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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2021
- ISSN
- 0003-3286
- eISSN
- 2163-6214
- DOI
- 10.1177/0003328621992697
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews 87 Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink. By Tim Schenck. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2019. 230 pp. $18.99 (pbk). Sometimes it’s good to curl up with a good book and a good cup of coffee. Sometimes it’s even better to curl up with a good book about a good cup of coffee. Tim Schenck’s Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink provides the means to do just that. Written in an easy reading style, Holy Grounds is part history, part theology, and part social science, as Schenck traces the sometimes uneasy relationship between coffee and religion tracing back over the past six hundred years. In its truest sense, Holy Grounds is an evangelical tool to introduce people outside the Christian orbit into a dialogue with a “kinder and gentler” Christianity than many might expect. Referencing one of his coffee mentors, Bob Weeks of Redeye Roasters in Hingham, Massachusetts, Schenck writes, “We’re both evangelists in a way: he spreads the message of good coffee, and I share the good news of Jesus” (p. 8). Aimed at the casual Christian and the coffee-loving wonderer, the
Journal
Anglican Theological Review – SAGE
Published: Mar 24, 2021