Mother Tongue, Leonard Sweet
Mother Tongue, Leonard Sweet
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Mother Tongue
How Our Heritage Shapes Our Story

Author: Leonard Sweet

Narrator: Larry Wayne

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2017

Synopsis

No one shapes our heritage or affects our legacy like our mother.Most people know Leonard Sweet, one of the world’s most influential evangelicals, as a sharp cultural critic who helps us see how to get in front of the future rather than be bowled over by it. One of his greatest influences was his mother, a groundbreaking (and sometimes controversial) minister who defied convention while honoring tradition. In this exceptionally personal work, Len Sweet opens his mother’s memory box, and in the process he helps us all embrace the future with confidence while tethering us to a faith that transcends time. Through Len’s experience, we all will better understand and process how our own heritage affects our legacy.An ideal resource for mothers, adult children, and families seeking resources to set up their kids to flourish.

About Leonard Sweet

Leonard Sweet, PhD, holds the E. Stanley Jones chair at Drew University. Founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries, he also serves as a distinguished visiting professor at George Fox University. He is a leading figure in the emerging church movement and a major figure in discussions about Christianity’s transition to postmodernity. He is a popular speaker and has written numerous books, including Jesus Drives Me Crazy, SoulTsunami, SoulSalsa, and Carpe Mañana.

About Larry Wayne

Larry Wayne has been talking for a living for most of his life: over three decades in radio, with seventeen years with the K-LOVE network, all the while doing freelance voice projects through his professional home studio. He also has over twenty audiobooks to his credit. After surrendering his life to Christ, he married Dean (who told him about the Lord) thirty-five years ago. They have three adult children and seven grandkids.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Becky

Reading this book was like reading a perspective of my life. Not exact but close enough for my memories to come to surface. And perhaps the reason I enjoyed it so much. We really are influenced by our mothers.......more

Goodreads review by Skipr

Is Mother Tongue: How Our Heritage Shapes Our Story a biography? Family memoir? Devotional meditation? Whatever the category, Mother Tongue is an inspiring remembrance of an amazing woman and an honest and engrossing recollection of Leonard Sweet’s mid-20th century growing-up years in a poor family......more

Goodreads review by Tim

I enjoyed getting to hear the Story of Sweets upbringing by his mother and how she shaped his life. I was surprised to see how she appeared to be both very conservative (got a doctors note to excuse her children from dancing in school) and very progressive (thought the church should change service t......more

Goodreads review by Marie

I love most of Leonard's books. This one was Sweet. I wanted to meet his mama by the time I finished it. I thought maybe some of the chapters were a stretch but overall. Very. Good.......more

Quotes

“I found myself hanging on every word in this tenderly written and carefully crafted tribute to a remarkable woman whose humble life offers a delicious slice of Americana. This book is Leonard Sweet at his best” Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me

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