How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church , C. Christopher Smith, Brazos Press, 2019, 222 pages. The Apostle Paul uses a picture of the human body to describe the Body of Christ. Our bodies are interconnected in ways that we understand and ways that are still a mystery. The brain is the control center. Yet there is a interdependence among the members and the need for some of the lowliest and smallest parts. This interdependence is seen in how the physical body communicates within itself. How the Body of Christ Talks by Christopher Smith uses this same analogy to highlight the importance of conversations within the church. As believers, our relationships are important. While those connections are the result of our union with Christ and inclusion in the church universal, they need to be strengthened and maintained in the church local. Just as our physical body needs the flow of chemical messages from one part to another to flourish, ...