How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now by James KA Smith

Summary: Framed as three meditations on Ecclesiastes, Smith wants us to pay attention to our presence in time as part of an embrace of our humanity.  James KA Smith has greatly influenced me over the years. Desiring the Kingdom helped me think about how culture forms us and how we need to pay attention to cultural formation … Read more

The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic by James KA Smith

Summary: Maybe our need for interpretation and our finiteness as humans is a feature of our creation, not a consequence of the fall. The more I read James KA Smith, the more I appreciate his perspective. The Fall of Interpretation was Smith’s first book.  It was an adaptation of his Ph.D. dissertation that he lightly … Read more

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior

Summary: An exploration of how images and metaphors influence Evangelical thought (or don’t.) The Evangelical Imagination is the fourth of Karen Swallow Prior’s books I have read over the past 11 years, the sixth if you include the two classics in which she wrote the introduction. I have been in a private Facebook group and … Read more