Summary: What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the Relationship between faith and art? Walking on Water is a book that it is hard not to hear about if you are in circles where you interact with Christian who write professionally. I have been hearing about the book for years, but … Read more
Takeaway: People are complicated. Over the past several years since I have started thinking more about how to spiritual formation works, I have been intentionally reading memoirs or biographies of people with the express purpose of mining spiritual wisdom. Among the most helpful books last year was a quartet of memoirs from Madeleine L’Engle that … Read more
Summary: The last of the series of memoirs, about her husband and their marriage. Memoirs are about recounting and processing different of life. I appreciate that L’Engle has four different memoirs that are themed. I do not know of any other author that has done this. The first is about being a writer, mother, teacher … Read more
Summary: More wisdom, riffing off of the liturgical year or the Irrational Season. The Crosswick Journals are hard to describe. Each of the three that I have read has been very different. But the central reason for reading them is the same, wisdom. The first was mostly about writing and family and calling and art. … Read more
Summary: L’Engle’s writing style and ideas, but re-imagined as a young adult spy thriller. My wife and children were gone for the weekend so I spent most of the weekend either doing data entry with an audiobook in the background or walking/driving around playing Pokemon Go (with an audiobook in the background). I finished four … Read more
I am reposting this review from earlier this year because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $1.99. Summary: The wisdom comes with reflection by those that age. A month or so ago I was asking for a good biography or memoir from a pastor or theologian. I was thinking of something like Eugene Peterson’s … Read more
Summary: Camilla, now in her 60s, recounts her story to a questioning granddaughter. A Live Coal in the Sea is a sequel to Camilla, published 45 years later. That distance in time between the two books is nearly the distance in time within the books. Camilla was about a 15 year old growing up in … Read more
Summary: Thoughts and memories of Madeleine’s early life and family as she deals with her mother’s impending death. I have been really enjoying reading several of L’Engle’s books as they have been brought back to print. It is even better if you can pick them up cheaply. Today (not sure for how long) The Summer … Read more
Summary: Two short stories about Jesus as a child in Egypt. I have been reading Madeline L’Engle’s Crosswick Journals. These are a series of four memoirs that are thematic, but tracing a summer at her rural Connecticut home. She and her husband lived there for seven years early in their marriage before returning back to … Read more
Takeaway: On today’s after school special, Polly has to deal with serious things. I love Madeleine L’Engle’s writing. She takes young adults seriously, she writes about serious issues but she makes her characters real. So I pick up every one of L’Engle’s books when they come up for sale and I intentionally don’t read anything … Read more