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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

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falling upward cover imageTakeaway: Maturing is not a straight line and it does not automatically come with growing old.

Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition (Kindle available now, paperback is a pre-order for April 19, 2011)

Today is my birthday so I thought it appropriate to read and review a book that is primarily about how to age better. I must admit I was a bit put off of this book when I first started. Rohr is a Catholic priest and it took a while for me to sink into his vocabulary and understand how he was using his words.

After I picked it up again a week or so later. I started to see a spirituality that was formed by story in a way somewhat akin to Donald Miller. The 30 page intro is rough going no matter how you look at it. But once you get to the early chapters where Rohr uses the story of Odyssius to explain his point I was hooked.

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Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson

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Takeaway: Spy Thrillers are about the chase. Purchase Links: Hardback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook Twice a Spy is a sequel to Once a Spy, one of my favorite books last year.  The basic premise is that Drummond Clark, a retired appliance salesman, with middle stages of early onset Alzheimer’s, is actually a super spy.  Charlie, his … Read more

The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark

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Takeaway: Openness to questioning your beliefs and understanding primarily is about relationship.  If we are unable to question, we are unable to build relationships with anyone that does not believe exactly as we do. Early in the book David Dark quotes Flannery O’Conner as saying, “The cultivation of skepticism is a sacred obligation because skepticism keeps … Read more

Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership by Tim Irwin

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Takeaway: Derailed is a decent business book on Character.  I support the idea of Nelson Free (buy a hardback, get the ebook and audiobook free) but in this case the audiobook isn’t that great. Purchase Links: Hardback, Kindle Edition, (don’t buy the audiobook) I am a fan of Thomas Nelson publishers and its CEO, Michael … Read more

Humanitarian Jesus by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson

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Takeaway: Evangelism and Social Justice are not antithetical. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook (Paperback is a great price) I started Humanitarian Jesus immediately after Jesus Manifesto (my review).  In most ways, Humanitarian Jesus was exactly what Jesus Manifesto should have been.  The first section of the book focused on a theology of Christ … Read more