In case you are wondering (and are a facebook or twitter friend) yesterday’s announcement of my wife’s pregnancy was real. So I am anticipating reading more books like this in the future. Until then I will leave it to people like James Matichuk at Thoughts, Prayers and Songs blog to write the reviews and make recommendations. In the … Read more
I almost picked up Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation and God to review when it came out last summer. But I had too many review books already and I decided to wait. It is currently on sale for $2.99 on kindle so I thought I would link to Englewood Review of Books review of it. I … Read more
AListOfBooks.com is a compilation of 13 ‘top 100 Books’ lists that have been combined and sorted into one master list. It has 623 different books and the ability to mark the books you have read. I scanned through the top 100 and had read 21. I find lists like this interesting, but not all that helpful as a … Read more
Since reading Matt Rddmond’s excellent book the God of the Mundane, I have been a subscriber to his blog. Today he posted a ‘non-review’ of Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor: A Memoir. If you are a pastor, or you are a lay person in leadership and work closely with a pastor, this is definitely in a handful of … Read more
I am still a few pages short of finishing Imagining the Kingdom. I will post my review next week. I am convinced that it is an important book for those that think about and plan both worship and spiritual development programs in the church. But it is not an easy book to read. I think … Read more
Slow Church Blog has a post (from the book Besides the Bible: 100 Books that Have, Should or Will Create Christian Culture) about Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece book Silence. It is Shusaku Endo’s birthday today, he would have been 90. I coincidentally picked up Silence yesterday to start reading today. Here is the opening of the … Read more
Lavonne Neff, a regular contributor at Christianity Today, has a very good interview with Rachel Marie Stone, author of the new Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food. Rachel Marie Stone is an interesting author. I have not read Eat With Joy, but I have been reading her blog lately and will probably read Eat … Read more
I am getting close to being finished with James KA Smith’s new book Imagining the Kingdom. I am both very impressed with the books and a little puzzled by it. It makes me want to go back and read the first book in the trilogy Desiring the Kingdom. James Merritt, a writer and pastor, has … Read more
I think about about how to properly share the idea that I wrestle out of books. So many books have good pieces that are mixed up in a bad book. And so many good books have bad pieces that in an otherwise good book. Sometimes it is just the audience is wrong for the … Read more
The Emerging Scholars Blog is doing a March Madness style tournament to determine the best Christian Book of All Time. Round one is over and there is a post detailing all the winners and losers. We have Bernard of Clairvaux losing decisively to CS Lewis and Rick Warren losing an even more lop-sided battle to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But other … Read more