Summary: At 87 years old, the message John Perkins will be focusing on the rest of his life is the importance of racial reconciliation within the church. One Blood is John Perkins’ last book. So I read it conscious of several of several others books that I have read that were consciously the last books … Read more
Summary: Sociological look at why Evangelicals are still divided racially. Divided by Faith is not a new book; it is nearly 20 years old at this point, and I have meant to read it for years. It is consistently the first book recommended to White Evangelicals seeking to explore racial issues, particularly within the Christian … Read more
Summary: Graphic adaptation of the best of Octavia Butler’s books. Over the past couple years I have begun to appreciate the art and promise of the graphic novel. Not as a “˜children’s version’ but as something that can be a true art form to itself. I do not think that John Lewis’ memoir in the … Read more
Summary: Loosely structured as a sermon which calls White Christian America to repentance and change. After reading James Baldwin’s Notes on a Native Son I decided to look for a modern author’s take and found Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. I was so impressed that I immediately picked … Read more
This is my annual best of 2016 list. (Way late I know.) This is my list of the books that at the end of the year I still think about. They are not all from 2016 (most are not) and they may not be the “˜best’ books that I have read. Some years my best … Read more
Summary: A WWII soldier tells his story. As I have said with most of the graphic novels I have read this year, Alan’s War was a recommendation from Seth Hahne (check out his blog Good Ok Bad). I picked it up based on my enjoyment of graphic novel as history book in the March trilogy. … Read more
Summary: Funny, but read more like a series of jokes than a cohesive book. I am not sure who introduced me to Jim Gaffigan, but I thank whoever it was. I have a tendency to be a bit overly serious and so I have to be intentional about adding humor into my world. Jim Gaffigan … Read more
Summary: A mediocre biography of a formative figure in the history of journalism. I have been keeping my New Year’s resolution of not buying more than one book a month to try and whittle down my list of books that I have already purchased but not read. But I have also been working through library … Read more
Summary: Fascinating and in depth look at a man that changed TV. Everyone knows that Jim Henson was the creator of the muppets and was instrumental in the creation of Sesame Street. But that is really where my knowledge of Henson stopped. My shortest review of this book is that if you like Steve Job biography … Read more
On twitter I was asked about the likelihood of Amazon getting an Oyster-like feature (all you can read ebooks for a monthly fee.) I think the ‘all you can read’ system, like Oyster, has a pretty low chance of ever being offered on Amazon. But Amazon does have the Amazon Prime Lending Library. (Sometime referred to … Read more