I have read fairly widely around various issues of race, but certainly, there are far more books that I have not read than that I have read. So a book not listed here is likely not here because I have not read it or haven’t written about them. I fully realize that this is an … Read more
I have read fairly widely around various issues of race, but certainly, there are far more books that I have not read than that I have read. So a book not listed here is likely not here because I have not read it or haven’t written about them. I fully realize that this is an … Read more
Summary: A strong woman who was Mrs King, but also Coretta. There were two main reasons I picked up this memoir. First, I read/heard/saw somewhere an excerpt of My Life, My Love, My Legacy that included a section about Martin Luther King Jr not allowing Coretta to meet JFK after the March on Washington. A … Read more
Summary: An evangelical historian approaches why so many Evangelicals voted for Trump. I am a fan of the John Fea’s history podcast, The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I do not remember how I ran across it, but I have listened to it almost from the very beginning. Some of the ideas of Believe Me … Read more
Summary: Part biography, part intellectual history. I have a lot of theological disagreements with Tim Keller even as I respect him and think the evangelical world would be much better off if there were more people like him. That is not to start with outlining of my disagreements, but to frame my thoughts here as … Read more
Takeaway: One of the most effective books for discussion my book group has had. Last fall the book group I have been leading for about six years read The Gospel According to Baldwin. It was an odd choice for the group because other than myself, no one has ever read James Baldwin and only two … Read more
Summary: An exploration of the thought of Dorothy Sayers. I picked up Subversive because it was free to me as part of the Audible Plus Catalogue (books that Audible subscribers can borrow without additional cost other than the membership.) I have been slowly working through a couple of books by Sayers a year over the … Read more
Summary: A long lecture or short book on ways to prevent tyranny based on 20th-century history. I have looked at but not read On Tyranny several times. It came out about six years ago. But I decided to pick it up after a tweet from Samuel Perry about regularly rereading it and teaching it. I … Read more
Summary: Democracy in Black addresses the ‘values gap’ between the claimed idealism of equity and democracy and the reality of history. One of the problems with many White people in thinking about issues of race is that Black and other racial groups are still “˜other’. That “˜other’-ness is otherness in part because of the assumption … Read more
Takeaway: Very few take Jesus seriously when he about having a different type of kingdom. As American Christians have started looking again at their eschatology (view of the end times) and moving away from dispensationalism, more Christians are starting to see that the implications of their eschatology affect many areas of their Christian life. For … Read more