Summary: Tippett shares what she has learned about wisdom and life from her many interviews from her shows On Being and Speaking of Faith. I have been a fan of Krista Tippett for at least the last 10 years. She is a good interviewer and she has a real interest in pay attention to both … Read more
Summary: An extended reflection on what it means to truly change through Christ’s power. Dallas Willard is one of the originators of the modern spiritual formation movement. Willard, and his protege, Richard Foster, have done much to refocus the Evangelical world on spiritual disciplines and intentional focus on spiritual growth. Renovation of the Heart is … Read more
Summary: A brief look at why Evangelicals should start looking to older forms of liturgy. I love my church. But I also have been exploring the liturgy of more sacramental traditions. I am attempting to regularly use the Book of Common Prayer devotionally. And I would love it if there was a local church that … Read more
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview and Cultural Formation by James KA Smith is $5.98 on kindle The New Testament: A Very Short Introduction by Luke Timothy Johnson for $2.60 Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is $0.52 The Lost World of Genesis One: The Ancient World and the … Read more
Reposting this 2013 review because the Kindle Edition is free In 1989 Greg Boyd was teaching Christian apologetics at Bethel University. He hadn’t discussed his Christian faith with his father much, if at all, since he’d last tried years before when he was in his late teens and recently converted. So he decided to try … Read more
Summary: We need to be pursuing eulogy virtues, not resume virtues. I like David Brooks. I don’t always agree with his politics, but he is largely a reasonable pundit, and even when I disagree, I understand his position. I liked his earlier book, Bobos in Paradise, but I have not gotten around to reading his … Read more
Summary: It is much easier reading about prayer than actually praying. I have read a ton of books on prayer. About a year ago, some book that I don’t remember suggested that we as Christians should stop reading about things we are not prepared to put into practice immediately (because it can inoculate us against … Read more
It always feels much harder to pick my favorite non-fiction books. I feel like I read a lot more non-fiction than fiction, but this year it was 73 fiction and 80 non-fiction, so very close. The difference is that non-fiction is primarily about ideas. So when I review non-fiction and talk about non-fiction I tend … Read more
Christianity Today released their Best Books of 2014 list. Like normal they have several categories and with a couple of ties, there are 23 books on the list. The book of the year is Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith by Jen Pollock Michel. It is one among several of this … Read more
Summary: How out we to live? What really exists? How to we Know? Very Short Introduction series has been pretty hit or miss, as are most short introductions. It is hard to introduce a subject that has thousands of books and thousands of professionals working in the areas. Philosophy is one of the better ones. … Read more