I am a big fan of Orson Scott Card (and Stefan Rudnicki, who reads all of Orson Scott Card’s audiobooks). I have read (or listened to) almost all of Orson Scott Card’s books. My favorites are the Ender’s Game series and the two single books Pastwatch (a retelling of the Christopher Columbus story) and Enchantment (a … Read more
This is the second of Scott Nicolson’s books I have read (my review of Skull Ring). The Red Church is a similarly creepy book. The story centers around a red church that has been abandoned. The rural community says it is haunted by the ghost of a preacher that was hung by his congregation for … Read more
I have followed the debate over the Emerging church for quite a while. In general I have agreed with many of the criticisms that the Emerging church has had with the traditional church, but I have not always agreed with the resulting prescriptions of where to go after the criticism. Jim Belcher, it seems, wrote … Read more
In many ways I am of the mind that this book probably did not need to be written. It is not that I do not think that we pay enough attention to Christ. But that I am not sure that another book about Christ and the problem of not paying attention to Christ really will … Read more
The Never War is the third in the Pendragon series (not the Steven Lawhead Pendragon Series). I liked the first book (it was free on Audible) and was pretty blah about the second. I would have stopped after the second, but there was a sale and it was only $5 and you know how … Read more
Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library was offered free on kindle very briefly a few weeks ago. So briefly that I assume it was a pricing mistake, not a promotional offer. But I thought it was a good book to be my first full book on my ipad. I have blogged about the ipad … Read more
Takeaway: People make bad decisions, Ariely shows us why. Predictably Irrational is all about behavioral economics. Dan Ariely, unlike most economists does not believe that people are essentially rational and able to weigh the pros and cons of decisions and make perfectly rational market-based decisions. Instead the basic thesis of this book is that people are … Read more
Divine Commodity is a provocative book. Probably the most provocative I have read since Flickering Pixels. (I ended up writing five blog posts about Flickering Pixels because it was so provocative. This is the last post with links to the others.) In many ways it is hard to argue with the basic idea that the … Read more
The idea of Follow Me to Freedom is that in order to be a good leader, you first have to be a good follower (of Christ). This book is an attempt to teach us about “followership” as Shane Claiborne puts it. I listened to this on audiobook. It is presented as a conversation format, alternating … Read more
Foster is known for a several classic Christian books, Celebration of Discipline and Prayer. These are both classics for a reason. I have also previously read his Freedom of Simplicity. This is not the classic that the first two are, but it is a good and useful in Foster’s attempt at drawing the church together. The … Read more