I suppose it would be possible to over emphasize the first few chapters of Genesis, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in North American Christianity. These few chapters are the foundation that a Christian way of seeing life and creation are built on, and I don’t think we look at them enough. They [...]
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I have a waning interest in what has often been called apologetics — books written to equip a Christian to at best explain, at worst defend, why it is okay for them to believe what they do. Often it feels like books like these cause a Christian to build an aresenal to protect their views [...]
Aside from some of the publisher’s reviews I’ve been doing, I’ve not posted must about some of my recent reading. Here are a few books that I’ve read in the last few months that stand out:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
The choices we make as individuals have a greater [...]
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a kid. In the winter’s they lived in the same town in Colorado. In the summer, they’d go to their cabin in the Rockies, and I spent a week or two there every summer.
My grandma was a librarian, so if there is one thing I [...]
I’ve read a respectable chunk of NT Wright’s work, and he takes up more space on my bookshelf than any other author. It’s not often that I read one of his books and am left wanting. But after reading Justification, that’s where I found myself.
That’s not to say that Justification isn’t a good book. Like [...]
I few years ago, I blogged about LibraryThing. It’s a site designed to share and network your book library with others.
For some reason I can’t fully explain, I abandoned updating LibraryThing in the last year and became an active user on goodreads. I think it is because goodreads let’s me feel more connected and up [...]
In recent years, I’ve had the opportunity to develop friendships with three different men who were trying to navigate the tension between what it meant to be gay and Christian. Each was at a different place in his story when I first got befriended him, but each story had one thing in common…living between the [...]
IVP has been kind enough to allow me to pick out some of their recent releases for review. I look forward to reading the books that caught my attention and sharing them with you here in the months to come. First up is a book called Deepest Differences: A Christian-Atheist Dialogue, by James Sire, and [...]
It’s as if Rodney Stark wrote The Rise of Christianity with me in mind. The subject matter of Christianity, and the historical and analytical presentation style are all right up my alley. Through the perspective of a sociologist, Stark dug through the first 300 years of Christianity to see what it was that caused Christianity [...]
Makoto Fujimura is a contemporary artist whose home and studio are near Ground Zero. Out of a response to the attacks on 9/11, he began to set aside time every Saturday to write. This was a time to process and reflect on the emotions and changes in his life and city. The result of these [...]
I received a review copy of A New Kind of Conversation. The subtitle is Blogging Toward a Postmodern Faith. My first impression was that this was a book about blogging, and how this online conversation is helping shape postmodern faith. I thought it might be interesting. But on a closer look, I realized it [...]
I’m not sure if I would have read On the Side of the Angels, by Joseph D’Souza and Benedict Rogers, if I hadn’t been sent a review copy. Heck…I hadn’t even heard of it. After reading it, I hope that neither of those statements will be true for others.
The subtitle is Justice, Human Rights and [...]
After about six people had recommended it, I finally got around to reading TrueFaced. To be honest with you (that is what this book is about, after all), I bought the book two years ago, after about four different friends had recommended it. So it sat on my to-read shelf for two years. And since [...]
