I’m currently reading The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin Jr. This is an amazing book so far.
Incidentally, I just finished Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and I’m hoping to have a review up by later in the week.
I’m currently reading The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin Jr. This is an amazing book so far.
Incidentally, I just finished Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and I’m hoping to have a review up by later in the week.
ChristianMingle.com’s advertising… ugh. This, along with a smiling couple, was the entirety of the content of one of their ads:
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. —Psalm 37:4.
There are so many things wrong with this. So many that I don’t even have words for it, at least at the moment. (That, and I need to get out the door if I’m going to finish my 13-mile run before dinner.) But there will be words on this one. Oh, yes.
Sometimes, the questions we ask indicate as much about us as our response to the answers we receive. For example, I was discussing a controversial theological point with someone recently, and at one point in the conversation, she quite innocuously asked a question starting, “But do you feel that…”
The phrasing caught my attention. It is common enough, at least in the circles I run in. People often speak of what they feel to be true in a given area. In one sense, the phrase is harmless enough: people really mean, “This is what I believe.” In another sense, though, it should give us pause Read on, intrepid explorer →
I’m preparing for tomorrow night’s Bible study, and ran smack dab into this incredibly powerful phrase. I have quoted the phrase in context – where, frankly, I think it’s even more amazing than it would be standing alone – and bolded it so you’ll see what amazes me:
In addition to posting reviews of Christian books, it is my intent to post a review or response of every book that I read for the first time henceforth. As I noted in my launch post, I think it will be helpful to me in processing the contents of the books I read.
One consequence of this will be my reviewing a great number of books that are not explicitly Christian. I think these may actually prove to be the more interesting reviews and responses in some ways, as they will afford an opportunity to think more critically and synthetically about the world. It is an unfortunate reality that most (modern) Christian books are not nearly as penetratingly engaging with the world as they should be, and so I often find that the books that challenge me most to think Christianly about the world are, while not usually opposed to Christianity, also often rather disinterested in it.
In any case, I look forward to seeing what I learn from reviewing non-theological books from an explicitly (and, hopefully, robustly) theological framework. I expect the first such volume I respond to to be Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, which I hope to finish within the next week or so.
As I launch a new theology blog, I thought it might be helpful to outline (for myself as well as my at least initially few readers) my approach here. I aim to write broadly, addressing a wide number of topics here, but they will always be viewed through the lens of the glory of God in Christ – a phrase from Thomas Schreiner I am increasingly fond of. Read on, intrepid explorer →