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Refreshing Summer Reading
I’ve been reading two books over the last few months [I tend to snack my way through several books at once so it takes a while.] One is The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy...
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Bedtime snacks: A taste of Miracles
I think a well-balanced reading diet should include at least one serving from the C.S. Lewis category a year. But within the Lewis canon, there are some fun books, some clever books, and some...
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One for the road
I’ve been away from home these past few weeks, visiting my other nonheavenly home. Whenever I travel, I like to take one of the devotional guides in Selwyn Hughes’ Every Day with Jesus collection. It’s...
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A Tale of Two Novels: Part One
This picture of my bedside reading may give you an overly optimistic impression of my reading habits. It might lead you to think that every night before going to sleep I take one of these books and...
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A Tale of Two Novels: Part Two
Now for a look at the skiff. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker is a completely different reading experience from I Know This Much Is True. For starters, it’s 130 pages with footnotes [yes, footnotes in...
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The Six-month Prayer Challenge
[we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this special post] I was all set to blog about one of my bedtime snack books.* Then I started reading If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve...
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Ask whatever: Month four of the six-month prayer challenge
I’m halfway through the six-month prayer challenge and my touchstone has been: “If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ASK whatever you wish and it will be given to you. This is to My Father’s...
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Bedtime Snacks: Isobel Kuhn Omnibus
I live in a place where there are only two English-language bookstores within shopping distance. One is the size of a one car garage, the other is an hour and a half away. So in the ex-pat community,...
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Fruit to go
About a month ago, I came to the end of my six month prayer challenge. It was a great experience for me and I plan to post more about it in the future, especially because I’m not really ‘finished’. I’m...
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Bedtime Snacks: Outliers
Outlier: something that lies outside the statistical norm. Outliers is one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read in a while, mainly because Malcolm Gladwell overthrows many of our common...
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Bedtime Snacks: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years–Take two on life as story
I loved Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz but frankly five years later, I can’t remember much of what it was about–just that it was a great ride of a read. However, five years from now, I’ll remember what...
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Bedtime Snacks: Three for a rainy day
There are times when you can’t get out into nature or even watch Planet Earth. Then a book about nature may be the next best thing. So here are my top three nature books to bring to a windowless prison...
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The problem with being a Christian
I’m currently reading Timothy Keller’s The Prodigal God, one of the most profound books I’ve read in a while. He takes the parable of the prodigal son but spends as much time [if not more] on the elder...
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Bedtime Snacks: Redeemed
“I myself can never get enough of other people’s personal essays and memoirs. I think we’re all hungry for stories, hungry to make sense of the world, hungry to know we’re not alone. And we’re all...
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Bedtime Snacks: Life Together
I’m nibbling my way through Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, another short but pungent book. In the early 1930s Bonhoeffer helped create the Confessing Church which opposed the Nazi regime. As...
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More on being beloved
This past week, I faced taking a driving exam. I can’t remember the last time I took a test that really counted, the kind that affects your future. It was probably 25 years ago when I applied for a job...
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Bedtime Snack: Objects of His Affection
The death of Jesus allows us to look into our Judge’s face and see a Bridegroom. This is the heart of the good news, the gospel: Jesus has been punished for our sins so that the floodgate of God’s...
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Bedtime Snacks: The Supper of the Lamb
Once upon a time, before food blogs and before the Food Network–but not before Julia Child–there was an Episcopal priest by the name of Robert Farrar Capon [Don't ask me why he went by three names....
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Caleb’s Crew: Granny Brand or Life begins again at 70
Many years ago, I read two books by Dr Paul Brand, co-authored with Philip Yancey, In His Image,and Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Both books draw upon lessons Brand learned in his pioneering work...
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Summer reading picks for staying at the table
Here are some memoirs by fellow travelers that I’ve enjoyed this past year: The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail by Margot Starbuck A mediation on the fatherhood of...
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