The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson is a widely known and lauded author. She has won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005), an Orange Prize for Fiction (2009), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2004, 2014), and The...
Two Vintage Novels for Summer Reading Bob Trube recently had an outstanding column at his blog, BobOnBooks.com. His entry was called Bookstore Browsing for Beginners. Bob listed seven excellent suggestions designated for beginning book browsers, but I think they are...
Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times by Os Guinness Reading Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times (2014, InterVarsity Press), by author and social critic Os Guinness, is like eating a chili pepper-laced chocolate bar. There...
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach “Treat the living as though they were dying, and the dead as though they were alive.” Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (W. W....
Giving Blood A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching by Leonard Sweet “There’s no blood on the pulpit this morning.” This is what Mabel Boggs Sweet, mother of Leonard Sweet — the author of Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching (Zondervan,2014)– would...
Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by Makoto Fujimura The role of a gifted artist with an educator’s skill and a unique understanding of a difficult subject is the mantle that Makoto Fujimura has assumed in writing the book Silence and Beauty:...
