How to Think
How to Think: A Survival Guide For a World at Odds By Alan Jacobs New York: Currency, 2017 –Review by Landrum P. Leavell III, Th.D. How many times have we heard someone or ourselves ask the question, “What were you thinking?” Alan Jacobs believes...
The Prodigal Prophet
— The Prodigal Prophet — Jonah and the Mystery of God’s Mercy by Timothy Keller –Review by Teri Hyrkas “You cannot conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.” Graham Greene from Brighton...
Words at the Threshold
Words at the Threshold Lisa Smartt –Review by Vern Hyndman “Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We’re Nearing Death” is a book that Lisa Smartt wrote while finding her way through the grief of her father’s death. For a book that deals with the...
Letters From the Desert
Letters From the Desert Carlo Carretto –Review by Landrum P. Leavell III, Th.D. Last year, in another book I came across the name and a few quotes from this man about whom I’d never heard. I read his book, The God Who Comes. I need to read Catholic...