Entries Categorized as 'Books'

Free Book Giveaway

October 9, 2007

Over the past couple years, publishers have started to realize the potential impact and persuasiveness of bloggers and what they review and recommend on their blogs. So, they started sending out books to bloggers to review. I certainly don’t mind the free books - and most of the time, they’re good books - but I’ve [...]

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The Year of Living Biblically: A Review

October 7, 2007

What happens when the editor at large of Esquire magazine and New York Times best-selling author decides to live according to the Bible for a year? A. J. Jacobs, author of “The Know It All,” shares with us his journey in his new book, “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow [...]

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God is Dead: A Review

October 5, 2007

Sarah and I went to Borders a few months ago for a date night. We each had 15 minutes to pick out 5 books we thought the other person might want - and then we were able to select which one we wanted and we got it. She picked out some good ones for me, [...]

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Questions to All Your Answers: A Review

September 10, 2007

Roger Olson’s Questions to All Your Answers is an argument for what he dubs “reflective Christianity” in place of “folk Christianity.” He writes, “Folk Christianity consists of a common stock of cute or comforting sayings and sweet aphorisms worked into and out of songs, poems and devotional books”. Olson, a professor of theology at Truett [...]

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Madeleine L’Engle Dies

September 8, 2007

Just heard that author Madeleine L’Engle died today in her home of natural causes [NY Times article here]. She wrote some of my favorite children’s books including A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and An Acceptable Time. If you haven’t read any of them, you really need to [...]

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The Watchmen: A Review

September 7, 2007

I was never into comics growing up, but in the past few years, I’ve become quite the fan of graphic novels. The first I read was Blankets by Craig Thompson (written about here and here). It was a very good book. The second I read was the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel, Maus. This 2-volume [...]

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Bookstore Added

September 4, 2007

I was playing around tonight with Amazon and decided to add a bookstore to this site. I’ll be putting books in there that I’ve found helpful or that I think you should read. I’ll also list the books I review in the bookstore, so if you want to buy any of them, you can do [...]

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Organic Community: A Review

September 4, 2007

I met Joe Myers a few years ago at an Emergent event and have enjoyed getting to know him since then, as we’ve run into each other a couple times and as I’ve had the chance to read both of his great books, The Search to Belong (short review here) and his newest book, Organic [...]

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The Shack: A Review

September 3, 2007

Eugene Peterson describes William Young’s “The Shack” [website here] as a book that “has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good!” Now, it’s been a few years since I’ve read “Pilgrim’s Progress” but unfortunately I don’t think I can say the same. It’s been [...]

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The Illumined Heart: A Review

August 30, 2007

Frederica Matthewes-Green’s new book, “The Illumined Heart: Capture the Vibrant Faith of Ancient Christians” is a very short exposition on the faith of early Christians and what we as “modern” Christians can learn from them. Frederica Matthewes-Green converted to Orthodoxy a few years ago, and that is important to know in reading her understanding of [...]

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