The staff is going to start reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together starting today at our monthly Creative Team meeting. Life Together is a fascinating book. Bonhoeffer, who was a German theologian before and during WWII, wrote this about his time living in community at an underground seminary in Finkenwalde. Hitler’s government had shut down all […]
Here is an amazing book that I just finished reading through. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. It not only tells the dark story of King Leopold’s Congo, but the beginning of the modern human rights movement, which developed in the face of it. It is a fascinating
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So all the holiday free time gave me a chance to finish this 700 page whopper of a history of Africa. Martin Meredith’s book is amazingly readable for tackling such a huge topic and weaving together so many threads. I highly recommend it (if you have time for 700 pages), but be careful — it’s
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I had someone ask me today what I’m currently reading… It’s an odd mix of books, but here’s what I’m working on. Sea of Faith: Islam & Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen O’Shea Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by
Speaking of “The Lost Gospels,” there is a fantastic little book by a well studied Christian scholar named Darrell Bock entitled, The Missing Gospels. I highly recommend it if anyone is interested in learning more about this issue. http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Gospels-Unearthing-Alternative-Christianities/dp/0785212949/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0901746-8676156?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183684994&sr=8-1
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We kick off the series on the Book of James at Antioch tomorrow and one of the things that I’m going to do is recommend that the church read John Piper’s Desiring God through the series and throughout the summer. It’s as foundational a book as I’ve ever come across… One of those that changes
I used to be really into personality tests. I have a pretty intuitive big picture personality so finding out why people are the way they are was lots of fun for me. (Of course, nobody likes it if you put them in a box so I always ran into trouble when analyzing people!!) Anyway, the
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I’ve been dealing with a lot of ministry stuff lately that partly stems from the church in America’s under-emphasis on discipleship and true transformation. As I sat in my office this morning and reflected on all this I picked up a book that I read sometime ago and thought, “Gee, this is what people ought
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I’m going back over the book Tipping Point. It usually takes quite a bit for me to go back to a book, but I really enjoyed this one!! Besides, this time I’m doing it on audio CD (the lazy man’s way to take in a book). Malcolm Gladwell’s book is right up the
John Piper, more than any other person (besides C.S. Lewis), has shaped my life and thinking. I remember driving around Whittier, California during seminary listening to his tapes on headphones (that is until a sheriff in my church threatened me because headphones in cars are illegal, but that’s another story :) One of the sermon
