Category: book
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Vacation Reading
One of the pre-vacation rituals in our home involves careful selection of the books which will accompany us. Here is my stack for our upcoming time away. From the top: Concerning the Inner Life by Evelyn Underhill (dipping into this one again); The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer (nearing the end); The Gift…
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On the Night Stand
Later this summer our family is taking a week vacation where our primary activities will be cooking, napping and reading. I’m interested in what books you’d recommend I bring; I’m especially interested in fiction as I read far too few novels. I’m coming to the end of Manning Marble’s fantastic new biography of Malcolm X. …
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Clouds of Witnesses
My review of Clouds of Witnesses by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom has been posted on Out of Ur. I’m seated at the front of a university lecture hall with representatives of five other religious traditions. Listening intently to the brief descriptions of our faiths are seventy undergraduate and graduate students, many hailing from other…
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In Praise of (Real) Books
Does the book have a future? You know, books made of paper with pages that must be turned. I’m genuinely unsure of the answer, though the way bookstores are closing and digital book sales are increasing make me wonder. As an unabashed lover of books – not simply the words but the physicality of covers…
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One.Life
It’s unlikely that you are the intended reader of Scot McKnight’s latest book, One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read it. Who is the book for? While he never says it, the presence of the hundreds of undergraduate students- Christian and not- he has taught over the years lurk in…
David W. Swanson 