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An Antidote to Chaos
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos © 2018 Jordan Peterson 402 pages Life is pain. We can surrender to it — or we can make it meaningful. Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson here offers a prescription to those facing … Continue reading
Tornadoes, the stars, and eternity
I aim to minimize the amount of un-commented-on books in 2020, so here follows some housekeeping! Back in February, I read Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather. It opened with the importance of climate to the various … Continue reading
What Pastors Wish Their Church Members Knew
What Pastors Wish Their Church Members Knew: Helping People Understand and Appreciate their Leaders © 2009 177 pages What Pastors Wish Their Church Members Knew reviews the results of a survey distributed to hundreds of Protestant, evangelical pastors, to … Continue reading
The Lost Gospel of Mary
The Lost Gospel of Mary: The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts © 2012 Frederica Mathewes-Green 178 pages We are presently in the season of Advent, an ideal time to take a look at a question of mine: … Continue reading
Of stars and saints
Two also-reads in recent weeks have been Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Solar System and Kevin Vost’s 12 Life Lessons from St. Augustine. I’m familiar with Cox from his many appearances in Symphony of Science videos (a YouTube series in … Continue reading
A Plain Life
A Plain Life: Walking my Belief © 1998 Scott Savage 224 pages You have to be careful about working in a library. Sometimes books change your life. Scott Savage and his wife were both librarians whose environmental interests put them … Continue reading
Welcome to the Orthodox Church
Welcome to the Orthodox Church © 2015 Fredrica Mathews-Green 384 pages What it means to be liturgical can’t be encapsulated in a creed; liturgy has to be practiced, experienced. In Welcome to Orthodoxy, FMG creates a fictional Orthodox parish and … Continue reading
My Life with the Saints
My Life with the Saints© 2007 James Martin, SJ414 pages The church I grew up in consistently referred to Rome as the whore of Babylon, so needless to say I didn’t learn anything about saints. I knew Biblical personalities, sure, … Continue reading
The Benedict Option
The Benedict Option © 2017 Rod Dreher 269 pages Christendom has fallen; long live Christendom. In The Benedict Option, Rob Dreher argues that the Christian church in the United States is at a crisis point and must now think … Continue reading
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