Monthly Archives: July 2008

Wordle of the Day: Ouch!
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Posted on July 30, 2008 by

I’ve wasted far too much time over at Wordle. For people in love with words, it’s a gripping addiction! Wendell Berry poems look great as wordles. So do e e cummings poems. So do Bible verses. So do… well, enough said. But as I was playing around I also thought of this: out of the abundance … Continue reading →

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The Shaping of a Christian Family
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Posted on July 28, 2008 by

Few books make me weep, but this one by Elisabeth Elliot brought me to tears more than once. This level of emotion was highly impractical, as I read most of it wedged tightly between other mothers on the bench at my daughters’ swimming lessons last week. Elliot, writer of Through Gates of Splendor, describes in this book the home she … Continue reading →

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4 rivers and a lake
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by

I’ve found this overview by Scot McKnight very helpful in getting a sense of what the emerging movement is about. McKnight argues that it’s not “a theological confession nor an epistemological movement but an ecclesiological movement. It’s about how to ‘do church’ in our age.” He starts by critiquing some misconceptions in D.A. Carson’s book Becoming Conversant with the Emerging … Continue reading →

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Blue Like Jazz
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by

This book is a bestseller, and was recommended to me awhile back. Then more recently I read a few reviews that piqued my interest further. I wanted to know what the controversy was about. It was an effort to make myself finish it. The word that kept running through my mind was, “callow.” Once when I … Continue reading →

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To Stay Alive: Pondering War
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Posted on July 16, 2008 by

I’ve gotten a little off track in this blog lately. When I started blogging, it was partly to wrestle with things — books, ideas, life. The “books” category has turned into me writing a review of everything I read. Nothing wrong with that, except that it becomes kind of formulaic. This book doesn’t really permit … Continue reading →

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