Nonfiction

  • Nonfiction

    Trailing Clouds of Glory

    / 15 June, 2009

    This week, browsing through the children’s section at the library, I saw Madeleine L’Engle’s name on this book I’d never heard of. Having just finished A Circle of Quiet, I was ready to…

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  • Biography

    A Circle of Quiet

    / 8 June, 2009

    A Circle of Quiet is one of Madeleine L’Engle’s Crosswicks Journals. It’s the third one I’ve read; the others are Two-Part Invention and The Irrational Season. I found this one to be an…

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  • Bible,  Poetry

    About Ezekiel

    / 31 May, 2009

    I’ve progressed into Ezekiel in my Bible-reading. These prophetic books frustrate any attempt by my analytical or “literary” mind to file them neatly away, but there are passages of great beauty and power.…

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  • Christianity,  Essays

    Girl Meets God

    / 23 May, 2009

    Girl Meets God is Lauren Winner’s spiritual memoir, subtitled On the Path to a Spiritual Life. I found myself contrasting it often to Blue Like Jazz, in which Donald Miller traces a similarly…

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  • Essays,  On Reading

    The Gutenberg Elegies

    / 6 May, 2009

    How shall we characterize [reading]? What is it that separate reading acts share that lies beyond the local construction of setting, characters, and narrative circumstances? Is there a fundamental and identifiably constant condition…

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  • Bible

    Finishing Isaiah

    / 7 April, 2009

    Isaiah is a difficult book for me. I love the story of King Hezekiah in the narrative chapters at the middle of the book. I love the passages where Isaiah’s vision soars and…

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  • Christianity,  Nonfiction

    The Calvary Road

    / 6 April, 2009

    Published in 1950, this little book has enjoyed a steady readership for almost 60 years. Just today, I discovered that it’s available in several locations online as an e-text. It’s been on my…

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