Christianity
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On the Incarnation
I show my ignorance of church history when I admit that I first heard of this book quite recently through Deb on the Run. I can’t fully regret the ignorance that kept it…
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Christian History Made Easy
There’s an unintentional (I think) irony in this title, because there’s nothing “easy” about this whirlwind voyage through church history. “Simplified” might be a better word. Written for those interested in getting a…
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Hiding from Love
I’ve been taking my time with Hiding from Love. Written by one of the authors of Boundaries, it explores the intricacies of human personality from a biblical perspective, focusing on the ways we…
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Orthodoxy
I finished Chesterton’s autobiographical book Orthodoxy a few days ago. I loved it and will probably read it again. We’ve all seen Chesterton quotes floating around here and there, and they’re always pithy…
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A larger and truer confession
Someone forwarded Ben Stein’s CBS Sunday Morning “Confession” to me by email. Mr. Stein uses the following exchange as a springboard for discussing God’s alleged departure from America: Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed…
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Recently, a few friends and I realized that though we all possessed this book, none of us had read it. We’d felt that we should read it, and perhaps had tried, but none…
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The Knowledge of the Holy
“Who made God?” I overheard my youngest daughter’s question from the other room. “No one,” my husband replied. “It’s a hard thing to understand. We’re so used to everything being made that we…
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The Divine Conspiracy
How do I talk about this book? Or maybe it’s more accurate to ask, how do I talk about anything but this book? It has a way of getting into your thought life…
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Diary of an Old Soul
I’ve been revisiting George MacDonald lately. I knew him first as the one whose Phantastes C.S. Lewis credited with “baptizing his imagination.” Then I explored some of his children’s books, and more recently…
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Dangerous Journey
“It seems just terrible that it doesn’t have a medal.” So said my 8-year-old, who prizes any book with an embossed gold medal on the cover, as we neared the end of this…