Nonfiction
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Before the Throne
Lately I’ve been struggling with discouragement as a mother. My girls are wonderful, such gifted and beautiful little girls. They (like my husband) challenge me to come out of myself and engage more…
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Declaration of Independence and Other Documents
A new president is about to take office, and these are momentous days in the nation and in the world. My reading year concludes with this little gem, The Declaration of Independence and…
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Epicenter
Epicenter is this month’s selection for the book club I belong to. I was curious to read it, because recently the subject of the Middle East has come up several times in conversations,…
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How Long, Lord?
I’ve been reading through — or more like plodding through — my Bible since last year some time. Isaiah is as far as I’ve gotten. It’s been a long time since I felt…
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The Weight of Glory
The Weight of Glory is a collection of speeches C.S. Lewis gave on different topics, for different occasions. It was my first experience of reading Lewis this way, rather than in a sustained…
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The Way of Ignorance
In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. (T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”) So reads the passage from which Wendell…
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Tyrannical Consistency
“Its not just absolute power that the founders sought to guard against,” Mr. Obama writes. “Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth — the…
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To be Told: Thoughts on “co-authorship”
Everyone has a story. Put another way, everyone’s life is a story. But most people don’t know how to read their life in a way that reveals their story… It is the force…
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Sacred Journey II
I’ve finished Buechner’s Sacred Journey. Very thought-provoking. I love his notion of “incarnational” divine speech. Words have their limitations. I agree that we are hasty to interpret God’s meaning — or “what he’s saying”…
