Nonfiction
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Sacred Journey I
I’ve just read the intro to this book by Frederich Buechner. He writes: Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose among us.…
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Ms. Nature: Reading Journal on ‘Miracles’
I’ve read a fair amount of nature writing. In much of it, Nature emerges as a living “entity,” vast, interrelated, wild, something we’re part of and should reverence. But nowhere have I read…
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The Helper
I read The Helper, by Catherine Marshall, when I was in college. Recently I picked it up again, and my husband decided to read it at the same time. Both of us are…
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The Doors of the Sea
David Bentley Hart’s The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? is a short (104 pages), challenging, in many ways satisfying theological discussion of the problem of evil. Recently I’ve read…
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The Shaping of a Christian Family
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…
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4 rivers and a lake
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…
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Blue Like Jazz
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…
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To Stay Alive: Pondering War
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…
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The Passionate Eye
The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega compiles poems, song lyrics, essays and stories written by this musician who’s been called “The minimalist poet of popular music.” There’s also a lengthy transcription…
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Mitchell’s Book of Job
I bought this book on the strength of the excerpts in Bill McKibben’s Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job and the Scale of Creation. The translation was such a rich, vivid rendering of the poetry…