Christianity
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Heritage
Yesterday, my mother-in-law told me that she had led her father to the Lord. He had left his wife and family many years ago, when she and her brother and sisters were all…
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Knowing Christ Today
Do you think of religion as based on knowledge? Or do you find other words — profession, belief, commitment — more fitting to define its province? In Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can…
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Hinds’ Feet On High Places
Hinds’ Feet On High Places is a book that the worship pastor at our former church referred to often. I had tried to read it in college without much success, but he raised…
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The Prodigal God (and golden eggs)
Timothy Keller’s Prodigal God is a short book in which Keller uses the parable of the prodigal son as a framework for discussing two different types of lost souls: the profligate (the younger…
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A Landscape with Dragons
I didn’t like this book very much. At first, I thought I would. It seemed to promise a systematic look at fantasy stories. But ultimately A Landscape with Dragons is too alarmist for…
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The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place is the story of Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch woman best known as a participant in the Dutch underground during the second world war whose home had a hidden room…
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Traveling Mercies
I picked up Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith at the Friends of the Library Book Sale a few weeks ago. It sounded familiar, though I’m not sure where I’d heard…
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Hearing God
Dallas Willard’s Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God is less a how-to book than a renovation of our commonly accepted ideas about prayer. Quietly but assuredly, it confronts the skepticism that…
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10 Reasons to Pray
From time to time, I’ve written posts that ask questions about prayer. I thought that for once I’d set aside my reflexively speculative turn of mind, and write an unabashedly affirmative and practical…
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A Grief Observed
I’m not sure why I picked this book up just now. The ideal time to experience it would probably be in the midst of loss. Or maybe I would find it annoying then.…