Christianity
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Mudhouse Sabbath
Yesterday in Sunday school, my friend Polly extracted some excerpts from the chapter in this book about mourning. A young mother known to many people at church had died earlier in the week…
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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead performs a necessary surgery for me. It peels back layers of resignation and hopelessness and returns me to the true gospel, the true good news: Jesus came to give us…
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Girl Meets God
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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Dark Night of the Soul
Ever wondered how a holy, infinite God accommodates Himself to a human heart? Ever feel that the evangelical language for talking about it is formulaic or vague? Ever wonder if there’s something wrong…
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The Calvary Road
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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The Irrational Season
I picked up The Irrational Season on a whim off the library shelf, and it’s been a wonderful read for me. In fact, I’m going to have to purchase a copy so that…
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Art Lesson
I’m really enjoying Madeleine L’Engle’s The Irrational Season, and trying not to read it too quickly. Today I read her commentary on some works of art. L’Engle writes, “Christian graphic art has often…
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Sweet solitude
My pastor has been preaching a series on knowing God. Last Sunday he made reference to a book called Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas. I haven’t read it, but I’m going to for…
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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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Miracles
The next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole thing to the Professor. “He’ll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong with Lu,” said…