I finished McLaren’s new book a couple of weeks ago. As usual, I enjoyed the way he challenged the norm and opened up new ways of looking at a subject. In this case, the norm he’s challenging is the way we Christians typically use the concept of “hell” in our evangelism and discipleship. Most of […]

Here’s a good summary of Wright’s mammoth book on Resurrection. There are many other things to say about Jesus? resurrection. But, as far as I am concerned, the historian may and must say that all other explanations for why Christianity arose, and why it took the shape it did, are far less convincing as historical […]

In Love Is the Killer App : How to Win Business and Influence Friends Tim Sanders evangelizes us on the idea that “love” is a point of differeniation in business and in life. He calls us all to be “lovecats.” He uses Meyeroff’s definition of love, “Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of […]

The Garnett Equipping Team has been working through Leadership Wisdom from Unlikely Voices: People of Yesterday Speak to Leaders of Today and we’re thoroughly enjoying it. At first glance, I thought it was going to be another “same content, but with much cooler emerging jargon” treatise on leadership for the next generation, but as we’ve […]

I’ve started listening to an Alexander Hamilton biography. Early on Chernow states that Hamilton was the most influential founding father never elected president and far more influential than many that were. What was so special about him? I’m not sure yet. I’m only about three hours into a 36 hour recording.

While running this evening I finished listening to His Excellency by Joseph Ellis. Ellis starts his book out by asking the question: why did all the other Founding Fathers–men like Adams, Jefferson, Hamiliton, Madison, and even Franklin–consider Washington to be “The Man?” His answer: he was tall, he was strong, he possessed incredible self-restraint, and […]