Long Day

Sometimes I look at my calendar and wonder how everything ended up being scheduled on the same day.  Tomorrow I’ve got a couple of meetings, a conference call, a funeral, and a session of premarital counseling to do.  I know some people are energized by this kind of scheduling.  It completely drains me.  I like […]

Humble Apologetics

My post about John Stackhouse reminded me of a passage from his book Humble Apologetics that has stuck with me for several years.  It comes at the end of a chapter on conversion.  In the chapter, he deals with our role as evangelists/apologists in the conversion process and how we can best approach/treat people who […]

Favorite Books of 2006

In random order: How (Not) to Speak of God by Pete Rollins. I loved this book. Get it. Read it. Then read it again (You’ll probably need to). The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue. Engaging fantasy about the innocence of childhood and the loss thereof. Heaven is a Place on Earth by Michael Wittmer. Just […]

Seeking is Finding

From How (Not) to Speak of God: We see here that seeking God is not some provisional activity which precedes the goal of finding, but is itself evidence of having already found. Rather than being fulfilled in the presence of God, religious desire is born there. In short, a true spiritual seeking can be understood […]

Reggie McNeal

Last week, our staff went to hear Reggie McNeal speak at a local event. I found him to be excellent. I haven’t read any of his books, but his talks were based on The Present Future. Throughout the day he worked us through six bad questions and their better counterparts. I’ll post those questions tomorrow. […]

Hypernymous

Here’s a paragraph from Rollins’ How (Not) to Speak of God that’s worth thinking about: What is beginning to arise from the discussion so far is the idea that God ought to be understood as radically transcendent, not because God is somehow distant and remote from us, but precisely because God is immanent. In the […]

How (Not) to Speak of God

I’m encouraging everyone I know to read Peter Rollins’ How (Not) to Speak of God. It has stimulated my thinking more than any book I’ve read in the last year or two. It’s fairly short, but it’s dense. The payoff is worth the time spent. It informed some of what I said at the Zoe […]

Vital Friends

One of my vital friends recently gave me a copy of the book Vital Friends by Tom Rath. It’s an easy read. It feels like it was article that was expanded into a book (barely). It’s got some great insights about friendship. Here are a few nuggets. During our teenage years, we spend nearly one-third […]

The Stolen Child

Looking for some late summer reading? Check out The Stolen Child. It’s been called a fairy tale for adults. I finished it on Saturday and the story has stayed with me the way good stories are supposed to. Here’s the book description: Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to […]

Free Book!

Conrad Gempf is giving away his book “Jesus Asked” via podcast. This has been on my “must read” list for awhile. Now I’ll be listening to it. Rock on Conrad!