“Air Castle of the South,” by Craig Havighurst. It is the fascinating history of the WSM radio station in Nashville, TN, and the radio broadcasting industry in general. Well written, genuinely interesting, and a superb break with dealing and thinking about the Current Unpleasantness.
Theological:
Eliot R. Wolfson: Language, Eros and Meaning
Morwena Ludlow: Gregory of Nyssa: Ancient and (Post)Modern
Rowan Williams: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
Charles Taylor: A Secular Age
John Zizioulas: Communion and Otherness
Poetry:
Rowan Williams: Headwaters
Novels:
David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Mary Doria Russell: A Thread of Grace
The Last Centurion by John Ringo (the next Clancy) The Marketing of Evil. by David Kupelian The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
(won the Pulitzer Prize – nobody’s heard of it!) What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (this also won the Pulitzer. Howe contends this was the first communications revolution – the telegraph) The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
something old, something new… -RedHatRob
Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw
Wide Awake by Erwin McManus
The Toxic Congregation by G. Lloyd Rediger
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
What I’m REALLY reading?
“When in Rome” by Ngaio Marsh
“Elephants Can Remember” by Agatha Christie
Any other classic mystery fans out there? Any favorite authors?
[i] Journey to Jesus, [/i] Robert Webber
[i] Lost Boy No More: A True Story of Survival and Salvation, [/i] Abraham Nhial and DiAnn Mills
[i] The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels, [/i] Jeff Rice
[i] Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, [/i] Judy Willis, M.D.
[i] The City of God, [/i] St. Augustine
[i] Varney the Vampyre, [/i] James Malcolm Rymer
[i] Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, [/i] George W.M. Reynolds
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willla Cather, a beautiful depiction of this Southwestern bishop’s bringing the people back to the faith.
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper
Just finished re-reading two of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers:
[i]Strong Poison[/i]
[i]Busman’s Honeymoon[/i]
I do think Busman’s Honeymoon is my favorite of all the Lord Peter stories, just because I love how Sayers balances the challenge of the mystery with the challenge of writing about Lord Peter & Harriet’s romance… You know a book is great when sections keep you laughing with joy even after you’ve read it 4 or 5 times…!
Am slowly wading through one of [url=http://www.sharonkaypenman.com/]Sharon K. Penman’s[/url] excellent British historical novels: [b][i]When Christ and His Saints Slept[/i][/b] (about the civil war between Stephen and Maude). I usually love Penman’s work, [her “Falls the Shadow” is one of the best novels I’ve ever read] but have been finding this one slow going for various reasons.
For devotional reading: Amy Carmichael’s [i][b]Gold Cord[/b][/i] about the founding of the Donhavur Fellowship and the spiritual principles on which Carmichael’s ministry was based. EXCELLENT!!!!
Just recently finished Jasper Fforde’s [i]Lost in a Good Book[/i] sequel to the hillarious [i]The Eyre Affair[/i]. I’d read a few of Fforde’s later entries in the Thursday Next series and didn’t enjoy them as much. But Lost in a Good Book is excellent and wacky! I’m planning to reread The Eyre Affair since it’s 4 or 5 years since I first read it, and may read [i]Jane Eyre[/i] again too, just because Lost in a Good Book whetted my appetite for that along with Dickens’ [i]Great Expectations[/i] (but I’m not sure we’ve got a copy of Dickens here in our team’s library…, that may have to wait until my next home leave.)
Karen B (#29), Those are 2 of my favorite Dorothy Sayers’ novels. Have you read Gaudy Night and Nine Tailors? They are her fiction masterpieces, I think.
Novel: Just finished The Camel Club, by David Baldacci.
Political: I’m actually enjoying Save the Males, by Kathleen Parker. It is a look into modern day feminism and how the feminist movement is subtly (or not so subtly) trying to render men, and fathers in particular, obsolete.
Theological: Biblical studies are my focus right now, so I am reading the “Everyone” series by N.T. Wright, as well as the Scripture Union “Encounter” series for devotional time.
Alice Linsley and Karen B, I would name all four of those as the best Wimsey novels, and if I had to pick one favorite, it would be [i] Gaudy Night. [/i] I had jury duty recently, and took [i] Strong Poison [/i] along to read while waiting — good literary company, and an interesting parallel experience!
I have book-ADD, so right now, two at once: “The True and Only Heaven,” by Christopher Lasch, and “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?” by Alasdair MacIntyre. Can’t say enough about them both– they’re excellent.
Just finished “A Time For Silence” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and “Til We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred” by Phillip Bess.
Currently reading “The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism” by Geoffrey Russell, and “Ruark Remembered: By the Man Who Knew Him Best” by Alan Ritchie.
“Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery.â€
by Sarah Graves (about 1/2 way)
Working my way through:
“Soul Survivor”
by Philip Yancy (about 1/3 of the way)
And a patron at the library gave me a book of his and his wife’s testimony just self-published. I’m sorry, I can’t remember the name of the book or author right now, but it’s on my bedside table as well. (five chapters in)
The Church and the Papacy by Trevor Gervase Jalland. Just finished The Great Divorce and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
“What’s So Great About Christianity” by Dinesh D’Souza.
Indiana Gothic Brock Pope
Charlatan Brock Pope
Redeemed Heather King
Gilead
Oops. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Shack
So You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore
Questioning Evangelism
“Air Castle of the South,” by Craig Havighurst. It is the fascinating history of the WSM radio station in Nashville, TN, and the radio broadcasting industry in general. Well written, genuinely interesting, and a superb break with dealing and thinking about the Current Unpleasantness.
Theological:
Eliot R. Wolfson: Language, Eros and Meaning
Morwena Ludlow: Gregory of Nyssa: Ancient and (Post)Modern
Rowan Williams: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
Charles Taylor: A Secular Age
John Zizioulas: Communion and Otherness
Poetry:
Rowan Williams: Headwaters
Novels:
David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Mary Doria Russell: A Thread of Grace
The Last Centurion by John Ringo (the next Clancy)
The Marketing of Evil. by David Kupelian
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
(won the Pulitzer Prize – nobody’s heard of it!)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (this also won the Pulitzer. Howe contends this was the first communications revolution – the telegraph)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
something old, something new…
-RedHatRob
Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw
Wide Awake by Erwin McManus
The Toxic Congregation by G. Lloyd Rediger
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond.
The Apocrypha.
Understanding the Old Testament, by Bernhard Anderson (just completed)
Exclusion & Embrace by Miroslav Volf
The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays
[i]The Reason for God[/i], by Tim Keller
[i]Planet Narnia[/i] by Michael Ward (Oxford, 2008) and [i]Perelandra[/i] by CS Lewis (inspired to reread the trilogy by Ward’s comments.)
Just finished God’s Secretaries: the Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson.
What I’m REALLY reading?
“When in Rome” by Ngaio Marsh
“Elephants Can Remember” by Agatha Christie
Any other classic mystery fans out there? Any favorite authors?
Bruce Catton’s 3-volume Centennial History of the Civil War.
Emmanuel Levinas, [i]Totality and Infinity[/i]
Mark Mittleberg, [i]Becoming a Contagious Church[/i]
Stephen Neill, [i]Anglicanism[/i]
A Year with C. S. Lewis
Original Intent ~ Barton
The Bad Popes ~ Chamberlin
Tithing: Low-Realm, Obsolete & Defunct ~ Narramore
The Shack
The 16th Michigan (A Civil War regimental history by Kim Crawford)
[i] Journey to Jesus, [/i] Robert Webber
[i] Lost Boy No More: A True Story of Survival and Salvation, [/i] Abraham Nhial and DiAnn Mills
[i] The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels, [/i] Jeff Rice
[i] Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, [/i] Judy Willis, M.D.
[i] The City of God, [/i] St. Augustine
[i] Varney the Vampyre, [/i] James Malcolm Rymer
[i] Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, [/i] George W.M. Reynolds
William Shontz
Also:
[i] Orations, [/i] James Arminius
William Shontz
No Other God, A Response to Open Theism, by John Frame
The Innocence of God, by Udo Middlemann
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willla Cather, a beautiful depiction of this Southwestern bishop’s bringing the people back to the faith.
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper
The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian
Anglo-Saxon England by Frank Stenton
Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”
The Domestication of Transcendence by William Placher
In this House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Concordia – The Lutheran Confessions
The Fire and the Staff
Heaven on Earth – The Gifts of Christ in the Divine Service
James P. Carse – The Religious Case Against Belief
Jessie L. Weston – From Ritual to Romance
Hans Urs von Balthasar – Truth is Symphonic
Ren̩ Gu̩non РThe Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Philip Brett – William Byrd and His Contemporaries
Restoring the Anglican Mind – Arthur Middleton
Just finished re-reading two of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers:
[i]Strong Poison[/i]
[i]Busman’s Honeymoon[/i]
I do think Busman’s Honeymoon is my favorite of all the Lord Peter stories, just because I love how Sayers balances the challenge of the mystery with the challenge of writing about Lord Peter & Harriet’s romance… You know a book is great when sections keep you laughing with joy even after you’ve read it 4 or 5 times…!
Am slowly wading through one of [url=http://www.sharonkaypenman.com/]Sharon K. Penman’s[/url] excellent British historical novels: [b][i]When Christ and His Saints Slept[/i][/b] (about the civil war between Stephen and Maude). I usually love Penman’s work, [her “Falls the Shadow” is one of the best novels I’ve ever read] but have been finding this one slow going for various reasons.
For devotional reading: Amy Carmichael’s [i][b]Gold Cord[/b][/i] about the founding of the Donhavur Fellowship and the spiritual principles on which Carmichael’s ministry was based. EXCELLENT!!!!
Just recently finished Jasper Fforde’s [i]Lost in a Good Book[/i] sequel to the hillarious [i]The Eyre Affair[/i]. I’d read a few of Fforde’s later entries in the Thursday Next series and didn’t enjoy them as much. But Lost in a Good Book is excellent and wacky! I’m planning to reread The Eyre Affair since it’s 4 or 5 years since I first read it, and may read [i]Jane Eyre[/i] again too, just because Lost in a Good Book whetted my appetite for that along with Dickens’ [i]Great Expectations[/i] (but I’m not sure we’ve got a copy of Dickens here in our team’s library…, that may have to wait until my next home leave.)
Psychology and the Bible By J. Harold Ellens & Wayne G. Rollins
The Ezekial Option, Joel Rosenberg
The World of Silence – Max Picard
Earlier Poems – Franz Wright
A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz
John Adams – David McCullough
Marie Curie: A Life – Susan Quinn
St Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks.
Conducted by Mary Maples Dodge
Volume XIV – 1886 – 1887
Don
Karen B (#29), Those are 2 of my favorite Dorothy Sayers’ novels. Have you read Gaudy Night and Nine Tailors? They are her fiction masterpieces, I think.
Novel: Just finished The Camel Club, by David Baldacci.
Political: I’m actually enjoying Save the Males, by Kathleen Parker. It is a look into modern day feminism and how the feminist movement is subtly (or not so subtly) trying to render men, and fathers in particular, obsolete.
Theological: Biblical studies are my focus right now, so I am reading the “Everyone” series by N.T. Wright, as well as the Scripture Union “Encounter” series for devotional time.
Alice Linsley and Karen B, I would name all four of those as the best Wimsey novels, and if I had to pick one favorite, it would be [i] Gaudy Night. [/i] I had jury duty recently, and took [i] Strong Poison [/i] along to read while waiting — good literary company, and an interesting parallel experience!
“What’s So Great About America” by Dinesh D’Souza
I have book-ADD, so right now, two at once: “The True and Only Heaven,” by Christopher Lasch, and “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?” by Alasdair MacIntyre. Can’t say enough about them both– they’re excellent.
Just finished “A Time For Silence” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, and “Til We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred” by Phillip Bess.
Currently reading “The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism” by Geoffrey Russell, and “Ruark Remembered: By the Man Who Knew Him Best” by Alan Ritchie.
“Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery.â€
by Sarah Graves (about 1/2 way)
Working my way through:
“Soul Survivor”
by Philip Yancy (about 1/3 of the way)
And a patron at the library gave me a book of his and his wife’s testimony just self-published. I’m sorry, I can’t remember the name of the book or author right now, but it’s on my bedside table as well. (five chapters in)
Peace
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