Got your summer reading list planned? If you’re looking for some interesting book suggestions, and/or some opportunities to discuss what you’re reading with others, check out Breakpoint’s summer “Blog a Book” challenge.
Blog-a-Book: Summer reading challenge
Book Perhaps you heard Chuck Colson talking today about BreakPoint’s new summer reading list. Here’s the commentary, in case you didn’t — and here’s the list, compiled of all those book suggestions we tossed around the last few weeks.
And here’s a challenge for those of you who love to read:
Next week a group of us bloggers, along with two guest bloggers from our internship program, are starting “Blog-a-Book.” It’s an idea we got from Slate’s “Blog the Bible” feature, although our vision is just a bit less ambitious. Each of us has selected a book from the new reading list and, for nine weeks (starting July 9), will be reading it and writing about it here on the blog.
We’d like to challenge you to join us. If you’re game, choose a book from the list and blog along with us! You can use the comment section on any of our Blog-a-Book posts to log your thoughts and impressions on what you’re reading.
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Personally, this elf would love to see some “book blogging” on T19 this summer, or perhaps Stand Firm? Sarah Hey set an example recently with her marvellous post on Bleak House. And yes, that post got this elf re-reading Bleak House! I’m currently on chapter 36…! 😉
I would really enjoy people sharing what they are reading and comments on that. I have one article archived at SF at
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/media/who_stole_our_culture.html
It is from “The Cuture-Wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World.” by Dr. Teb Baehr and Pat Boone. The article, actually, it is a chapter out of the book, was enough for me to order it from Amazon. I’m waiting, and it should be in this week.
What a fabulous idea! I’m downloading the list because just choosing a book will be an adventure. Actually there is a book I’m thinking of that is not on the list…hmmm. Happy reading to all!
[url=http://www.vulcanhammer.org/?page_id=106]I have done this kind of thing with my own work.[/url]
This sounds great! I’m reading Mark Noll’s Is the Reformation Over?, which I’ll blog on The Reformed Pastor (and would be glad to have you cross-post).
Starting next week, we will blog Max Lucado’s [i] Travelling Light [/i], which is on the “list”. Will probably blog about three chapters per week for six weeks (July 9 – August 18).
Comment to elves:
Is there a way to have the Standfirm group put their e-mail code in clippable format so I can single click and bring the blog article to the sreen? I am the slowest and the world’s worst typer.
Thank you
I just finished re-reading [u]Evil and the Justice of God[/u] and I am currently reading Miraslov Volf’s [u]Exclusion and Embrace[/u] at the moment. I also have on my list [u]The Challenge of Jesus[/u] by N.T. Wright, [u]The Birth of the Messiah[/u] by Raymond Brown, [u]Free of Chrage[/u] by Volf, [u]Chasing Sophia[/u] by Lilian Barger, and [u]Revelations of Divine Love[/u] by Julian of Norwich.
I probably won’t get to all of them, but I strongly recommend [u]Evil and the Justice of God[/u] as well as [Exclusion and Embrace[/u].
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
I just blogged through some of Pope Benedict XVI’s “Jesus of Nazareth,” which I really liked. The next book I’d like to read is “The Beauty of the Infinite” by David Bentley Hart. I only have a few weeks before I start medical school though so my reading will probably be cut short. This sounds like a cool idea though.
I’m reading Praying God’s Word by Beth Moore. And I’m hoping soon to read Left to Tell, by Immaculee Ilibagiza. It’s the true story of a woman caught in the Rwandan genocide. She spent 91 days in a bathroom with six other women. 60 Minutes profiled her and managed to tell her story while only using the “J” word once (and that was the author speaking). I think I’ll hear a lot more about Jesus in the book.
Hey
Remember we are all illiterate neanderthals who don’t know how to read – let alone follow “modern scholarship”. If we did, we would all be enlightened.