While aware that Amazon offers much, much more than books, if I am given an Amazon gift card it's almost always books I purchase. Below are some recent acquisitions, a couple I've read, others dipped into, and others awaiting my attention. Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age …
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Spiritual Practices for an Accelerating Age #2: Open a Book
A snapshot of part of one shelf of one bookcase in our house. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.Ecclesiastes 12:12 A classmate back in my grad school days had this above verse from Ecclesiastes on his office door. A subtle reminder, I guess, of the …
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Reading Time
It’s easy to default to playing with your phone, checking out YouTube videos, podcasts, whenever you have a spare minute or free time. It can become a habit. More, for some it can be addictive. Our screens can suck away our time like a Shop-Vac sucks up dust and dirt. But for the last few …
Books from the Library
I got a call yesterday from our local library letting me know that a book I ordered had arrived. To be honest, I couldn’t remember what book I had ordered! Something one of my sons had requested, perhaps? Much to my joy, I discovered it was the one volume edition of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation …
Lenten TV Fast Update Part 2
On recent Saturday mornings, my son Eli and I have been watching The Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon on Netflix. Most recently we watched a bunch of episodes of the Marvel show WandaVision on Disney+. After that I would sometimes watch an episode or two of Law & Order. But now I won’t be doing any of …
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