I just finished reading a book that I think has made a big impression on me, Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross by Mark Heim. I had read about the “Girardian” perspective on Jesus’s crucifixion various places, mostly, I think on Brian McLaren’s blog and was intrigued and wanted to learn more. Mark […]
Last month for the last book of my JustFaith class, I read Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. The book came at a good time for me in my life as I was pondering vocation and two or three different potential futures. The big take away from the book […]
A few weeks ago I finished listening to Stuart Diamond’s Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World. It had lots of great ideas to help one not only negotiate, but generally do well in the area of human relations. The major ideas were: Define your goal and make it […]
Last month, I listened to Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators. I became interested in the book by hearing about the “Shirky Principle,” particularly as it relates to the church on Tony Jones’ blog. The Shirky Principle basically states that institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are […]
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, David Platt I listened to the audio version of this book and initially resonated with its intense call to authentic discipleship. It is a modern, evangelical Christian’s version of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic Cost of Discipleship. I loved much of what Platt said about the contrasts between […]
Finished reading Do the Work, a free Kindle book, by Steven Pressman, author of the War of Art. It is a thoughtfully concise treatise on the struggles we all have in making something creative. Pressman provides a template of the process it takes to generate ideas and transform them into a finished product/work of art. […]