“Why didn’t anyone tell me CS Lewis was brilliant?!”
That’s pretty much what I think when I pick up one of his books. I’ve gone my entire life not understanding what people saw in this CS Lewis guy. I had read the Chronicles of Narnia and enjoyed them. But even as a kid I knew they [...]
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what i’m reading: Mere Christianity
Posted in CS Lewis, book review, feeding my brain on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
what i’m watching?: The Golden Compass
Posted in God, feeding my brain, sharing faith on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Golden Compass is set to hit theaters this weekend to much fanfare. And it’s not just Hollywood Hype that’s driving this movie’s appeal. If you follow the news at all you’ve probably heard that many Christian groups are encouraging people to avoid this movie. In a way that’s understandable. You see, the whole point [...]
what i’m reading: Jesus Among Other Gods
Posted in Bible, Bible reliability, Jesus, book review, feeding my brain on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think it’s safe to say that we live in a very pluralistic world, where ideas from a wide variety of cultures are shared and believed. Who among us doesn’t know someone of a different faith or philosophical background? But that pluralism isn’t limited to just religion or politics. Choice is everywhere, including our toothpaste [...]
what i’m reading: Chasing Daylight
Posted in book review, feeding my brain, revolutionary on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Erwin McManus’s first book, The Barbarian Way, is the most important book I’ve ever read. I know it’s considered “bad” to say this, but it has been more important to me than reading the Bible. Without The Barbarian Way I never would have read the Bible, let alone seen the beauty of it. McManus has [...]
what I’m listening to: Greg Boyd
Posted in feeding my brain, podcasts on September 21, 2007 | Comments Off
I spend a lot of time reading. Most of it is about God. I don’t do this out of obligation, or think of it as a requirement, but because I am so excited about knowing God that I look forward to learning as much as I can. Of course sometimes I don’t have time to [...]
what I’m reading: Her Agony (Time Magazine)
Posted in God, Mother Teresa, faith, feeding my brain, love, trust on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most days I set out with some kind of intentionality behind what I read. But occasionally I come across something by chance. And that’s how it was for Her Agony.
I had been eating lunch with a friend, when the topic of Mother Teresa came up. (Up to that day I probably had a total of [...]
what I’m reading: Judges
Posted in Bible, God, feeding my brain, miracles on August 31, 2007 | Comments Off
Sometimes when you think of the Bible you have two different pictures of God. There’s the hippy, happy-go-lucky God from the New Testament. And the mean, angry, I’m-going-to-smote-you God from the Old Testament. At least that’s how I used to picture the Bible before I actually started to read it.
That’s why I really enjoy books [...]
what I’m reading: This We Believe
Posted in book review, feeding my brain, sharing faith on August 24, 2007 | Comments Off
When I first realized I had become a Christian, I had no idea what to do with that knowledge. So I did what came naturally to me – I began to read as many books and articles as I could about Christianity. I figured if it was a good enough technique to learn psychology in [...]
