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Paul Johnson’s Churchill

During some time off this week I read Paul Johnson’s Churchill (Viking, 2009). Its a brief and enjoyable biography, covering in less than 200 pages a very full life of 90 years, from early military...

March 24, 2011No Comments

Two Sentence Review of Surprised By Hope

I just finished N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (HarperOne 2008). Here is my review in two (very long) sentences: I found the book helpful in that:...

April 12, 2010No Comments

CJ Mahaney’s Humility: True Greatness

This past summer I read CJ Mahaney’s book, Humility: True Greatness (Multnomah, 2005), which is a wonderful and edifying book which I heartily recommend to anyone who struggles alongside me with pride – and if...

March 17, 20101 Comment

Thoughts on Jim Belcher’s Deep Church

On our way back from Chicago this Christmas Esther and I stopped in Grand Rapids, where I picked up Jim Belcher’s Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional (IVP 09), which we read...

February 22, 2010No Comments

Einstein

I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein (Simon and Schuster, 2007). I picked the book up because I wanted to learn more about Einstein’s contribution to physics and what is really at stake...

January 22, 20104 Comments

Abraham Lincoln

Yesterday for my day off, I went to Borders, ordered a large coffee, and, in connection with my recent interest in biographies, read James M. McPherson’s Abraham Lincoln. There are a host of books on...

January 21, 20091 Comment