Who pays for the choices we make?

March 2, 2010

Everyday Justice is a book you will want to avoid if you do not want to be confronted with uncomfortable issues. The cover alone gives enough clues about where the author will take us.

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Essay on faith a new endeavour for novelist

March 2, 2010

For those of you who read these reviews (the editor, mom, dad) it might be helpful for me to admit my bias toward mainstream, non-evangelical books. I'm always interested in knowing what people outside the evangelical subculture think. What issues are they wrestling with? How do they make sense of the world and their place in it? What do they think about God, faith and the Church?

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Nothing to linger over in book about waiting

March 2, 2010

In Sacred Waiting David Timms highlights five biblical characters—Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus—as individuals who waited, and in doing so, endured, trusted, learned, worshipped and obeyed, respectively. He then goes on to discuss five periods of waiting in the church calendar—Advent, Lent, Easter, Pentecost and Kingdom. He introduces each chapter with a prayer and concludes it with questions for group discussion.

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Solitude requires us to meet our demons

March 2, 2010

Dense with spiritual wisdom inherited from the desert fathers and mothers, Henri Nouwen's The Way of the Heart delves into the three disciplines of solitude, silence and prayer, which are surprisingly difficult to reconcile with a culture that glorifies image, noise and consumption.

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Refreshing tale just a hair's breadth this side of absurdity

February 12, 2010

"Not many people are killed by lightning. Zac's mother was."

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