Summer Reading List
Here’s a list of books I’m working through this summer. In the spirit of C.S. Lewis’ advice to read one old book for every new book you read, I’ve tried to even out my ratio of new to old. I classify old as being written by someone who’s dead. If you read any of these let me know what you thought of them.
The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
Organic Church by Neil Cole
No Perfect People Allowed by John Burke
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
The Pensees by Blaise Pascall
Art and the Bible by Francis Schaeffer
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Here’s a list of some books that I read this past year. Some where required others weren’t. You can probably guess which are which.
Confessions of a Reformissional Rev. by Mark Driscoll
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (this one is simply amazing)
God in the Dock a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis
Jack by George Sayers (a good, fair and enlightening bio)
Faith and Reason by Ronald Nash
Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson (highlights the philosophical presuppositions behind neo-Darwinism
The Hermeneutical Spiral by Grant R. Osborne (This ones a doosie)
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (a re-read for me, but better the second time.)
The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness by McBeth (a descent history book)
Not a Silent People by Walter B. Shurden (I don’t recommend this one)
Hatred is Ironic
Hatred is ironic. I was watching Christopher Hitchens talk about Jerry Falwell last week on Anderson Cooper 360. As he spewed insults at not only the recently deceased Falwell, but everyone who believes in God, I was overcome by the irony of hatred. Here was a man who hates Falwell because he believes Falwell spreads hate. Rarely have I seen an interview where a person’s hatred for another individual was so palpable. It was oozing off the TV screen. Regardless of how we feel about people can we at least agree that hatred is counterproductive? Hate is one of those things that can never be done away with by returning the favor. That’s why Jesus suggests blessing those who curse you. Sounds like good advice to me.
