“You are standing at the gateway of heaven. You are living in the House of God.” Hunting Magic Eels is a map for burned-out Christians. Beck, himself burned out by years of doubt and Christendom, wrote this book as an antidote…
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“In mind, God; In the hand, work.” This book is on the suggested reading list of Yoga With Adriene’s Adriene Mischler. It’s the fourth book on the list that I’ve read. While this book is called The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it…
“Either this is madness, or it Hell.”“It is neither; it is Knowledge.” Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland is, in this reviewer’s calculations, 35% Just for Fun, 30% Social Satire, and 35% Devotional to Truth. I like all of that stuff, so I really…
Earlier this year I reviewed Cyberville, Stacy Horn’s recounting of starting an online community in 1990s New York. That got me on a 90s entertainment kick in music, movies, and other books. (To be honest, I’m always on a 90s…
“You lived; you will always have lived. Death does not erase your life…If only time could be seen whole.” Good, where to start? The reader has parts from the beginning, middle, and end of the book that stand out; out…
I’m by no means a philosophy expert! That being said, my hope is to become more conversant in the “love of wisdom” in order to live a better life. As mentioned in a previous post, I started reading theologian-philosopher Tillich…
This year has been a wacky one, to say the least. In the midst of turmoil, I’ve tried to provide myself with a “spiritual roll-cage” to stay alive and reasonably well. A big piece of that has been reading books…
If you like the quote in the title of this review, you’ll like this book. The words spoken by Sister Joan Chittister contain the kind of wisdom you’ll find throughout this short and mind-blowing book. While How to Live draws much…
This book sat on my shelf for a decade because I was too scared to read it. It’s great, everyone said. It’s great, but it’s heavy. It is both of those things. It’s also, unexpectedly, the best book on fatherhood…
I was skeptical about this book for two reason. When something is trendy, like the Enneagram, I hate it by default. (The first version of this book, to be fair, was from the 1980s.) I’ve also done a lot of…
