Another non-fiction book--this time, intensely personal theology.

( The Wounding and Healing of Desire )

Probably the most life-changing book I've read this year--or for several years--is Emily P. Freeman's Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life.

( Grace for the Good Girl )

I really wanted to get a better head start on the List of Ten this year, since I didn't get all my books off last year's list read. And I'm doing better so far. I've finished one book, I'm over halfway through another, and I have a third waiting in the wings.

The first book off the list this year is ( The Name of the Rose )

Hey, flist--I know many of you read or have read theology, so I am hopeful that you can provide me with good ideas ( Read more... )

This one took about 10 weeks to get through! I might have to miss out one of the books off my list after all.

( The Resurrection of the Son of God )

I'm sort of half-way ripping this idea off from someone-- tree_and_leaf, iirc. So apologies and credit due there.

kalquessa once said that she could bring me just about any book, say "point to God," and I could do so, and there He would be, and would have been there all along ( Read more... )

"How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness."

--one of the gods in the theological fantasy novel Paladin of Souls.

Since I've introduced my good friend feliciakw to Supernatural, we've been periodically having long discussions about how the show treats the idea of evil (with demons being very real, and portrayed pretty much as they are in long-standing Christian tradition; hell being an actual destination; and a deal with the devil being an action rather than a metaphor ( Read more... )