I don’t usually highlight my “professional” reading in these annual retrospectives, but this year I read three theology books that stood out in a unique way. These are books that I would be enthused to give to friends and colleagues. In particular, it struck me that these three books could be very profitably read by…
Looking back, 2011 was a difficult year for our family. But any year in which one can still read can’t be all bad. So as per my tradition (see, for example, 2009 and 2010), and as a way to cultivate gratitude, I’ll spend the next few posts reflecting on a year of reading. I’ll highlight…
I’ve put to bed the proofs and index for a second, revised edition of my first book, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic, forthcoming from Baker Academic. (My son, Coleson, helped with the index this time around–breeding a family of child laborers is finally paying off! 😉 The book is slated…
Today I conclude my little series on Saul Bellow at The Twelve blog: “The Temptations of Assimilation: Schilder our Bellow?” Here’s where I end up: “Being Reformed” is too regularly the banner under which we enthusiastically assimilate to the age. “Being Reformed” is the warrant and rationale for our cultural engagement to the point that…
As I’m working through Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, I can’t help but compare it to two other important books I’ve read in the last year or so: David Brooks’ much-discussed The Social Animal and Iain McGilchrist’s underappreciated The Master and his Emmisary. Of course they are quite different projects, working with different lexicons,…
One of the highlights of 2011 for me was making the acquaintance of Gabe Lyons and all the good folks associated with Q: Ideas for the Common Good. The conversation has connected me with a wide network of leaders and innovators from various arenas of cultural production (politics, media, the arts, finance and commerce, education,…