This is a book review I wrote 9 years ago and still very relevant today. The author wrote me at the time to say “Thank you for your thoughtful review of The Grammar of God. I feel you truly understood what I was trying to do!” -Aviya Kushner The English Old Testament is a source of inspiration for millions of …
“As someone who spent the majority of my life as a diehard Christian Nationalist but didn’t know it,” April Ajoy writes in Star Spangled Jesus, ” I have quite a bit of firsthand information about what Christian Nationalism is, what it looks like, what its goals are, and why we need to resist it.” As a former Evangelical Christian myself, …
I haven’t posted to this blog in three years. I’m back! I still have been reviewing books and posting on other platforms. I decided to start posting here again. Books I have bought for myself (and not given “free” books by publishers in exchange for reviews like I have in the past). Here’s a review of a good book I …
I didn’t review as many books in 2020 as in past years so I narrowed my annual year end list of the best books I have read to 3. Click on the title links to read my original review of each book: Number 3: What is the Bible by Rob Bell Bell delves deep into the original language many parts …
“You missed it” Rob Bell thought he knew the Bible. He had studied in seminary and relished preaching on topics from the Holy Book. Then one Sunday, after giving a sermon, a man walked up to him and said the words above – “you missed it”. “What? I asked him. What did I miss?” Rob Bell relates. “(the man) then …
I was never one for setting goals, even though I was encouraged to do so in building our travel business. Our travel business turned out just fine, thank you, without goal setting. I found a book that resonated with this strategy. “If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead,” writes James Clear in …
19 years ago the September 11th tragedy shocked the World. I have watched several documentaries on what happened that day but nothing compares to the detail presented in Garrett Graff’s book The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 The book is entirely made up of quotes from what people experienced on 9/11. From victims in the …
This week I was featured on a CBS Channel 4 segment on the Denver Broncos opener. My story is that I have been to every Broncos home opener since 1967 except for one! I will also miss Monday night’s home opener against the Titans (as well as all other fans) but I’ll be cheering on the team from home. Pictured above …
After Franklin Roosevelt passed away the next President, VP Harry Truman, was told a secret. There’s “an immense project that was underway”, Secretary of War Henry Stimson told Truman, to develop “a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power.” Author Chris Wallace writes in his book Countdown 1945, “The project was so secret—and so potentially dangerous—only a handful of people …
“I am in no sense an evangelical, for I do not share the view that faith in Jesus is the only route to salvation, nor am I determined to convert others to my point of view,” writes author Jon Meacham in the opening of his book The Hope of Glory – Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus on the …