I finished reading Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl last week. This seems like something that should have been on my high school’s required curriculum, as it is for many schools today. Anne Frank’s diary is so important because it puts a human face on the Holocaust.
Anne received a diary as a gift [...]

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My recent reading has helped me fill in a gaping void in my thinking. In the past I have spoken so carelessly, glibly, with much ignorance about “the Jews” in the world today, the Holocaust, and persecution they have endured (often in the name of Christ). My education has improved in this area [...]

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I just finished reading Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller, who also wrote Blue Like Jazz. One of Miller’s main points is that we, being separated from the security of God’s love, look to everybody else to tell us that we’re OK. He included this magnificently honest quote from Tom Arnold, [...]

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Last month I heard an interview with Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness. This book immediately went on my must-read list (haven’t read it yet) because Gilbert gave some intriguing ideas about how most of the things from which we expect happiness fail to provide it, and how we blindly sacrifice real happiness now [...]

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I recently finished reading Daniel Taylor’s book The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian and the Risk of Commitment (InterVarsity Press, 1986). The title makes it sound like the book encourages skepticism and undercuts faith. Far from it. Taylor instead helps us embrace faith more firmly even in the face of [...]

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While on a trip to Ohio this week (by myself) I listened to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which occupied about ten of my 16 hours of drive time. The novel was very entertaining, the quality of the recording was top-notch - and best of all, it was FREE (and legal too). Like [...]

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We just got back from the stores at Turkey Creek where I perused the book sections at Target and Wal-Mart, and I noticed an interesting thing: Not only are Dan Brown’s books everywhere (The Da Vinci Code and others) but half-a-dozen other fiction authors have also “found religion” and have produced new novels about conspiracies [...]

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Here’s a post I meant to make this past Saturday, the day that stands between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Philip Yancey writes eloquently that we live in a Saturday world, a world that stands between the hope announced on Resurrection Day and the time of the end when Christ will return and reign [...]

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