Recently read
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (well, the audiobook version)
- Attempts to describe life in North Korea based on interviews with defectors and a few trips that the author, as a Seoul-based journalist, was able to make into the country. Crazy stuff.
- Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
- Worth reading. "In the mind of many orthodox Christians ... 'doing justice' is inextricably linked with the loss of sound doctrine and spiritual dynamism. However, Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth-century author of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," was a staunch Calvinist and hardly anyone's idea of a 'liberal.' Yet in his discourse on 'The Duty of Charity to the Poor,' he concluded, 'Where have we any command in the Bible laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the command of giving to the poor?'". (p. xii)
- Presumed Innocent
- A dose of fiction... a little too predictable.
- Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet
- A book trying to present a Christian case for caring for the environment with some interesting endorsements. Tried to avoid some areas of controversy, but a little preachy for my tastes (partly due to it being the author reading the [audio]book) and a little too unquestioning at times.
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John (not verified)
Tue, 2011-02-01 12:55
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I'm looking forward to
I'm looking forward to reading Keller's new book. It's in table just waiting for me.