Recently read
- The Audacity of Hope
- Barack Obama's 2006 book. Not a terrible read, but seemed more like an electoral sales pitch than anything. One thing that gives me hope for some of the church communities that Obama was dealing with: "Sometimes I would sit through a church service and the pastor would forget to recognize me" (p. 9)
- The Pursuit of Holiness
- Was it bad? No, not really. Would I reccomend it? Probably not - Jerry Bridges books seem to blend together - it seems a little hard to tell them apart.
- Terrorist
- A novel by John Updike. *yawn*. The plot didn't seem to be resolve itself in a particularly satisfying way - cardboard characters.
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- Francis Collin's book - half autobiography / half an argument against creationism. It was a decent book - worth reading, although I'm not sure that Collins is the world's best philosopher. He also had a tendancy to get sidetracked from the book's stated focus (by getting into bioethics and the human genome project).