Category: books

The Incarnation of God: The Mystery of the Gospel as the Foundation of Evangelical Theology – Clark, John; Johnson, Marcus Peter This was a great book that magnifies Jesus Christ through and through. The authors emphasize again and again that we are saved by all that Jesus was, is, and did as God-man – not… Continue reading The Incarnation of God

Biblical Dogmatics – Voigt, Andrew George (1917) This is a good little Systematic Theology from the early 20th century. It is from a conservative Lutheran position so there were some perspectives I hadn’t encountered before, but that was, in large part why I read it. I’m exploring this branch of Protestant Reformation thought at the… Continue reading Biblical Dogmatics

My five or so year long quest to read The Brothers Karamazov has come to an end. I’m just glad it’s over. I devoured Crime and Punishment but this one never hooked me. Many people praise it highly, so maybe it’s just me, there we’re brilliant moments but on the whole it was one long… Continue reading The Brothers Karamazov

The Silk Roads is an entirely fascinating book. It’s extremely readable and covers a huge amount of time (a few hundred B.C. to today) from the perspective of the region of the world between the Mediterranean and the Pacific (mostly focused in Iran and the -stans). Fun and eye-opening, it makes me far more interested… Continue reading The Silk Roads

So Wendell probably wouldn’t approve of my reading of his books on Kindle, but what can you do? What Matters? is a decent collection of essays about stewardship of the earth, community, people, and so forth. I should have noted the better ones more carefully as I read but to the best of my recollection… Continue reading What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry

Since I live in an Orthodox country and have long found myself drawn to high churchy things I visited services here in English and after the service got to chat with some of the westerners who had become Orthodox. They were quite eager to share their conversion to Orthodoxy and recommended Ware’s The Orthodox Church . I was… Continue reading Nope, still Protestant, very Protestant

Ivanhoe is awesome and you should read it, especially if you love Robin Hood.

Coming Apart by Charles Murray sheds some light on two parts of America I don’t completely understand, finding myself between them both it seems. I’m no statistician so I skimmed a bit of part one, and probably would recommend others to do the same, go back & dig later depending on your interest. Basically he discusses… Continue reading Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

Fight by Preston Sprinkle is a book that’ll really make you think. Even if you don’t agree with all of his conclusions, as I do not, I think you’ll be challenged by the case he makes. I would especially recommend it to any Christian thinking of going into or in the military or law enforcement. And… Continue reading Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence

Dallimore’s Spurgeon is a relatively easy, short read that offers a glimpse of the life and accomplishments of CH Spurgeon. It is more topical than chronological, though within that constraint he does organized chronologically as much as possible. (Everything pre-Metropolitan Tabernacle is before that, most of his last days are in one section, etc.) However,… Continue reading Spurgeon – Dallimore