I came across an index card last week. It must have fallen out one of the books we’ve been carrting around for years and have begun to weed out. It was a reference to a “Hart, J. K.” and a book, Light from the north with the notation, “1926. folk high schools in Denmark” and [...]
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Isn’t there a saying about eyes bigger than your stomach?
That’s what happen to us this afternoon. Went to Cokesbury for a couple more copies of Greg Ogden’s books (Transforming discipleship and Discipleship essentials: A guide to rebuilding your life in Christ) and walked out with an armful of missional church and more disciple-making books, plus two Walter Wangerin books— his latest, Letters [...]
We need a psychological/sociological equivalent of the Moebus Strip
Yesterday I got thru rereading Raymond Brown’s 1979 study of the gospel and epistles of John, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times (Paulist Press). I found it extremely exciting, stimulating and thought-provoking much more than the first time I went through it. [...]
Lots of words, but what about doing?: Straightening our bookcases
I’ve started picking up the books scattered around and putting them back into shelves— kind of organizing them as I go. I began with our bookshelf where we try to keep our main Christian books.
We’ve got bibles— all kinds of bibles in all kinds of translations and versions: NEB, REB, NASB, NRSV, RSV, NIV, [...]
Okay, okay. I’ll get rid of some books, Martha
This by David Dalla Venezia. One of his pictures is used as the cover for Ray Pawson book, Evidence-based Policy: A Realist Perspective (London: SAGE, 2006). I picked it up today to reread some passages. Pawson included some links to Venezia’s work and I saw this. It captures what others have described and what I’ve [...]