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Category Archives: reading
Passing time in prison
Reading Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison, vol 8 in DB Works/English. I find it too painful to read for long stretches; also, like the psalms, it sinks more deeply into consciousness if you read a little at a time. … Continue reading
Thinking wins
I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing, so I’ll start again. Our Neighborhood MeetUP viewed a film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran pastor who collaborated with German leaders seeking to kill Hitler. Bonhoeffer wrote extensively … Continue reading
Hearing the Silent Cry
I’m using a new version of WordPress. Not used to it yet. The idea of Resistance is fascinating to me. I’m reading a second time Dorothee Soelle’s masterwork The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance (2001). She begins with a quote … Continue reading
A good pastor
A.J. Cronin’s book Keys of the Kingdom. Written in 1941, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, a Scottish Catholic who turns poverty and tragedy into a life of beauty in the service of the poor and of the … Continue reading
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Light through the cracks
Stephen Tomkins. John Wesley: A Biography. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. 208 pp. I wanted to read a biography of Wesley in honor of the church I attend, and am growing to love: Trinity United Methodist, Richmond. Nobody with an ounce … Continue reading
Fire light
Pilgrim Aflame, historical novel by Myron Augsburger based on his dissertation on Michael Sattler, the 16th century leader/martyr of Anabaptists. The Radicals, a film/DVD based on the novel. The writing is good enough; the story, absorbing. Sattler, a Benedictine prior … Continue reading
Henry David Thoreau “Life with Principle”
The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants….. When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, the the great resources of a world are … Continue reading
Begone!
1:00 am. Just finished reading Gone with the Wind. It was impossible to put down. Although I knew the story from the film, I found myself day after day reading from early morning until late at night. Why? It’s so … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Gone with the Wind, Old South, Scarlett
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Borg: Putting Away Childish Things
Marcus Borg—an Oregon professor of religion, author of numerous books on Christianity, notably Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, and more recently Jesus, a summing up of 20 years of scholarship on Jesus—wrote a novel called Putting Away Childish … Continue reading