We have winners for the two up-for-grab issues of Books & Culture, May/June 2010 issue! Renae and Lindsey. Congratulations, you two! If you’ll e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com and provide me with your addresses, I shall send them straightaway. Happiest of reading to you. John Wilson, my editor at Books & Culture, […]
Beginning of the Week Thoughts
Last week, I received a short reply from Redlefty of the blog Megaloi, responding to my question of whether or not he’d found any good books to read about Jesus’s humanness or divinity (or both). His reply: “…I’ve certainly had the same doubts/thoughts about Jesus. Honestly, I don’t know how I used to read the […]
Beautiful Things
I want to share three things I’m savoring at the moment (besides the lovely piece of art above). First, a wonderful parable by Philip Harrison, taken from The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief by Peter Rollins. The other day I had a dream. I dreamed I arrived at the gates of heaven, […]
Why Do We Eat When We’re Not Hungry
When I read about this book in O Magazine, I thought, Hmmm, could be interesting. Because, you see, I if I’m blatantly honest, I’ve been trying to stay a certain weight all my life. Ostensibly for health, but really for looks. Roth, in a chapter called “Tigers in the Mind” begins: “No matter how developed […]
Post-Christian?
Since I have an interfaith audience–which I’m ecstatic about–what I’m about to tell you will shock some, will be well-duh! to others. I’ve not attended church in over a year and a half. [This may not seem outrageous to some of you, but you have to understand, churchgoing is not negotiable where I come from. […]