Absence of Mind
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Marilynne Robinson www.thedailyshow.com Marilynne Robinson's new book, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, is a collection of lectures she delivered at Yale last year. You can…
Summer reading list
Around the office we’ve been talking about books for the last few weeks. What’s everyone reading? What are we looking forward to reading in the summer? Our goal has been to produce a list of recommended summer reading to share….
Bring back the Sabbath
When we moved to Austin in 1994 from Switzerland, our family thought we were coming home. As Americans in Switzerland we had been strangers in a strange land, cut off from the English language, college football, Tex-Mex and other such…
About power
Andy Crouch, author of "Culture Making," is at work on a new book about creative power. What does it mean to have creative power in a culture or society … for Christians? What temptations does it present? What possibilities? He's…
Growth in Grace photo album, 2010
Ralph Wood – Learning to Love & Appreciate Good Literature. GALLERY Women's Luncheon
Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman (bildung=“formation” + roman=”story”) – A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character. (Answers.com) I should have guessed that there was a German word for the “coming-of-age novel.” Bildungsroman. “Formation…
Reading Calvin?
In Romans 12 Paul says to "present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…." The…