Green Tolkien
Over the past couple of Sundays, Bill has been quoting from a book with a particularly compelling title: Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (by Matthew Dickerson & Jonathan Evans). Just when you think you’ve begun…
What do you do?
Somewhere along the way (was it 2nd grade?) we started to get the idea that big books, books of consequence, didn’t have pictures. Dismayed, we accepted the burden of plodding through the rest of our typeset lives. Thankfully, author Alain…
Three Kinds of Men, by C.S. Lewis
"There are three kinds of people in the world. The first class is of those who live simply for their own sake and pleasure, regarding Man and Nature as so much raw material to be cut up into whatever shape…
Read the Book. See the Movie. Read the Book.
It would be easy to say that Revolutionary Road, both the novel by Richard Yates and the recent film from Sam Mendes, is a story about the American Dream, and how it is nothing more than a dream. I’m sure…
Steven Garber, how to keep on keeping on
“If faith does shape vocation which does shape culture, then it is crucial to take the time to ask and answer the perennial questions that everyone asks and everyone answers, such as what do I believe about faith, vocation and…
3 questions with Richard Winter
Dr. Richard Winter joins us next Friday for our annual Growth in Grace Conference. He’ll be talking about perfectionism. Tickets are selling out fast, so be sure to purchase them at the book table this Sunday or call the church…
Money, Beauty, Perfectionism, and Me
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Jesus said that. In fact he talked a lot about riches, saying things…