This & That

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I'm reading a book Discovering North Carolina which has ...

One last bit from the book I've written about the last couple of days. I enjoyed this section under "God Can Take It."   I co...

Just something I wanted to note from the book I mentioned yesterday. "If there is one uncontestable theme in the Book of Job it...

Have you ever started reading the Book of Job, been amazed at how much he suffered, and how well he seemed to accept the bad things in life ...

Someone shared these on Facebook from a book she was reading.  I liked them, and wanted to keep them somewhere easy to find.

I "liked" some Facebook page awhile back, and I read this on my news feed today. What do you think? "To teach a c...

In my last post, I mentioned reading Paul Among the People by Sarah Ruden, and talked about hair and veiling and Paul's instructions ...

I have a relatively new Facebook friend and she's Jewish - my first Jewish friend! I met her on a HuffPo link. I liked one of ...

I was reading a book the other day about women in Afghanistan.  So much of what happened, many Muslims would argue is not true Islam . Among...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Two stories from the current book I'm reading, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Bet...

First of all, Merry Christmas!  Between me and Andrew, we got sixteen books this month!  I started reading Encounters with Jesus by Gary M....

I love what Rachel Held Evans concluded in her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood which I received for Christmas - yay! "The Bible...

"Every war needs killers and they can always be found. We always put ourselves in the skin of the victims and not of their killers - w...

The importance of land is a recurring theme in God Is Red by Vine Deloria, Jr.  You would have thought the name of the book would have gi...

"If the Christian religion is a victory over death, why do Western peoples who have had the benefits of the Christian religion for two...

It's the last few hours of January and I just now finished the final pages of a pretty big book. Yay, I am glad I finished it in time t...

This was just something I read in a magazine a few days ago that I liked as it was a timely reminder for me as I've struggled with my th...

A few last notes from Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson Keep in mind the author believes some of the books attributed to Paul...

[W]e are compelled to wonder and awe at the fact that out of  this strict and monotheistic religion, there was born such an all-but-idolot...

The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine Here are my last notes from this book. See t...