Birthday gift cards to Borders make me very happy. I picked up two books I’ve really been wanting today: Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God, and Alister McGrath’s Christianity’s Dangerous Idea. I can’t wait to get to them, but they’re several books down the list (which means, yes, Chris, you can borrow them if you’d like…)
St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow. Last year, I had a pretty good drinking night. This year, the budget’s a bit tighter, so it’ll be a bottled Killian’s Irish Red at home. Something would feel not quite right about having a big drinking night during Holy Week anyway, I think.
And speaking of Holy Week, I’ll be posting a few Michael Card performances as a way of observing Holy Week. There are few Christian musicians I can tolerate these days, but Michael Card is tremendous, especially when it comes to songs that are thematically linked to the major events of the Christian calendar.
Finally, stay tuned at The Hog’s Head (and check out the new blog if you haven’t yet!). I’ll be doing a Book Giveaway there – Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, which I’ll be reviewing here and at that blog.
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The queue is long, the time is short, my friend. Looking forward to Keller’s book; but not until I get through my work sh-tuff: Baxter, D.A. Carson’s “The Cross and Christian Ministry,” Guder’s “Missional Church” (the flagship on that topic, I believe), Edgar’s, “Truth In All It’s Glory,”; for Rec: as much Cormac McArthy as possible, Faulkner on slow-drip and your too-dang-long posts on racism. So I’ll be borrowing Keller, uh, hopefully before summer.
I’ll be looking forward to Michael Card…I actually got to see him in concert once. I love his music for its sound obviously, but as much for its doctrinal “sound”ness too.
I saw him in concert around Christmas time a few years ago. Tremendous.
Uhh…just got Keller’s book in the mail today. Guess I forgot I ordered it. Weird.
Ha! That’s a nice surprise. I can’t wait to get to it, but I’m still finishing up N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope, and then I’m moving on to Eugene Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places and The Jesus Way. After those two, I’ll finally get to Keller, and then McGrath.
And that’s just the theological reading! I’ve got myself in this semi-consistent pattern now in which I’m almost always reading at least one work of fiction, one of literary criticism, and one of theology. The fiction and the literary criticism are both on “slow drip” now – Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and Ward’s Planet Narnia.