This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read six books and one trade paperback in July. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Star Trek: Holo-Ween by Chris Sequeira. Fun but … Continue reading July Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read five books and four trade paperbacks in June. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of … Continue reading June Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read five books in May. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Reimagining Church as Family by Rich Griffith and JJ Jones. I really … Continue reading May Reading Recap
I just finished reading Reimagining Church as Family by Rich Griffith and JJ Jones, with contributions from Shelly Melia, Larry Fowler, and Kevin Jones. It's an incredibly thoughtful and important book on ministering to and with families of all shapes and arrangements in our current culture. The authors point out that while most churches focus … Continue reading Reimagining Church as Family [book review]
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read eight books in April. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. This is … Continue reading April Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read five books in March. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care … Continue reading March Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read seven books in February. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Anxious for Nothing (Young Readers Edition): Living Above Anxiety and Loneliness … Continue reading February Reading Recap
This year I've decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading ... which means I've started logging everything on Goodreads. I read six books in January, a solid start to the year. Here's the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: The Tangle Box (Magic Kingdom … Continue reading January Reading Recap
I've had Christian Smith's and Amy Adamczyk's book, Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation, on my reading list for a while now. I'm glad I read it, but it is a very research and data focused book. It's not a 'how to' manual, it's a report on … Continue reading Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation [review]
Based on a recommendation from a parent in my church, I recently read Virginia G. Breen and Elizabeth M. Bonker's I Am in Here: The Journey of a Child with Autism Who Cannot Speak but Finds Her Voice. It's not a book without divided opinions about it; Breen's hope that her daughter Elizabeth's autism can … Continue reading I Am in Here: The Journey of a Child with Autism Who Cannot Speak but Finds Her Voice [review]