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January 11, 2009
> 11:12 PM
friends with books  My friend Mike Bishop has done writ him a book! Congratulations, Mike. Mike is a good man. He's been working on this for a while and finally got 'er done. It's called What Is Church? A Story of Transition. Check it out. Here are some links.- The Book Website - Mike's blog - Publisher’s Website - The book on Mike's Amazon store  A common friend of both mine and Mike's - Todd Hunter - also has a book out - Christianity Beyond Belief: Following Jesus for the Sake of Others. I have great respect for Todd as a Christian leader. He is a wise man. Check Todd's book out too.- Publisher's website for the book. - Todd's website. - The book on Amazon. I haven't read either book, but these guys are my friends. There will definitely be something worth a read between both sets of covers. Hopefully I'll join their ranks one of these days. It's a lot of work, I'm sure they both could tell me, but it's one of my goals to write at least one book. 0 comments
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permalink | e-mail me | January 03, 2009 > 5:25 PM books and vision  Liz got me an Amazon gift card for Christmas. Here are 4 books I ordered on Christmas day. I'll probably have them all read a couple of years from now. ha! Seriously, that's not far off. They look good though.- A Monastic Vision for the 21st Century - various - The Way of The Mystics - John Michael Talbot - Encounters with Silence - Karl Rahner - The School of Charity - Thomas Merton Hopefully, I can get something good out of all of these books. I don't want to "overeat." It's like going to a buffet in our day and time with spiritual books. There's tons of good stuff there, but should you eat it all at once? Can you? Well, no and no. I'll try to pace myself. There are a lot of books on Monasticism from one perspective or another that I'd like to get under my belt in the next couple of years. The timing of our rural monastic community is not what I once thought it was. It's hard to get timing for visions and vocations like that down pat. You think you'll be in full swing with it at a certain point, and then this comes up, that happens, God opens your eyes wider than they were open, or disciplines you, or whatever. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen. It just means His time is better than my time. As far as I can discern, that is still our goal, our vocation. Give us Grace to walk this road, Father. Labels: books, monasticism 0 comments
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