God’s been good, giving me a beautiful place to live. I’m constantly learning about the stewardship it takes to care for this particular environment, which helps me appreciate how other places are cared for as well. Pastoral Song: a Farmer’s Journey (2021, Mariner Books) is well worth appreciating. From its unsentimental early tone, the bookContinue reading “Open Book: “Pastoral Song””
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Choice reading for the new year
I learn something from other readers’ year-end lists of favorite books. I’m bound to find something interesting – an author with whom I’m unfamiliar, a title that’s new to me, and sometimes rediscovery of a classic. My own list looks different from what I might have expected when the year began. Let me offer itContinue reading “Choice reading for the new year”
Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent
With thanks to my local library’s interlibrary loan program, I’ve just picked up a book that will keep me occupied during Advent and probably well into January: A Testament to Freedom: the Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ed. Kelly and Nelson, Harper San Francisco, 1995). Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who was part ofContinue reading “Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent”
Ellen Kolb 