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”
Tag Archives: book review
Open Book: Welcoming Spring
Welcoming spring, observing Lent: it’s a season of new books for me. I often select a familiar devotional to read during Lent, and sure enough, there’s Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ in this year’s rotation. I’ve added a work of fiction that’s a stretch for me on several counts: Silence by Shūsako Endō, first publishedContinue reading “Open Book: Welcoming Spring”
Open Book: a suffragist, an astronaut, and an Adoration companion
Timely reading, entirely coincidental: a few days before the U.S. Capitol became the scene of violence and death, I began reading Jailed for Freedom: the Story of the Militant American Suffragist Movement by Doris Stevens. Written a century ago, it’s almost painfully relevant now. Stevens was one of the “Silent Sentinels” who stood in ongoingContinue reading “Open Book: a suffragist, an astronaut, and an Adoration companion”
Ellen Kolb 