My To Be Read pile never gets any smaller. No regrets or apologies. For a bookworm like me, the turn of the year brings the cheery prospect of new books ahead. I’m savoring my way through Frank Herbert’s Dune, and I can already see that I’ll be looking for its sequels. I so seldom pickContinue reading “Open Book: faith, art, and a heck of a hike”
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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”
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”
Ellen Kolb 