Finished Reading (2023): Life Worth Living by Miroslav Volf 📚
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Finished Reading (2023): Quiet Power & Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain 📚
Finished Reading: The Home of God by Miroslav Volf 📚
The New Jerusalem does not compensate for anything; it is the final form of the true life to be lived in history, whether in affliction or in joy. This story as a whole makes the life of the follower of Christ intelligible.
I love reading anything from Volf. His perspective is always fresh and clarifying. I’m really looking forward to his next book, which comes out next week—especially because anything with an endorsement from Marilynne Robinson is worth reading. (Thanks to my friend Luke for pointing that out!)
Jonathan Raban, Richard Wilbur, and Christian Wiman—a thought on what was missing in Raban’s Bad Land 📚
Finished Reading: Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman 📚
For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to Goduntil my fixed self, my fluorescent self
my grief-nibbling, unbewildered, wall-to-wall self
withers in me like a salted slug
Finished Reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 📚
“…sketching a fantastic future for the land, with an Olympian disregard for what was actually here.”
We watched John Wayne’s McLintock no less than 100x on VHS growing up. It’s not Montana, but this scene kept coming back to mind.
Finished Reading: Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartaigh 📚
Thin places are double rooted.
I only got through part 1. It’s beautifully written and full of heart, but the chapters are a bit repetitive. I needed to move on to something else, but I do recommend it.
📚 Finally! I have looked for Richard Wilbur in every bookstore in every city I have visited, and… I still never found him. No stores seem to think he’s worth the shelf space. (I know, that is crazy!) Ordered this one from Country Bookstore in Bozeman. 😁
Finished Reading (2023): The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor 📚
A necessary reread. A couple thoughts and takeaways here.
Finished Reading (2023): The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor 📚
This year’s first reread. A lot of talk about certain freedoms has tended only “to thicken the darkness around the moral ideal of authenticity.” Taylor would rightly like to see it, uh… unthickened. Since I don’t know that it’s any less thick than it was 30 years ago, the need remains the same. A few thoughts here.