I'm still reading...

So, what have I been up to reading-wise? I don’t know that any of you were actually asking yourselves that, but I’m going to answer anyway.

• I really enjoyed Richard Beck’s Unclean.
• I read the first chapter of Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy and found it slow-going stylistically. I’ve heard so many folks say so much good about it I’ll keep at it and see if it gets better, though.
• I started O’Donavan’s Resurrection and Moral Order and wow, it’s dense. That’s not necessarily bad, but wow. Of course, maybe I should’ve taken the hint when Alistair Roberts told me that you had best read it slowly.
• I read a quick WEB Griffin novel and a short popular history.

Business trip again next week so maybe I’ll get some more substantive reading done.

As an aside: I mentioned a discussion this week with a couple of co-workers that I’ve logged and rated every book I’ve read over the past 8 years. They looked at me like I was nuts. I trust you, dear reader, won’t judge me near so harshly.

The book pile:

• Surprised by Scripture, NT Wright
• Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong
• Meditative Prayer, Thomas Merton
• Resurrection and Moral Order, Oliver O’Donavan
• Paul and the Faithfulness of God, NT Wright
• A Severe Mercy, Shelden Vanauken
• From Bible Belt to Sun Belt, Darren Dochuk
• Parables of Judgment, Robert Capon
• Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
• Evangelical Theology, Karl Barth
• Confessions of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton
• The Wounded Healer, Henri J. M. Nouwen
• The Monster in the Hollows, Andrew Peterson

Books I’ve started but not yet finished:

• The Kingdom of Christ, Russell Moore
• Jesus Manifesto, Frank Viola & Leonard Sweet
• The Fiddler’s Green, A. S. Peterson

Books I wanna re-read:

• The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, David Dark
• When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson
• Between Noon and Three, Robert Capon

Unread on my Kindle:

• Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture, Brandon Hatmaker
• Center Church, Tim Keller
• The Pastor: A Memoir, Eugene Peterson
• Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity, Frank Viola
• Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis, Robert Edsel
• Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality, Richard Beck
• Why Holiness Matters: We’ve Lost Our Way–But We Can Find it Again, Tyler Braun