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February 2012

February 29, 2012

Book Review: Still

I appreciate the way Lauren Winner writes. She is honest, and writes honestly and bravely...

February 23, 2012

Book Review: The Naked Pint

The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune is an excellent book. If the...

February 22, 2012

Book Review: Brew Like a Monk

Brew Like a Monk by Stan Hieronymus is a very valuable resource for anyone who...

February 21, 2012

Book Review: The Oxford Companion to Beer

You can find just about anything you want to know about beer and brewing in...

February 15, 2012

Book Review: Simplifying the Soul

Paula Huston is a lay oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery and Hermitage in Big Sur,...

February 11, 2012

Book Review: Fallen Pastor

We expect our leaders to be better than we are. We assume, deep inside ourselves,...

January 2012

January 15, 2012

Book Reviews

I believe that almost nothing is worth doing unless you can buy a book about...

November 2011

November 26, 2011

Book Review: Prayer in the Cave of the Heart

Cyprian Consiglio is a musician and composer, spiritual teacher, and Camaldolese Benedictine monk; he is...

November 17, 2011

Book Review: A Sunlit Absence

I have read quite a few books about contemplation and people who practice it as...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

Book Review: Take This Bread

In Take This Bread, Sara Miles tells her story. She writes about how working in...

October 06, 2011

Book Review: Incognito

Incognito by David Eagleman is a book about the secret lives of the human brain. Eagleman,...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Book Review: Run With Me

I first met Jennifer Luitwieler a few weeks ago, on Twitter, at exactly the right...

September 01, 2011

Book Review: The Grateful Heart

Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon Au are people who get to the heart of things. ...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

Book Review: Tweedership

Being a leader is, in many ways, more about who you are than about what...

July 2011

July 07, 2011

Book Review: Approaching God

Approaching God by Lisa Borden is not a collection of intricately constructed theological arguments, nor...

June 2011

June 14, 2011

Book Review: Being Wrong

Being Wrong by Kathryn Schultz begins with some very good, and intriguing, questions. Why is...

April 2011

April 13, 2011

Book Review: A Whole New Mind

The books I appreciate the most are the ones that help me see or think...

April 09, 2011

Book Review: Pilgrimage of a Soul

My faith has become more contemplative over the last several years. Sometimes it's a challenge,...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

Book Review: Bible Babel

I read a lot. I read for pleasure, to solve mysteries, to learn, to...

March 25, 2011

Book Review: Scouting the Divine

Scouting the Divine by Margaret Feinberg has set me off on a new adventure, thinking...

January 2011

January 17, 2011

Reflections on Anne Jackson’s, Permission to Speak Freely

I read a lot. I have loved books for as long as I can remember....

December 2010

December 24, 2010

Book Review | For God Alone: A Primer on Prayer

The following is a book review I recently had published on Bonnie Thurston's For God...