Unequally YokedI’d love to be part of any impromptu book club, so if you are reading/reviewing any of the below, I’d love to chat and/or have you over for a guest post. If you have recommendations, please let me know in a comment below.
At the beginning of 2011, I solicited reading suggestions from the readers of this blog as part of an New Year’s Challenge. You can browse the complete list of their suggestions.
Read and reviewed:
Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith – Eve Tushnet
“It is Not Good for Man to be Alone” (11/18/14)
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality – Wesley Hill
The Loves We Need from Other People (9/14/14)
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres – Henry Adams
To Mary through Henry Adams (9/13/14)
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away – Rebecca Goldstein
Full Fathom Five – Max Gladstone
Lexicon – Max Barry, The Word Exchange – Alena Graedon
Books that Love Books (4/8/14)
Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job – Kerry Weber
Mercy is Not Intransitive (2/23/14)
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist – Richard Dawkins
Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus – Jorge Bergoglio/Pope Francis
Against Fairness – Stephen T. Asma
In Praise of Particularity? (12/19/13)
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
The Drunk and the Madmen (12/7/13)
The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia – Laura Miller
Must Pity be Hierarchical? (12/4/13)
Raising the Stakes in Stories (12/9/13)
Sex and the Single Christian Girl: Fighting for Purity in a Rom-Com World – Marian Jordan Ellis
The Strangeness of Talking About Sex in Isolation (11/30/13)
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking – Douglas Hofstadter
It’s Hard to Do Vocabulary Drills in Personal Languages (11/25/13)
Two Serpents Rise – Max Gladstone
Interview with the author (part 1, part 2)
The Ones Who Walk Away From Dresediel Lex (10/29/13)
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense – Francis Spufford
Getting a Sense of Sin (10/23/13)
Christianity in Three Books (10/10/13) – Read to find out which
Why Priests? A Failed Tradition – Gary Wills
What ornate vestments you have, Father! All the better to… (9/26/13)
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking – Daniel Dennett
Intuition Pumps and Other (sometimes extraneous) Tools for Thinking (7/14/13)
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy – William B. Irvine
Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life – Elizabeth Scalia
Strange Idols and Strange Identities (6/1/13)
The Three Languages of Politics – Arnold Kling
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm – Philip Pullman
Questing for God in the Land of Faerie (1/23/12)
The Sacred Search – Gary Thomas
An Outward-Oriented Marriage (1/13/13)
The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life – Terryl and Fiona Givens
Mormon Enthusiasm for the Self-Made Man (12/31/12)
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives – Pope Benedict XVI
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Birth of Christ (but were afraid to tweet @Pontifex) (12/23/12)
Catholic Spiritual Practices: A Treasury of Old and New – Coleen Griffith and Thomas Groome
The Examen and Ugh Fields (12/9/12)
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon – Daniel Dennett
Reading Dennett’s Breaking the Spell – A sequence of seven or so posts exploring Dennett’s claims and philosophy
Alone with a Jihadist: A Biblical Response to Holy War – Aaron Taylor
Unarmed Prophets Stuck in a Chinese Room (10/3/12)
Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free – Tullian Tchividjian
Contra Pangloss et Oprah (9/29/12)
Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age – Gregory Wolfe
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant (9/3/12)
When Do You Reject Your Intuitions? (4/16/12)Irrational with Respect to What? (4/19/12)
Caution! Philosophy in Progress (3/16/12)
Trying to Have Aristotle Without Aquinas (1/16/12)
Reading a Book I’d Never Write (1/15/12)
A Good Humored Review (12/29/11)
Made for Another World? (11/6/11)Lewis Trounces Freud (1/22/12)
Meeting Mr. Wrong (Book) (9/25/11)
The Weight of Glory — C.S. Lewis
Greedy Self Denial (8/15/11)
The Problem of Pain — C.S. Lewis
Who Get’s to Use Lewis’s Excuse? (5/29/11)
The Social Animal — David Brooks
David Brooks and the Social Automaton (3/13/11)
[note: post based on except of book, not full reading]
The Euthyphro Strikes Back (3/6/11)
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible — Robert Alter/The Political Brain — Drew Westen
Two (Much Caveated) Recommendations (2/27/11)
Orthodoxy — G.K. Chesterton
“I was born and bred in a paradox patch!” (2/13/11)
Testing the Truth-Telling Thing (2/1/11)
The Case for Faith/The Case for Christ — Lee Strobel
Strobel’s One-Sided Cases (1/23/11)
The Moral Landscape — Sam Harris
Spiritual Atheism — Steve Antinoff
The Closing of the American Mind — Allan Bloom
Flatland — Edwin A. Abbot
“From Dreams I Proceed to Facts” (8/1/10)
David v. God — Mary E. Pearson
A Parable of Talents (7/25/10)
Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis
“Here I am, dressing up as Christ” (7/11/10)
Morality in Multiple Dimensions (4/12/12)
The Flight of Peter Fromm — Martin Gardner
The Anthropomorphization of God (7/4/10)
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