Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Psalm 96:2 I started praying the Psalms as a spiritual discipline sometime in 2014. I had read Scot McKnight's Praying with the Church, and I was inspired to take on the Christian tradition of praying the prayers of the saints. I started with Phyllis Tickle's The Divine Hours, as this collection was recommended… Continue reading Book Review: Wright’s ‘The Case for the Psalms’
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Book Review: Berry’s ‘The Unsettling of America’
I first heard of Wendell Berry and his The Unsettling of America when I was a college student struggling to identify a study major. I had enrolled with a plan to study agriculture. I loved animals and was thankful to land a job at the college dairy my first semester. But as I got deeper… Continue reading Book Review: Berry’s ‘The Unsettling of America’
Book Review: Pitre’s ‘Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary’
A collage of images from pop culture made up my earliest understanding of St. Mary – pictures picked up in the childish ways we begin to learn anything. There was the illustrated Mary in my Golden Book. There was the pink-robed Mary in the tiny children’s nativity my mom ordered from Avon. The image that… Continue reading Book Review: Pitre’s ‘Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary’
Book Review: Sutton’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”
I still remember the first time someone explained the Anglican view of Baptism to me. It was 12 years ago, and I was an Evangelical college student, listening to a lecture on the Reformation. Our instructor was Anglican, and as a part of his discussion, he explained the early Reformed view of Baptism. I don’t… Continue reading Book Review: Sutton’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”
Book Review: Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’
I finished listening to Anthony Esolen's Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture this week. I discovered Esolen reading Touchstone magazine, and I found his lecture at their Fight or Flight conference to be particularly compelling. When I heard he had a book out on a similar topic, I used an Audible credit to download… Continue reading Book Review: Esolen’s ‘Out of the Ashes’
Incandescent Ink 