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“Now, Discover Your Strengths” by Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton Interesting premise: we’ve given much more attention to our weaknesses than our strengths. Organizations and individuals would do better to capitalize on strengths, say the authors, so they’ve worked to categorize and define 33 different …

“Cloud Atlas: A Novel” by David Mitchell Incredibly creative and inventive, this novel spans time with the most creative structure I’ve read. 7 stories are told, split apart and nested together like those nesting dolls that fit inside each other. Each one has a completely …

“The Brothers K” by David James Duncan People have been trying to get me to read this for years, and I wish I would have listened sooner. Baseball, and a painful road for a family to the place of redemption. Not Hollywood style redemption, and …

“The Last Season” by Eric Blehm A quick read that was intriguing, but not destined to last indelibly in the mind. Blehm writes the life story of an eccentric man who served most of his life as a backcountry ranger in the Sierras, and the …

“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell Helpful…

“The Prophetic Imagination” by Walter Brueggemann This book gave voice to things that have been inside me for a long time. Check this post for some more info until I fill this out more completely…if I ever fill this out more completely!

“That Distant Land: The Collected Stories” by Wendell Berry A perfect introduction to Wendell Berry, this includes all of his short stories, written over four decades and covering more than 150 years of the fictitious history of the small, fictional town of Port William in …

“Gilead: A Novel” by Marilynne Robinson Brilliantly written and theologically articulate, this is too close to home for me as a pastor. This novel is written in the voice of an old pastor from a line of pastors, as if it were letters he is …

During the time I’ve had my blog, I’ve always kept a list of the books I’ve been reading. I had envisioned wonderful reviews of every book, but never made that a reality. So I’ve been trying to clean it up and write a little bit …

“The Glass Castle: A Memoir” by Jeannette Walls I suppose if I were to try and pick out a common theme in what I speak and write, this would easily be in the top five: the internal and external pressure to hide who we really …