false 42 523 516 true 5882334 read 5 true 1488360 currently-reading 2 true 1488359 to-read 20 false 5116421 prayer 4 false 4914243 commentaries 3 false 5089968 preaching 3 false 1606790 re-read 3 false 5089951 church-history 0 false 1606789 re-reading 0 false 1606807 just-looked-at-the-pictures http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78980712 to: Our Idea of God (Paperback) by Thomas V. Morris
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78980560 to: Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch (Current Issues in Theology) by John Webster
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78980539 to: Evangelical Futures: A Conversation on Theological Method (Paperback) by John G., Jr. Stackhouse
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43078100 to: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church (Paperback) by Alan Hirsch
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71192640 to: Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America (Paperback) by Mike Yankoski
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70815931 to: A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Paperback) by Ignatius of Loyola
Tells the tale of Ignatius of Loyola the founder of the Jesuits from his boyhood, his injury in battle, his conversion during his convalescence, his growing spiritual discernment, his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, his early ministry and education and the founding of the Jesuit order.

This is a quick read (I read it in one sitting). I liked how this book showed Ignatius's fortitude of character and growing discernment in Spiritual matters.

It is an autobiography, but was dictated and is written down in the third person. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70815714 to: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Ávila, Vol. 1 (Paperback) by Teresa of Ávila
This book has Teresa's autobiography. It is very interesting but kind of wordy, lots of tangents, and reflections. It makes it sometimes hard to follow. Worth a read, but I read it along a biography which helped me track what was going on, without getting lost in her descriptions.

The vividness of her visions and experiences of prayer, makes this book a delight to read. The fact that her early confessors thought she was possessed shows their struggle to come to terms with a woman whose prayer life was unlike anything they had ever seen. She saw Jesus (or felt his presence) heard voices, fought off devils with holy water, had a vision of hell, levitated, and was frequently lost in contemplation of God.

Kind of makes you wonder what your impression of this woman would be if you met her ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70815557 to: The Greater Trumps (Paperback) by Charles Walter Stansby Williams
Charles Williams was one of the inklings, and a gifted, albeit strange author. This book is about the intersection of the secular with the supernatural (a Williams fetish). It is probably the only Christian novel I can think about which revolves around a deck of Tarot cards. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70815499 to: Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life (Paperback) by Shirley du Boulay
This was a good biography of an interesting lady. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70815393 to: Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover) by Kathleen Norris
In this book, Norris explores Acedia which is apathy and spiritual boredom (in medieval times it became sloth). She talks about her own struggle with it, mines the Spiritual wisdom of desert monks and Benedictines, and distinguishes it from the psychological illness, Depression.

The sustained criticism of this book is that Norris rambles a bunch. But there is much that is thoughtful, reflective and wise. This book will likely make it on my re-read list as there are things in here I want to come back to. ]]>