Worth Reading
What I recommend, sometimes what has been recommended to me, for the lifelong pursuit of wisdom
Lament For A Son
In LAMENT FOR A SON we meet a preeminent philosopher not as a thinker, but as a father. I first met Nicholas Wolterstorff four decades ago as an undergraduate in the classroom, then then saw him again in a small seminar of graduate...
Celebration: A Story of Suffering and Joy
Celebration? Surely not the first word for the heavy topics of genetically caused illnesses and suffering. But the author, with excruciating honesty, tries to do justice to the truth that in life joy and suffering run together.
Maragret...
Patience: How We Wait Upon The World by David Bailey Harned
"This is among the two or three best books that I have read in the last ten years." That's what I said five years ago about this elegant and very practical essay about the indispensable virtue of patience. And I think that, still. For most...