What I recommend, sometimes what has been recommended to me, for the lifelong pursuit of wisdom
March 31, 2025During Holy Week in 2011, Rowan Williams gave three talks in Canterbury Cathedral on C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. These talks formed the basis of the book recommended here, The…
Reviewed by Susan TiffanyThe Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming” by Henri J.M. NouwenVisitors to the magnificent Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, can drink in the pleasures of the…
What we love matters. We do---by nature it seems and training--love some of the right things. But often in the wrong way, especially by excess. And very often, we love the wrong things. These…
Getting the transformative power of the Scriptures into our lives depends in large measure in getting into them, listening to them when read and preached upon, studying them, calling them to mind,…
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer“I recommend this work without reservation” is the cliché that begins or ends many book reviews. When it comes to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, it is an…
"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.” It's gems like this that have put The…
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…
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…
"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…
