Passover: Celebrating Now, Remembering Then

Passover: Celebrating Now, Remembering Then Harriet Ziefert and Karla Gudeon Blue Apple Books, 2010 I feel like I should start this review with a disclaimer: I may not be the best person to write about today’s book!  It’s written from a Jewish perspective and includes many details about the traditional Passover Seder… and I’m neither [...]

Just the Way You Are

Just the Way You Are Max Lucado and Sergio Martinez Crossway, 1999 Good news!  I’ve found another book by Max Lucado (in addition to You Are Special) that I think is well worth reading, especially during the present season of Lent.   Just the Way You Are is the tale of five orphans who find out that [...]

At Jerusalem’s Gate: Poems of Easter

At Jerusalem’s Gate: Poems of Easter Nikki Grimes and David Frampton Eerdmans, 2005 One of the things I love most about literature is its ability to precisely name things we are otherwise familiar with, and to help us to see them anew. Poetry, in particular, is the art of naming with precision and care. And [...]

Exodus

Exodus Brian Wildsmith Eerdmans, 1998 I think the story of the Exodus is, hands down, one of the most exciting in the Bible. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most familiar – so much so, that we often lose sight of the drama when we come back to it. But there’s a reason it is [...]

Peter’s First Easter

Peter’s First Easter Walter Wangerin, Jr. & Timothy Ladwig Zondervan, 2000 One of the reasons I’m glad that Easter is around the corner is that I finally get to tell you about Peter’s First Easter! It’s long been one of my favorites and, in fact, it was one of a handful of books that inspired [...]

The Book of Jonah

The Book of Jonah Peter Spier Doubleday, 1985 I love the book of Jonah. I love how richly Christological it is. I love how funny it is. I love Jonah’s grouchy honesty; and I love God’s gracious, hard humor in dealing with him. It’s such an odd book, in so many ways – God is [...]