What are You Currently Reading?

[Crabtownboy]

"The Promised Land," by Mary Antin

This is the story of what Mary found in the United States when her family immigrated from Russia to the US in the late 1980's. Everyone who loves this country and even those who do not should read this book. Her descriptions of why she fell in love with America are outstanding. The book was used as optional and required reading in most civics classes up until about 1949.

 

[Bob Alkire]

Our Riches in Christ by Ray C. Stedman

 

[Crabtownboy]

Thunder Below by Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey

The story of the USS Barb and how submarine warfare was revolutionized in WW II. Fluckey sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in WW II.

 

[Rubato 1]

THe Real George Washington: America's Most Indispensible Man

 

[Bob Alkire]

THe Real George Washington: America's Most Indispensible Man

I'll have to get it. I happen to believe he was America's Most Indispensible Man. Does it have much to say about his faith or lack there of. I read books about him that, some go one way and others go another.

 

[Crabtownboy]

The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton

 

[following-Him]

Just started reading "Christ The Key", by Kathryn Tanner.

 

[baptistteacher]

The Physics of Christianity, by Frank J. Tipler.
Claims to be Physics written on a popular level, but is a good bit above that. If you've never read on quantum physics, you might be lost from the 5th page.

Deals with singularities, and tries to demonstrate how that witnesses to the fact of a Trinity. Also deals at length with quantum mechanics and wave-particle theory, including constructive and destructive wave interference. Also discusses a theory of a "multiverse of universes" which I'm not sure I could ever buy into.

I'm in the third chapter, and he has yet to do much to tie his theories in to how physics attest to the truths of Christianity. Will give him a bit more time, maybe he needs to lay a good deal of groundwork.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

"Tactical Pistol Marksmanship: How To Improve Your Combat Shooting Skills"

by Gabriel Suarez

 

[Crabtownboy]

Whose Bible Is It?
by Jaroslav Pelikan

Over the millennia, both Jewish and Christian communities have been shaped and reshaped by translations and reinterpretations of biblical writings.

In "Whose Bible Is It?," distinguished religious historian Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale University offers a masterly overview of this complex development of the Bible over the ages. From its beginnings in the spoken word and oral tradition, through the gathering of written books into canons, to the influence of changing interpretive methods, Pelikan weaves a tapestry of the power of the Word to mold religious communities, nations, and culture.

This engaging, concise, and highly readable work demonstrates that the most influential book in Western civilization has always held different meanings for different peoples. Yet it represents fundamentally a "testimony of faith in the action of God."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0531/p15s01-bogn.html

 

[Gwyneth]

`At Home` - Bill Bryson:thumbs:

 

[exscentric]

Caffeine by Ryan Grabow available at http://www.egrabow.com/rm.php?e=Caffeine or search for it at http://manybooks.net

"This is the official page for my debut novel, Caffeine. I am branding it as "my unashamed attempt at Philosophical (Christian) Science Fiction," which is indeed what it began as."

"Brandon Dauphin feels like a dying ember. He’s jobless and feels worthless, and falling in love has only made his problem worse. In an authoritarian and overstimulated 22nd-century America, all he can do to relieve his pain is indulge in the computer-simulated fantasies of a network called Dynamic Reality, until a virus takes control of the simulation. Unable to return to the real world, Brandon finds that the virus shares his questions about existence, and that she will stop at nothing for her answers."

 

[Rhetorician]

Reading Respons

I am reading David Platt's Radical.

Very good food for thought.

"That is all!"

 

[Txspurgeon]

I am also planning on reading David Platt's Radical. I am a book nut, so I have several going:

Bible-------------God
Now that's a good question---R.C.Sproul
Ashamed of the Gospel-----John Macrthur
Holiness-----J.C. Ryle
A Quest for Godliness-----J.I. Packer
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life---Donald Whitney

..Got some Spurgeon in the pipes, need to finish some of this stuff first. LOL

 

[Crabtownboy]

Mosby's Men by John Henry Alexander. The memoirs of Alexander and his experiences as one of Mosby's men.

 

[thegospelgeek]

"Green" by Ted Dekker and "Last of the Mohiccans" James Fennimore Cooper

 

[Bob Alkire]

Heaven by Randy Alcorn.

 

[FriendofSpurgeon]

Recently finished Sacred Parenting by Gary Thomas, same author of Sacred Marriage.

Now reading The Prodigal God by Tim Keller, senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in NYC.

 

[Crabtownboy]

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamin Ansary.

A memoir of man of both cultures.

 

[Bob Alkire]

"Absolutely Free" by Zane C. Hodges