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Currently Reading:
Closed Communion? Admission to the Lord’s Supper in Biblical Lutheran Perspective (Matthew C. Harrison, John T. Pless, eds.)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (N.T. Wright)
An Explanation of the History of the Suffering and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Johann Gerhard)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody (Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay)
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (John Eliot Gardiner)
Healing Humanity: Confronting Our Moral Crisis (eds. Alexander F.C. Webster, Alfred K Siewers, David C. Ford)
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (Carl R. Trueman)
The Reformation: The Story of Civilization, vol. 6 (Will Durant)
The Possessed (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves (Sam Allberry)
Christ in His Saints (Patrick Henry Reardon)
Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body (John W. Kleinig)
Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications (eds. John Pless and Larry Vogel)
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters)
Love among the Chickens (P.G. Wodehouse)
Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Bernard of Clairvaux)
Mending a Fractured Church: How to Seek Unity with Integrity (Michael F. Bird, ed.)
Sermons for Christmas and Epiphany (St. Augustine)
Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley (Harold L. Senkbeil)
N is for Nativity (Ruth E. Meyer)
On the Apostolic Preaching (Irenaeus)
The Lutheran Difference: An Explanation and Comparison of Christian Beliefs (Edward A. Englebrecht, ed.)
Luther’s Large Catechism with Study Questions (Paul T. McCain, ed.)
Red Rabbit (Tom Clancy)
Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal with Destructive Conflict (Kenneth C. Haugk)
When God Becomes My Enemy: The Theology of the Complaint Psalms (Ingvar Fløysvik)
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape (Andrew Stephen Damick)
On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (Melito of Sardis)
Fruit for the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms (Dennis Ngien)
The Psalms as Christian Lament: A Historical Commentary (Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, Erika Moore)
The Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1 (Philip Schaff)
History of Theology (Bengt Hägglund)
Books Finished (so far) in 2024:
The Brass Verdict (Michael Connelly)
God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) - reread
Ten Ways to Kill a Pastor (Christopher Ian Thoma)
Crossroads (Jonathan Franzen)
The Apocalypse of St. John: A Revelation of Love and Power (Lawrence Farley)
Revelation: A Liturgical Prophecy (Patrick Henry Reardon)
Scarecrow (Michael Connelly)
1776 (David McCullough)
Nine Dragons (Michael Connelly)
Blue on Black (Michael Connelly)
Meditations for Every Wednesday and Friday in Lent, on a Prayer of S. Ephraem (S. C. Malan)
Recommended Reading
Church History:
When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers (Marcellino D’Ambrosio)
Eucharist and Church Fellowship in the First Four Centuries (Werner Elert)
The Church History (Eusebius)
The Democratization of American Christianity (Nathan O. Hatch)
Devotional:
God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Meditations on Divine Mercy (Johann Gerhard)
The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis)
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Words of Strength and Promise: Devotions for Youth (CPH, 2021)
Ethics:
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (O. Carter Snead)
Family:
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Russell Moore)
Fiction:
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Old Man and the Sea (Earnest Hemingway)
The Inimitable Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Carry on, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Thank You, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
History:
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink (Anthony McCarten)
Money:
The Bogleheads’ Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio: How a Simple Portfolio of Three Total Market Index Funds Outperforms Most Investors with Less Risk (Tyler Larimore)
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (John C. Bogle)
Philosophy:
Mind and Cosmos: What the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (Thomas Nagel)
Society and Culture:
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Rod Dreher)
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (Rod Dreher)
Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution (Mary Eberstadt)
Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization (Os Guinness)
The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned the Pandemic into a Catastrophe (Jay W. Richards, William M. Briggs, Douglas Axe)
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Abigail Shrier)
Intellectuals and Race (Thomas Sowell)
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Thomas Sowell)
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West (Michael Walsh)
The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Michael Walsh)
What Is a Woman? (Matt Walsh)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Technopoly (Neil Postman)
The War on the West (Douglas Murray)
Theology:
The Quest for Holiness (Adolf Köberle)
Theology of the Lutheran Confessions (Edmund Schlink)
Life Together (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Thank, Praise, Serve, and Obey: Recover the Joys of Piety (William Weedon)
The Church and the Office of the Ministry (C.F.W. Walther; ed. M. Harrison)
Justification and Rome (Robert Preus)
Law, Life, and the Living God (Scott R. Murray)
The Gates of Hell: Confessing Christ in a Hostile World (ed. Scott R. Murray)
Worship in the Name of Jesus (Peter Brunner)
War:
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Jake Tapper)
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (Sean Parnell)