Read any good affirming/challenging books steeped in faith lately?
I am 2/3 of the way through "The Irrational Season" by Madeleine L'Engle, and have found it to be very life-affirming and faith-affirming. She is insightful and honest about her doubts and struggles. I think I am especially enjoying this book because of the season of life I'm in right now - busy with kids, trying to define how to share my faith and beliefs with them, trying to redefine who I am now in middle-age...
I love Echoes of His Presence which you can get used on Amazon pretty cheap most of the time. It gives a good picture of life at the time of Jesus' time on earth. Each chapter covers a different event in a Jewish person's life from weddings to festivals mixing in Biblical facts with a narrative of fictional characters and how they could have reacted during that time. From what I remember it's written by a man who has been studying in Israel Jewish culture and history.
I also recently got A Man Called Peter and a few other books by him and his wife. I loved the movie, and I hope the books are just as good or better.
DH just fininshed Praying the Book of Revelation by Towns. He said it's a great devotional book that really makes you think. He liked it so much I just bought him two more such books for Christmas including Praying the Gospels and Praying Paul's Letters.
That first one sounds very interesting to me. I would like to know and understand more about the Jewish customs I've read about.
I haven't heard of the movie A Man Called Peter. I assume it is about Peter the disciple's life, yes?
Are the praying through books deep reading? They strike me as something you couldn't read a page here and there - you'd need to have time to sit down and chew on it.
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No, it's actually about a preacher from the 1940s, but it does sound like a title of a book about Paul from the Bible. I first heard about Rev. Peter Marshall in school I think, and decided the movie might be worth a watch. He was a preacher and Chaplain of the United States Senate. I rented the DVD about his life and really liked it, so I ended up buying a used copy. His widow Catherine Marshall wrote the novel Christy which was made into a TV show back many years ago. They had a hard life at times, but their faith was very amazing.
The Revelation book DH read just a few pages a night and if I remember correctly and he said it was written to be read that way, as a short devotional. The nice thing about Towns writting is it's usually down to earth. I have his intro to Theology book and it's a good, simple reference, but out of print and used copies are pretty expensive these days.
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