One year ago, I turn on my office computer in the mid-afternoon to see why I had so many messages only to see the news of the attack on the Capitol Building. It is not my purpose to assign blame for that event, it was a grim day in American history and should not be... Continue Reading →
What I’m Excited to Read in 2022
Each year I set two reading goals for the year, one is a number of books to read (usually 25-30 books) and the second, 3-5 books I will prioritize reading. I set a goal that is attainable but not easily, and since I am a competitive person it pushes me to continue to read throughout... Continue Reading →
25 Books Every (American) Christian Should Read
I need to begin this post by again acknowledging my own debt to the Renovare list I posted yesterday, but the aim of the Renovare list is a little too specific. Renovare was writing the list of books on spirituality every Christian should read, but there is far more to the Christian life than spirituality... Continue Reading →
Renovaré’s 25 Books Every Christian Should Read
In 2011 Renovaré published "25 Books Every Christian Should Read" and this list had a serious impact on my life. This is a very good list but I also recognize there are a handful of books that for one reason or another I would change. Today I am posting the original list, with my own... Continue Reading →
Quincy Wheeler’s Top 100 Novels (80-71)
This is our third in a ten-part series in which Quincy reveals his top 100 novels and offers summaries and analysis that help point Christians to the timeless truths contained in these stories. Check out the previous posts part 1 here and part 2 here. (The two intro paragraphs below are the same for each... Continue Reading →
RIF Week
I still remember the emphasis my elementary school placed on reading- RIF (Reading Is Fundamental, book fairs, and of course Book It with the free pizzas. These days I set a goal for what I am going to read during the upcoming year during the last week of the current year, the goal is twofold-... Continue Reading →
Naughty or Nice?
I have little kids, which means this time of year I watch Christmas programs with them and being the relatively strange person I am I cannot help thinking about what these shows are teaching my kids. To many analyzing the philosophy behind kids shows is a laughable, but there are times, and Christmas is often... Continue Reading →
We Need the Spirit
Recently I had a brief interaction with an individual because a mutual friend was celebrating his opportunity to study and posted a picture of a large stack of books. This friend is a pastor and the woman commented that what the Church needs is the Holy Spirit, implying that my friend was wasting his time... Continue Reading →
Hearing the Needs of Others
In preparing for my upcoming lecture on the Story of Christianity I ran across a line that stopped me cold. What we often study in isolated detail as so many examples of literary, legal, and iconographic borrowings from the secular world, if taken altogether add up in themselves to a clue to the success of... Continue Reading →
An Instinct to Fail
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1:28 One argument I often bristle at in a conversation comes when... Continue Reading →
Squinting in the Light 