Favorite Books Read in 2020
In the previous post, I listed the books I was able to read in 2020. Here are my favorites of those books from different categories. Also included are very short…
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Books Read in 2020
(Yearly books read post side-note: Reader, please feel free to skip this post if it sounds boastful at any point. Personal posts like this on my blog are mainly for…
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Coronavirus Lockdown Recommended Books
In the attached post, we discussed how we each could look back at this coronavirus season and see it mainly as a time we grew in Christ. We have a tremendous…
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Favorite Books Read in 2019
Last week I listed the seventy books I was able to read in 2019. Here are my favorites of those books from different categories. For longer reviews of each of…
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Books Read in 2019
(As a side-note right away: Reader, please feel free to skip this post if it sounds boastful at any point. Personal posts like this on my blog are mainly for…
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The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis Summary, Quotes, and Chapter Outline
Brief Summary of The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man in 1943. In the book Lewis argues we must accept objective value as a foundational reality.…
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The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis Summary, Quotes, and Chapter Outline
Brief Summary of The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain in 1940. It was his first major Christian work. In the book he seeks to reconcile…
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50 Books Read in 2018
In 2018 I did not set out to read a certain number of books. My goal was to read the major works of Jonathan Edwards and of C.S. Lewis, with other books scattered throughout. As the year progressed, I stuck with that, but a) I decided to read even more Lewis—finishing virtually all his works—and b) I ended up noting that at my pace, I’d read almost exactly fifty books. So in November, I planned out the rest of the books for the year to end up at fifty even…
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Favorite Books Read in 2018
In the previous post, I listed the fifty books I was privileged to read in 2018, focusing on Jonathan Edwards and C.S. Lewis. In this post, I’ll give my favorites by categories…
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Sparks and Whispers of Wonder: Reading C.S. Lewis in 2018
Before I list the books I read, I first here want to try to describe what I think makes Lewis unique and why it was just a joy to read him. As noted in the title of this post, the best phrase I could come up with is “sparks and whispers of wonder.” These two nouns, “sparks” and “whispers” summarize much of Lewis’ distinctiveness…
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