Category: Books I’m Reading (2022-present)

Summarizing my current reading material — in hopes others might join me in reading some of it

A reading from The 60s: The Story of a Decade (The New Yorker) – HANNAH ARENDT on anti-Semitism & lessons gleaned from the trial of Adolf Eichmann 
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Earlier this week, I published a blog post featuring a passage from a James Baldwin essay taken from the book, The 60s: The Story of a Decade, published in 2016. All essays in the book were published in The New Yorker magazine during the 1960s. In that post, I promised further blog posts based on Read more . . .

A reading from The 60s: The Story of a Decade (The New Yorker) – JAMES BALDWIN on teaching America’s history of white supremacy and oppression 
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Last week, I pulled from the bookshelves in my study a book that has sat unread for years and began reading it. Titled The 60s: The Story of a Decade, and published in 2016, it gathers essays by some of the most insightful and literary thinkers and writers of the 1960s, all published in The Read more . . .

REVIEW – The Word Made Fresh: Preaching God’s Love for Every Body (GEORGE A. MASON)  
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 (NOTE: I published a much shorter version of this review on Amazon.com this past Saturday night. This is the complete original version, which I cut to fit Amazon’s standards.) My wife and I joined Wilshire Baptist Church in August 2004, on the very Sunday that Wilshire was celebrating George Mason’s 15th anniversary as senior pastor. Read more . . .