The Stranger in the Lifeboat By Mitch Albom Harper, pp. 271, $23.99 As an Amazon Associate, TLC earns from qualifying purchases. Review by Christine Havens Mitch Albom’s latest novel, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, opens with a mystery. Survivors from a shipwreck, adrift in a lifeboat, pull a young man from the ocean. It’s been three days since the yacht they … [Read more...] about Superficial, but Still Appreciated
Archives for May 7, 2022
Establishment, Virtue, and Perfect Freedom
WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy By Michael Knox Beran Pegasus, pp. 530, $30 As an Amazon Associate, TLC earns from qualifying purchases. Review by W.L. Prehn Michael Beran’s great book appears for most of the journey to be an elegy or an epitaph, but in the end it is neither. WASPs is rather a sauntering, fascinating, brilliant, and … [Read more...] about Establishment, Virtue, and Perfect Freedom
Light on a Crucial Theological Voice
Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict By Christiane Tietz Translated by Victoria J. Barnett Oxford, pp. 480, $32.95 As an Amazon Associate, TLC earns from qualifying purchases. Review by J. Scott Jackson From his childhood in Bern, Switzerland, Karl Barth showed a penchant for starting brawls, just as his revolutionary theology still inspires debate five decades after … [Read more...] about Light on a Crucial Theological Voice
Playing Dress-up
By Ed Little A Reading from Colossians 3:1-17 1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, 3 for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will … [Read more...] about Playing Dress-up