Current Reads

I haven't updated my reading list for a while.   I always love reading magazines.  I have way too many subscriptions to keep up with right now.

I love Southern Living.  It has the best recipes!  I also love looking at their home ideas and the articles on traveling in southern states.

I also enjoy reading Christian History magazine.  It is now edited by my professor Chris Armstrong, who blogs here.  The last issue was on hospitals and health care - I learned so much.  I can't wait to see what they come up with next.  The hell issue was great too.

I also regularly read Sprint Cars & Midgets, produced by another friend of mine, Doug Auld.  If you enjoy dirt track racing a la World of Outlaws and USAC, this is the magazine for you.  David Argabright, one of my favorite authors, writes a fiction serial for them.

I've been slogging through Bryan Chapell's Christ-Centered Preaching.  While it is a good book, it is a bit heavy for me to constantly read (like I have time to read a lot of extra things anyway!). 

I also started Christopher J.H. Wright's Old Testament Ethics for the People of God.  Again, I need to take time to chew on this as I read it.

One book I cannot put down right now is Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light.   I had put off buying it for awhile because I feared it would be fascinating.  It is.  The book consists of a look at Mother Teresa's life interposing her private correspondence with her confessors, spiritual directors and superiors.  In it, she gives a glimpse at how she felt her relationship with God and Jesus was progressing (mostly along the lines of the "Dark Night of the Soul").  Surprisingly, after her initial calling, she never felt that she connected with Jesus, but she kept pursuing the plan He had given her.