One of Hitler’s favorite books was Don Quixote, which Professor Jonathan Rose says is “telling.”
From The Literary Churchill, p. 239-40
Interview with Professor Rose in the upcoming weeks…
WHAT HITLER READ
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God, What on Earth are You Doing?
UNCHURCHED AMERICANS
BIBLES TO HOLD!
“Bring back old school print Bibles to read and carry” was my fellow black leather Bible buddy Dave Lomas from Reality San Francisco ‘s mission cry who taught today at Vintage Faith Church. We both have black leather Bibles where we can draw doodles, underline, color and we are convinced your even learn better with them. Which is ironic coming from two of us living in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley where technology rules. I join Dave in the mission to see hard copy Bibles in hand once again and go retro learning and reading.
Dan Kimball
JESUS NEVER TAPPED OUT!
HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN
INTERVIEWER
Do you eat fish?
MARILYN ROBINSON (PULITZER PRIZE WINNER)
I’m generally a vegetarian of the ovo-lacto type, minus the ovo, yet I’m keenly aware of the fact that Hitler was a vegetarian. When he visited Mussolini in Italy he rejected the state dinner. He didn’t drink or smoke. I hold him up as an example of how an aversion virtue can be a negative sign.
IT MAY LOOK GOOD, BUT BEWARE!
SUPERFICIAL PEOPLE
“No one seems to have noticed, that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left of it
(HT: Mark Sayers)
DANGEROUS PASSIONS, DEADLY SINS
My interview with Professor Dennis Okholm on his terrific book:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/05/16/dangerous-passions-deadly-sins-by-dennis-okholm/
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, a former slave, is well worth reading if you have not already done so. Douglass thought highly of John Brown, the firebrand abolitionist, who determined violent means were justified to achieve worthy goals. Ironically, Douglass understood something that Brown did not: the pen is mightier than the sword. Here is the commentary of Douglass upon the death of Brown:
“With the Allegheny mountains for his pulpit, the country for his church, and the whole civilized world for his audience, John Brown was a thousand times more powerful as a preacher than as a warrior.”
(As quoted in Allen Guelzo, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, p. 118).
WAVE YOUR WAND 13.0
I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick? Here is the next installment.
Evan Hock is Pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church. We met in the early 90s during our studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Among the many things I appreciate about Evan is his wonderful wit. Here are Evan’s selections:
Knowing God – J. I. Packer
What Did you Expect? Redeeming the —Realities of Marriage – Paul D. Tripp
The Bible and the Future – Anthony Hoekema
According to Plan – Graeme Goldsworthy
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church – Mark Dever