Tagged

A while back, Kelly Flanigan, a friend from Luther Crest Bible Camp days, Tagged me. She asked me to list the last five books I've read and to answer some other questions. I don't remember the questions, but here are some books I've read recently:

Ethics, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer....it's a heavy tome written by the Lutheran pastor Bonhoeffer during WWII in Nazi Germany. Very good but slow reading. Powerful messages throughout his writings and deep theological issues discussed at length.

Prep, by Curtiss Sittenfeld....it's about a teenage girl at a private boarding school out. It's fiction. I don't usually read fiction, but this was good. It grabbed my attention and I may have to refer back to it when my girls become teenagers. Funny and fun. Painful at times.

Red River Rising, by Shelby...about the Red River flooding in Grand Forks 1997. It may be considered fiction as well. Lots of technical data about the river flooding, etc. but a lot of interesting stories told by those who experienced the flood firsthand.

Night, by Elie Wiesel.....about a survivor of the Holocaust and his father being sent to the concentration camps. So powerful. I couldn't put it down. I read it for God, Evil and Suffering, a class I'm taking right now. It fits the theme of the class.

The Pulse of Creation, by Paul Sponheim...one of my professors at Luther, Sponheim is a Systematics Theologian. It means a he has framework for looking at the Bible, Creation and life in general. Very good book. I can't read too much at a time. I have to let it sink in and then go back and read some more. Thought provoking.

That's all for now.