What Are You Currently Reading?

[One Bad Pig]

Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins by Steven J. Friesen
Orthodox Spiritual Life According to Saint Silouan the Athonite by Harry M. Boosalis

[moreta]

Just spent about a week and a half in bed, first with the flu, then with a sinus and ear infection. Got 2 Tom Clancy books read, and and a third one that made such an impression on me I can't remember the title or author. The rest of the time was spent curled up on the couch crocheting and watching Top Gear.

[Benson Shays]

Just finished James McGrath's The Burial of Jesus. Pretty good; I thought McGrath conceded a little too much ground when he came to defending the resurrection, but it's still a good book.

Working my way through Defending the Resurrection and Good Calories, Bad Calories.

[Chrawnus]

I'm half-way through Recollections of Death, by Michael B.Sabom. It's a fairly old book (1982) so it might be a bit dated, but it's still a very good and interesting read. Definitely recommended if you're interested in NDE's, though you might want to read some more recent books on the subject too. Light and Death, also by Sabom, which I recently finished, for example.

[TyRockwell]

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
by Chris Kyle, Scott, McEwen, and Jim DeFelice

I saw it on the History Channel; intriguing.

[TyRockwell]

I was reviewing the lyrics to "John the Revelator," an old gospel blues song written by "Blind Willie Johnson." No doubt the words to the song came by revelation to Blind Willie. They are remarkably prescient, and accurate in how they apply to the Seven Seals of the Book of Revelation. Interestingly, Blind Willie Johnson was a preacher and singer/songwriter who recorded his music, between 1923 and his passing, in 1945. He lived, and preached, and died, in Beaumont, Texas, only about seven or eight miles from where I live, in Vidor, Texas. He died 10 years before I was born. Johnson wrote, "(Keep Your Lamp) Trimmed and Burning," along with several other classic gospel blues tunes you might have heard of. The most famous of his songs, was "Nobody's Fault But Mine," which was later recorded and performed by Led Zeppelin, though they butchered the lyrics. The song is often erroneously attributed to Robert Johnson, another classic blues artist. The cemetery where he was buried, Blanchette Cemetery, was recently discovered in Beaumont. That's right, the location of the cemetery was lost to history and neglect. His actual grave site remains unknown. The two researchers who discovered the location of the cemetery, also erected a monument to Blind Willie Johnson near the entrance to the graveyard.
"Who's that writing? John the Revelator, wrote the Book of the Seven Seals."

[GK Kirbyton]

Reading C.S. Lewis's Prologue To Paradise Lost. I'll be reading Paradise Lost soon for my medieval British Literature class.

[TCapp]

I was reading Ameritopia by Mark Levin, but I managed to hide the book from myself. Now I has a sad.

[Jimm]

I am currently reading Wikipedia articles on various names of people in the animation/illustration industry for homework. I wish I could go to bed!

[One Bad Pig]

The Source by James Michener

[moreta]

The Source by James Michener

I like that one.


I'm reading Sherwood by Parke Godwin. It's a retelling of Robin Hood, set during the reigns of William of Normandy, William Rufus, and Henry Beauclerc, instead of Richard the Lionheart. It's the first of a duology, the second book being Robin and the Sheriff.

[jesusfreak]

I'm currently reading The Resolution for Men by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Randy Alcorn as part of a bible study called Honor Begins at Home based around the movie Courageous. It's a great study and a great book for men. They also have the Resolution for Women in circulation as well.

[Benson Shays]

Just finished Ehrman's new book. It's going to be fun to watch the skeppies turn on Dr. Bart for attacking mythicism.

[JB]

Currently reading:

• Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity, edited by Thomas McCall and Michael Rea
• Doctrines of Salvation (Vol 1) by Joseph Fielding Smith and compiled by Bruce R. McConkie
• Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage by B. Carmon Hardy
• The Art of Helping by Robert R. Carkhuff
• On the Way to Immortality and Eternal Life by J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
• Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition, edited by Kenneth J. Collins and John H. Tyson
• Wilford Woodruff's Journals, 1833-1898: Typescript, Volume 2: 1 January 1841 to 31 December 1845 by Wilford Woodruff and edited by Scott G. Kinney

[Manwë Súlimo]

The wrapper of my Doritos Locos Taco from Taco Bell.