What Are You Currently Reading?

[Rational Gaze]

I have the e-book version, which contains both volumes in one. It's on my to-read list. Given that there are books on my to-read list that I have had for 10 years+, it may take me awhile until I get round to it.

[One Bad Pig]

The Christian vs. The University: Fighting the Battle of Ideas on the College Campus by Garrison (Gary) Cattel - written by the man known to Penn State students as the Willard Preacher, this is an anti-Screwtape Letters of sorts; written in the same style, it is advice directed to a struggling Christian college student by a kindly uncle. Recommended.

A Protestant Pastor Looks at Mary by Charles Dickson - written by an ecumenicaly-minded Lutheran minister; recommended with caution, as it fully endorses Roman Catholic mariology (which IMO goes too far).

The Last Sacrifice by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer - preterist-flavored historical fiction (book 2 of a trilogy).

[Carrikature]

I'm reading A Clockwork Orange, but I don't exactly know why. One of those 'classics' everyone must read, I suppose.

[JimL]

I just finished "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver. An exellent read. I don't read a lot of novels and have always had a bias against female writers for no good reason, but picked this one up on a lark and couldn't put it down.

[TyRockwell]

I am reading "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan. It is a fantasy novel in the vein of "Lord of the Ring." It's a very enjoyable read, and the first volume of a series. I recommend it.

[Rational Gaze]

I've read the entire series... apart from the last book. That's still on my 'to read' list.

[One Bad Pig]

I've read the entire series... apart from the last book. That's still on my 'to read' list.

I re-read the entire series through in preparation for reading the last one. I was not particularly impressed with Sanderson's books in general.

[Carrikature]

I re-read the entire series through in preparation for reading the last one. I was not particularly impressed with Sanderson's books in general.

His books completing that series, or his other books? I rather liked the Mistborn trilogy.

[One Bad Pig]

His books completing that series, or his other books? I rather liked the Mistborn trilogy.

His books completing that series. Based on the dialogue and character actions/thoughts in those books (which he described as his own rather than an attempt at emulating RJ), I'm not at all interested in reading his other material.

Now reading:
A History of Christianity in Asia: Beginnings to 1500 by Samuel Moffett
Early Christian Attitudes toward Images by Steven Bigham
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

[Rational Gaze]

I'll be honest, the later books co-written by Sanderson are just as good as those written by the main man himself.

[JB]

Some current reads:

• Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries by Everett Ferguson - Yes, still. I've more or less stopped taking notes, though, because it's getting very repetitive, as one might expect.
• The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, co-edited by William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland - I need to build my tolerance for technical philosophy back up; I'm still swimming my way through Alexander Pruss's fantastic essay on the Leibnizian cosmological argument!
• Teach Us to Pray: Prayer in the Bible and in the World, edited by D. A. Carson - On the dry side, but then again, the essay I'm currently reading ("A Biblical Theology of Prayer", by Edmund P. Clowney) is quite insightful thus far.
• Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility by Duane Elmer
• Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898: Typescript, Vol. 7: 1 January 1871 to 31 December 1880 by Wilford Woodruff and edited by Scott G. Kenney - Yes, I really am still insisting on finishing out the entire nine-volume set, thankyouverymuch; although it does seem to be getting less substantial as he gets on in years.
• Foundations of Pastoral Care by Bruce L. Petersen
• Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction by Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger
• The Book of Psalms: A New Translation and Commentary by Martin Rozenberg and Bernard Zlotowitz - A commentary by a pair of modern rabbis.
• The Vitality of Worship: A Commentary on the Book of Psalms by Robert Davidson
• Christ in the Psalms by Patrick Henry Reardon
• Praying the Psalms in Christ by Laurence Kriegshauser

I finished reading Ferguson and Woodruff here (well, the seventh volume of the latter; still two more to go in the fall). I also added and then finished Fr. Alexander Schmemann's For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy. I also finished reading William Rittenhouse and Moses Dissinger: Two Eminent Pennsylvania Germans, containing two biographies written by Milton Rubincam and Thomas R. Brendle, respectively. In addition, I've added a few more books:

• Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Vol 1), compiled by Fred C. Collier
• Justification and Variegated Nomism, Vol. 1: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism, edited by D. A. Carson, Peter T. O'Brien, and Mark A. Seifrid
• Introducing Theologies of Religions by Paul F. Knitter
• The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis by Francis J. Beckwith and Stephen E. Parrish
• Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution by Denis O. Lamoreux
• John Wesley on Religious Affections: His Views on Experience and Emotions and Their Role in the Christian Life and Theology by Gregory S. Clapper
• Jacob Albright and His Co-Laborers (1883) by Reuben Yeakel

[Rushing Jaws]

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - 553 pages of 593 to go

"The Da Vinci Code" - over 100 chapters to go.

"Inspiration and Inerrancy, A History and a Defense" - H. P. Smith 1893

[KingsGambit]

Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender by John G. Stackhouse

[Kritter]

Was. I say was reading Bart Erhman's Did Jesus Exist....got side tracked and never got past the first chapter. Hmmmm, need to get back on that one.