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Reading Journal 2024: Before Your Memory FadesAuthor: Toshikazu Kawaguchi The third in Kawaguchi’s outstanding series, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, which transports us as readers to a different cafe with familiar and new faces but with the same opportunity to travel back in time. Rules for time travel stay the same, including the necessary cupContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Before Your Memory Fades”

In today’s interconnected world it’s never hard to find the present trends in christianity when it comes to the things scholarship, theologians, churches are interested in. The book of Revelation is a current trend.The Beatitudes are another current trend, having a moment. I’ve long been fascinated by the Beatitudes. There is good reason to seeContinue reading “The Beatitudes and the characteristics of the Kingdom of God”

“The word blessed, which is used in each of the beatitudes is a very special word. It is the Greek word makarios. Makarios is the word which specially describes the gods. In Christianity, there is a godlike joy. Makarios describes that joy which has its secret within itself, that joy which is serene and untouchable,Continue reading “Blessed: Finding True Joy in the Beatitudes”

Reading Journal 2024: Loving Disagreement: Fighting For Community Through The Fruit of the Spirit.Authors: Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos My awareness of this book and its authors came from being a subscriber to and active listener of The Faacinating Podcast, which both authors co-host with fellow pastor and author JR Foresteros. One of the reasonsContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Loving Disagreement: Fighting For Community Through The Fruit of the Spirit”

Reading Journal 2024: Bookshops & BonedustAuthor: Travis Baldree Legends and Lattes became the literary poster child for cozy fantasy through sheer word of mouth over a very short period of time. Tha author even touches on this fact in the authors note at the end of the book, speaking about the challenge of now writingContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Bookshops & Bonedust”

Reading Journal 2024: My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight For Justice In 1930’s AlabamaAuthor: Joseph Madison Beck While Harper Lee is on record saying that the story of To Kill a Mockingbird was not modeled after Joseph Becks trial case of a black man (Charles White), at least part of this research project,Continue reading “Reading Journal 2024: My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight For Justice In 1930’s Alabama”

Transitions They come in different shapes and sizes. Sometimes they arrive as a matter of intent. From a desire to seek something new, to take on new challenges, to grow. Sometimes they take you by surprise. It forces itself on you, unwanted and unexpected. Sometimes they express optimism and hope, sometimes they rob you ofContinue reading “Transitions: Finding Beauty in the Ugliness of Life”

Fittingly, I started the year with Wright, reading through his earliest work (What Saint Paul Really Said) and ended with his most recent work (Into The Heart of Romans). Inbetween, I finally finished his magnum opus (The New Testament in its World). All three of these books emphasize three crucial facets of Wright’s work- theContinue reading “2023 Retrospective: My Year In Books (Non-Fiction)”

With 2023 having turned the calendar corner, its time to be looking ahead. Looking at the current slate of official film releases in 2024, which, if the last few years have been any measure should be taken more as a starting point than written in stone, the first thing that jumps out is the #2:Continue reading “The Movies I’m Looking Forward To in 2024”

I have fond memories growing up of being that kid in school who would typically end up having most of the box from those infamouse scholastic book fair orders being plopped straight on their desk. Some might have called it a problem. I called it my obsession. There was little I looked forward to moreContinue reading “2023 In Review: My Year In Books (Fiction)”