Slow Church, by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
Chris Smith and John Pattison think that church should be less like a drive-through and more like a sit-down restaurant that grows its own vegetables.
Gratitude, by Peter J. Leithart
Peter Leithart’s book can be seen as one long act of ingratitude. Sometimes, he seems to be saying it is more blessed to reject than to receive.
On the Natural History of Destruction, by W. G. Sebald
Once you get hooked on W. G. Sebald's work it is hard not to regard most other literature as frivolous. He is, however, an acquired taste, like single-malt scotch....
Earth from above
The Lovely Bones. By Alice Sebold. Little, Brown, 288 pp., $21.95....