Tag: book review
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Healing Spiritual Wounds, an interview with Carol Howard Merritt
Carol Howard Merritt gently unspools the tightly wound messages of shame and guilt that strangle spirits and cause damage to body, soul and relationships.
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There’s a Woman in the Pulpit, a biased book review
I contributed an essay to this anthology written by clergywomen, about our lives in and out of the pulpit.
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The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law’s Memoir of Caregiving
“The Fifth Season” is an honest, yet poetic, account of a difficult experience: caregiving for an elderly person. An added complication is that the person requiring care both is/isn’t a relative. She is in that unique role: mother in law. The author, Lisa Ohlen Harris, brings all of herself to this work: her compassion, her…
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Leaning In? Thoughts on Partnership
It’s not just a matter of “leaning in.” One has to ask: Leaning in to what?
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The Year of Living . . . with a Beard
After reading A.J. Jacob’s book,?The Year of Living Biblically, I decided to follow a friend’s recommendation and read Ed Dobson’s book The Year of Living Like Jesus. The two books are quite different. Jacobs was raised as a secular Jew, and his book feels a bit like a stunt, a follow-up to spending a year…
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Tiger Mother
I can’t recall a book that has gotten as much publicity as Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Clicking that link will bring you to an excerpt (in case you somehow missed the hubbub). What are my thoughts? 1. I don’t believe that something is fun only when you’re good at it and…