Shusaku Endo, Walker Percy, Krista Tippett, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cixin Liu, MORE - Sept. 28 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Fri, 09/28/18
September 28, 2018
“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies.
Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another
and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”
― Shusaku Endo, Japanese novelist
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of his death
Although his novels are dark and serious,
Shusaku Endo starred in some hilarious commercials!
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*** Ta-Nehisi Coates – Eight of his Best Essays!
Sunday September 30 is the birthday of Ta-Nehisi Coates,
one of greatest nonfiction writers of our day! Whether you love or loathe his work,
it’s hard to argue that he is one of the most thought-provoking essayists writing today.
His atheistic naturalism, for instance, challenges us as Christians to take the Incarnation,
and our bodies, more seriously. In honor of his birthday, we offer the following list of
eight of Coates’s finest essays from THE ATLANTIC!
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Our Feature Review for this week:
Nods Toward Transcendence.
A Review of Ball Lighning: A Novel
by Cixin Liu (Hardback: TOR Books, 2018)
Reviewed by Jacob Reynold Jones.
H.D. – Five Poems
Sept. 27 marks the anniversary of the death of poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, d. 1961).
We celebrate the occasion with five of our favorite poems by her…
Andrew Root – Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs… [Brief Review]
Honest, Knowledgeable Answers to Pressing Science Queries
A Brief Review of Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs,
and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science
by Andrew Root (Paperback: Fortress Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Leslie Starasta
Andy Walsh – Faith Across the Multiverse [Brief Review]
A Nerdy Faith. A Brief Review of Faith Across the Multiverse:
Parables from Modern Science
By Andy Walsh (Paperback: Hendrickson, 2018)
Reviewed by Fred Redekop
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*** Book Giveaway: Martin Niemoller Biography [3 Copies]
This is an extraordinary new biography of Martin Niemöller,
the German pastor during World War II who stood up against the Nazis,
We’re giving away THREE copies of this excellent new book:
Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
by Matthew Hockenos
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Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books