| kindness |
Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13 |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| servanthood |
Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13 |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| immigrants |
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean |
Caputo, Philip |
| Elvis Presley |
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean |
Caputo, Philip |
| prosecution |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Traver, Robert |
| laughing |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Traver, Robert |
| trial |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Traver, Robert |
| law |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Traver, Robert |
| sheriffs |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Traver, Robert |
| Yankees |
October 1964 |
Halberstam, David |
| Acts 3:6 |
Is There any Word from the Lord? |
Nelson, Douglas E. |
| treasure in an earthen vessel |
Is There any Word from the Lord? |
Nelson, Douglas E. |
| misery |
Second Opinion: A Doctor’s Dispatches from a British Inner City |
Dalryample, Theodore |
| cruelty |
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir |
Wolff, Tobias |
| power |
Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13 |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| suffering |
Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13 |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| pleasure |
Grace Notes: Daily Readings with a Fellow Pilgrim |
Yancy, Philip |
| service |
Grace Notes: Daily Readings with a Fellow Pilgrim |
Yancy, Philip |
| laughter |
“How Shall We Then Laugh?” in his Literature and Theology as Amiable Companions |
Van der Weele, Steve J. |
| aging |
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, trans. and with an Introduction by Philip Freeman |
| saints |
A Diary of Private Prayer in Devotional Classics |
Baillie, John, ed. Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith |
| prayer |
A Diary of Private Prayer in Devotional Classics |
Baillie, John, ed. Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith |
| gluttony |
The Dark Night of the Soul in Devotional Classics |
John of the Cross, ed. Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith |
| pride |
The Dark Night of the Soul in Devotional Classics |
John of the Cross, ed. Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith |
| Islam |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 |
Wright, Lawrence |
| martyrdom |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
Wright, Lawrence |
| rage |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
Wright, Lawrence |
| shame |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
Wright, Lawrence |
| heaven |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| temperament |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| Christianity |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| Golden Rule |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| slacking |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| immortality |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| character |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| morality |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| God's love |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| repentance |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| atonement |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| free will |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| joy |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| goodness |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| religion |
Mere Christianity, in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| God |
Mere Christianity in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics |
Lewis, C. S. |
| slavery |
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism |
Baptist, Edward E. |
| Civil War |
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism |
Baptist, Edward E. |
| happy endings |
“Hope is More Than Happiness” |
Paterson, Katherine |
| Charles Dickens |
“Hope is More Than Happiness” |
Paterson, Katherine |
| friendship |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| friends |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| lovers |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| independence |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| Gift-love |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| tyranny |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| manners |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| courtesy |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| rudeness |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| patriotism |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| egoism |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| Need-love |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| love |
The Four Loves |
Lewis, C. S. |
| omnipresence |
“Ubiquity” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| theology |
“Theology” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| jokes |
“Joke” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| euphoria |
“Jogging” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| humility |
“Humility” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| hatred |
“Hate” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| gluttony |
“Gluttony” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| faith |
“Faith” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| envy |
“Envy” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| doubts |
“Doubt” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| gluttony |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| addiction |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| pleasure |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| death |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| name |
“Buechner” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| food |
“Bread” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| boredom |
“Boredom” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| longing |
“Beauty” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| baptism |
“Baptism” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| charitable giving |
“Avarice,” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| anger |
“Anger,” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| angels |
“Angels,” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| nature |
“Nature,” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| coincidence |
“Coincidence,” in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’S of Faith |
Buechner, Frederick |
| hospitality |
The Odyssey of Homer |
Homer, trans. Robert Fagles |
| vanity |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| grace |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| sin |
The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring |
Bazyn, Ken |
| evil |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| numinous experiences |
“The Fog Horn” |
Bradbury, Ray |
| prayer |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark |
| literature |
“A Literary Education” |
Epstein, Joseph |
| numinous experiences |
“The Magnificent Defeat” in Thomas G. Long and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., eds. A Chorus of Witnesses |
Buechner, Frederick |
| goodness |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
Lewis, C. S. |
| stories |
All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories |
Maxwell, William |
| newspaper boy |
“Resurrection of a Life,” in John Updike, ed., The Best American Short Stories of the Century, expanded ed. |
Saroyan, William |
| houses |
The Grapes of Wrath |
Steinbeck, John |
| sin |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| mothers |
“Nobody Loves You Like Your Mama Does” |
Keillor, Garrison |
| calling |
The Protestant Mind of the English Reformation |
George, Charles H. and Katherine George |
| injustice |
No Future Without Forgiveness |
Tutu, Desmond |
| caring |
Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life |
Nouwen, Henri |
| grace |
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God |
Willard, Dallas |
| goodness |
Calvinism: Six Stone Foundation Lectures |
Kuyper, Abraham |
| hypocrisy |
Religious Affections |
Edwards, Jonathan, ed. John E. Smith |
| prayer |
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer |
Lewis, C. S. |
| regeneration |
“Miracle on the Beach,” in her Home by Another Way |
Taylor, Barbara Brown |
| faith |
“Billions and Billions of Demons” |
Lewontin, Richard |
| self-deception |
A Pretty Good Person |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| love |
Religious Affections |
Edwards, Jonathan, ed. John E. Smith |
| providence |
Mystery and Manners |
O'Connor, Flannery |
| weight |
“The Weight of Glory,” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses |
Lewis, C. S., edited and with an introduction by Walter Hooper |
| work |
“The Principle or Foundation” in Ordinary Graces: Christian Teachings on the Interior Life |
Hopkins, Gerard Manley , ed. Lorraine Kisly with an intro. by Philip Zalieski |
| self |
Thoughts in Solitude |
Merton, Thomas |
| desire |
“The Weight of Glory,” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses |
Lewis, C. S., edited and with an introduction by Walter Hooper |
| joy |
The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script |
Darabont, Frank, screenplay and notes, introduction by Stephen King |
| hypocrisy |
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book |
Percy, Walker |
| envy |
“The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered” |
James, Clive |
| Augustine |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| hell |
“Sin, Salvation, Service” |
Stob, Henry |
| evil |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| light |
Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| dividedness |
My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing |
Fraser, Sylvia |
| God |
Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: The Address, Twelve Early Responses, and Six Later Reflections |
Berman, Ronald, ed. |
| by-products |
Mere Christianity |
Lewis, C. S. |
| John Henry Newman |
“Holiness Necessary for Future Blesedness,” in his Sermons and Discourses (1825-39) |
Newman, John Henry, ed. Charles Frederick Harrold Longmans |
| cruelty |
That Day Alone |
Van Paassen, Pierre |
| corruption |
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| prayer |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| dependence on God |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| justification |
The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism |
Hutchison, William R. |
| joy |
Against Heresies, 5.33.3 in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 |
Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson |
| greed |
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat |
Kapuscinski, Ryszard, trans. William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand |
| campus secularism |
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Unbelief |
Marsden, George M. |
| American universities |
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Unbelief |
Marsden, George M. |
| self-doubt |
Deadline: A Memoir |
Reston, James |
| control freakery |
Deadline: A Memoir |
Reston, James |
| Vietnam |
Deadline: A Memoir |
Reston, James |
| golf |
Deadline: A Memoir |
Reston, James |
| LBJ |
Deadline: A Memoir |
Reston, James |
| helping |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
Maclean, Norman, with a foreward by Annie Proulx |
| brothers |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
Maclean, Norman, with a foreward by Annie Proulx |
| fly casting |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
Maclean, Norman, with a foreward by Annie Proulx |
| work |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
Maclean, Norman, with a foreward by Annie Proulx |
| storytelling |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories |
Maclean, Norman, with a foreward by Annie Proulx |
| consideration |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| God |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| sanity |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| life |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| self-knowledge |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| water |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| incomprehension |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| ministry |
Gilead |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| plea bargains |
“Unresolved Evil: On Justice and the End of the Unabomber” |
Gelernter, David |
| vulgarity |
The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism |
Pattison, Robert |
| writing |
Creative Writing: For People Who Can’t Not Write |
Lindskoog, Kathryn |
| writing |
Creative Writing: For People Who Can’t Not Write |
Lindskoog, Kathryn |
| writing |
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery, ed. Sally Fitzgerald |
| work |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age |
Schama, Simon |
| church |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| wonder |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| women |
“The Subjection of Women” |
Mill, John Stuart, written 1869, ed. Jonathan Bennett, 2009 |
| submission |
“By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End” in The Complete Essays of Montaigne |
de Montaigne, Michel, trans. Donald Frame |
| marriage |
For Better, For Worse: Sober Thoughts on Passionate Promises |
Burtchaell, James Tunstead |
| wisdom |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age |
Schama, Simon |
| wisdom |
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life |
Lamott, Anne |
| madness |
Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay |
Midgley, Mary |
| smiles |
The Empty Copper Sea |
MacDonald, John D. |
| willfulness |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| wealth |
“The Shoes of Imelda Marcos” |
Morrow, Lance |
| wealth |
An Innocent Millionaire |
Vizinczey, Stephen |
| Ronald Reagan |
Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home |
Wills, Garry |
| wealth |
“The Crayon Man” |
Yancey, Philip |
| wealth |
“Teaching Johnny Values where Money is King” |
Brown, Patricia Leigh |
| wealth |
“Note on Wealth” |
Marty, Martin E. |
| war |
The Things They Carried |
O'Brien, Tim |
| war |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Sheehan, Neil |
| war |
A Rumor of War |
Caputo, Phillip |
| war |
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 |
Hastings, Max |
| war |
Truman |
McCullough, David |
| war |
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War |
Fussell, Paul |
| Vietnam |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Sheehan, Neil |
| Vietnam |
A Rumor of War |
Caputo, Phillip |
| wealth |
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| wealth |
“Poor Little Rich Boys,” a review of PAINFULLY RICH: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty |
Henriques, Diana B. |
| vanity |
“Notebook” |
Lapham, Lewis |
| riches |
Stranger in Two Worlds |
Harris, Jean |
| war |
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur: 1880-1964 |
Manchester, William |
| walking |
A Separate Peace |
Knowles, John |
| vulgarity |
A Married Man |
Read, Piers Paul |
| vocation |
Under the Unpredictable Plant: an Exploration in Vocational Holiness |
Peterson, Eugene |
| occupation |
The Brothers K |
Duncan, David James |
| virtue |
Losing our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover its Moral Vision |
Wells, David |
| personal disadvantages |
The Mill on the Floss |
Eliot, George |
| vanity |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| values |
Cannery Row |
Steinbeck, John |
| courtesy |
The Descent of the Dove: a Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church |
Williams, Charles |
| unbelief |
Our Knowledge of God |
Baille, John |
| drugs |
Blue Blood |
Conlon, Edward |
| Israel |
“There Is No Stopping” |
Lewis, Anthony |
| celebrity trials |
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson |
Toobin, Jeffrey |
| conscience |
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush |
Meacham, Jon |
| ambition |
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush |
Meacham, Jon |
| bad Christian literature |
“Literature and Moral Purpose” |
Davies, Robertson |
| television |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business |
Postman, Neil |
| religion |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business |
Postman, Neil |
| Job |
“Second-person Accounts and the Problem of Evil” |
Stump, Eleonore |
| suffering |
The Sweet Hereafter |
Banks, Russell |
| Job |
Observation on Job and on Suffering |
Plantinga, Alvin |
| sorrow |
Blessings: An Autobiographical Fragment |
Craig, Mary |
| suffering |
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale |
Buechner, Frederick |
| success gospels |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| success |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| structure |
“In this People’s Court Only One Opinion Counts” |
Meisler, Andy |
| stories |
Iron and Silk |
Salzman, Mark |
| squelch |
“A Note on Dedications” |
Marty, Martin E. |
| squelch |
Scrupulous syntax and speech |
Marty, Martin E. |
| England |
Alistair Cooke’s America |
Cooke, Alistair |
| TV news |
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television |
Ellerbee, Linda |
| golf |
“On Golf” |
Wells, Ronald |
| sports |
Entry on Sugar Ray Leonard |
Marty, Martin E. |
| myopia |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| speech |
“Memorial Minute for W. J. Beeners” |
Bartow, Charles L. |
| 6th commandment |
Small Sacrifice: A True Story of Passion and Murder |
Rule, Ann |
| snobbery |
The Good Times |
Baker, Russell |
| snobbery |
“Reading, Writing, Social Climbing” |
Yazigi, Monique |
| slavery |
Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
| slavery |
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction |
McPherson, James |
| sin |
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction |
McPherson, James |
| sin |
“Character and Other Details on the Clinton Watch” |
Greenberg, Paul |
| honesty |
“On Honesty and Self-Deception” |
Steffer, Lloyd |
| sin |
Speaking of Sin: the Lost Language of Salvation |
Taylor, Barbara Brown |
| sin |
Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder |
Sereny, Gitta |
| Truman |
Truman |
McCullough, David |
| sin |
Feathers of the Skylark: Compulsion, Sin, and Our Need for a Messiah |
Satinover, Jeffrey |
| murderers |
“When the Good Do Bad” |
Brooks, David |
| sin |
Under the Unpredictable Plant: an Exploration in Vocational Holiness |
Peterson, Eugene |
| sin |
Before Truth, the Right Fork: A Theological Reflection on Ministry and Manners |
Portaro, Sam |
| Vietnam War |
“The Long Shadow of Vietnam” |
Morrow, Lance |
| sin |
“The Good War” |
Kreeft, Peter |
| sin |
Damage |
Hart, Josephine |
| irony |
Sullivan’s Sting |
Sanders, Lawrence |
| rebellion |
Distorted Truth: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Battle for the Mind |
Mouw, Richard J. |
| sin |
My Secret History |
Theroux, Paul |
| sin |
The Mark of Cain: Studies in Literature and Theology |
Babbage, Stuart Barton |
| sin |
The Problem of Pain |
Lewis, C. S. |
| sin |
The Screwtape Letters |
Lewis, C. S. |
| sin |
Cannery Row |
Steinbeck, John |
| church |
Churches that Abuse |
Enroth, Ronald M. |
| sin |
Confessions |
St. Augustine, trans. Henry Chadwick |
| sin |
Murder in Little Egypt |
O'Brien, Darcy |
| feature creep |
“Feature Creep” |
Surowiecki, James |
| silence |
Chutzpah |
Dershowitz, Alan M. |
| silence |
The Chosen |
Potok, Chaim |
| silence |
Small World: An Academic Romance |
Lodge, David |
| silence |
Rabbit Run |
Updike, John |
| sickness |
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery, ed. Sally Fitzgerald |
| shame |
Nigger: An Autobiography |
Gregory, Dick |
| shame |
“Shame” |
Karen, Robert |
| shame |
The Problem of Pain |
Lewis, C. S. |
| shame |
Ethics |
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich |
| sex |
“Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity” |
Winner, Lauren |
| self-esteem |
“On Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect” |
Dalrymple, Theodore |
| self-deception |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| self-deception |
A Flash of Green |
MacDonald, John D. |
| self-forgetfulness |
A Circle of Quiet |
L'Engle, Madeleine |
| Hume |
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat |
Sacks, Oliver |
| ego |
Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home |
Wills, Garry |
| dreams |
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs |
Updike, John |
| Confessions |
“Christianity and Literature” in Christian Reflections |
Lewis, C. S. |
| evil |
Sighing for Eden: Sin, Evil, and the Christian Faith |
Willimon, William H. |
| boredom |
Creative Writing: For People Who Can’t Not Write |
Lindskoog, Kathryn |
| self-deception |
An Innocent Millionaire |
Vizinczey, Stephen |
| self-deception |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Sheehan, Neil |
| self-deception |
Vital Lies: Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception |
Goleman, Daniel |
| The Great Depression |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| self-centeredness |
“Preface to the Sermons” in Fifteen Sermons |
Butler, Joseph |
| self-centeredness |
Chutzpah |
Dershowitz, Alan M. |
| voice |
Nothing but the Best: The Struggle for Perfection at the Juilliard School |
Kogan, Judith |
| self-absorption |
The Turquoise Lament |
MacDonald, John D. |
| seduction |
One More Sunday |
MacDonald, John D. |
| secularism |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Wills, Garry |
| sanctification |
The Fruit of the Spirit |
Winward, Stephen |
| salvation |
“’Titanic’—The ‘60s as Sacraments” |
Mattingly, Terry |
| revelation |
The Bible: As If for the First Time |
Nielsen, Harry A. |
| repentance |
“Repenting” |
Buchanan, John |
| apology |
“Sorry Condition” |
Buchanan, John |
| contrition |
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil |
Peck, M. Scott |
| remorse |
“The Current Crisis in Remorse” |
Keillor, Garrison |
| remorse |
“The Growing Role of Emotion in Jury Verdicts” |
Sappenfeld, Mark |
| social class |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| racism |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| Pilgrims |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| Woodrow Wilson |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| American history textbooks |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| Andrew Jackson |
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and A Great American Land Grab |
Inskeep, Steve |
| tediousness |
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| eloquence |
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| pride |
Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| American history textbooks |
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, rev. ed. |
Loewen, James W. |
| fraud |
Help My Unbelief |
Rutledge, Fleming |
| passion |
Help My Unbelief |
Rutledge, Fleming |
| human life: forms and patterns |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| self-sacrifice |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| sermon language: specificity |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| sermon stories |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| shame |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| listening |
Craddock on the Craft of Preaching |
Craddock, Fred B., ed. Lee Sparks and Kathryn Hayes Sparks |
| pulpit rhetoric |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| liberalism |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| Judaism |
War and Remembrance |
Wouk, Herman |
| cultural myopia |
The Search for God at Harvard |
Goldman, Ari L. |
| redundancy |
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War |
Manchester, William |
| fame |
“Visit to Richmond, VA” May, 2000 |
an observer |
| rebuke |
“Responses to Hate-Talk Can Vary” |
Hax, Carolyn in her Advice column |
| reality |
The Plague |
Camus, Albert, trans. Stuart Gilbert |
| love |
“Abraham’s Continuing Journey” in The Collected Sermons of William Sloan Coffin: The Riverside Years, vol. 1 |
Coffin, William Sloane |
| reading |
Thomas Jefferson: A Life |
Randall, Willard Sterne |
| pleasure |
“The Pleasures of Reading” |
Epstein, Joseph |
| Cicero |
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| shorthand |
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| power |
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome |
Harris, Robert |
| racism |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 |
Branch, Taylor |
| racism |
Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South |
McLaurin, Melton A. |
| arguing |
Wisdom and Innocence: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton |
Pearce, Joseph |
| providence |
The Young Lions |
Shaw, Irwin |
| self-vindication |
Resurrection |
Tolstoy, Leo, trans. Louise Maud |
| corruption |
Resurrection |
Tolstoy, Leo, trans. Louise Maud |
| corruption |
Resurrection |
Tolstoy, Leo, trans. Louise Maud |
| shame |
Resurrection |
Tolstoy, Leo, trans. Louise Maud |
| “everybody does it,” |
Resurrection |
Tolstoy, Leo, trans. Louise Maud |
| Indian/explorer relations |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| Indian/settler relations |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| cultural misunderstanding |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| ignorance |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| paternalism |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| slavery |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| freedom |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| oratorical reputation |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| preaching |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| forms of rhetoric |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| gaining eloquence by listening and reading |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| church’s use of rhetoric |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| rhetoric |
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present |
Lischer, Richard, ed. |
| conversion |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| holy disrespect |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| God’s radical love |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| fear |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| saints |
The Collected Sermons of William H. Willimon |
Willimon, William H. |
| Lincoln |
“The Paradox of Lincoln’s Faith” |
Noll, Mark |
| celebrity |
“Wrong End of the Rainbow” |
Gates, David |
| sex |
“The World: The Ascent of Man; What’s It All About, Alpha?” |
Wade, Nicholas |
| sin |
“National Pride Over a Virus in the Philippines” |
Mydans, Seth |
| sin |
“Facing Reality,” in The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| satire |
In Plato’s Cave |
Kernan, Alvin |
| Luther |
From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life |
Barzun, Jacques |
| Reformation |
From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life |
Barzun, Jacques |
| Erasmus |
From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life |
Barzun, Jacques |
| thinking |
God’s Name in Vain: The Rights and Wrongs of Religion in Politics |
Carter, Stephen L. |
| enablement |
“A Hand for the Head” |
Murphy, Cullen |
| torment |
Bodies Electric |
Harrison, Colin |
| irony |
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York |
Caro, Robert A. |
| race |
Native Son |
Wright, Richard |
| hospitality |
“Welcoming the Stranger” |
Jones, L. Gregory |
| compassion |
“Men Behaving Badly” |
Tripp, Nathaniel |
| grace |
The Cost of Discipleship |
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, trans. Reginald H. Fuller |
| cynicism |
“Facing Reality,” in The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| pride |
Reflections on the Psalms |
Lewis, C. S. |
| pride |
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 |
Hastings, Max |
| pride |
Jurassic Park |
Crichton, Michael |
| bleeding hearts |
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees |
Keizer, Garret |
| pride |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| pride |
“Another Look at the parable of the Good Samaritan” |
Cook, James I. in Saved by Hope: Essays in Honor of Richard C. Oudersluys ed. James I Cook |
| pride |
Remembering Denny |
Trillen, Calvin |
| pride |
“The Sin of Pride” |
Tugwell, Simon |
| pride |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 |
Branch, Taylor |
| pride |
The Stone Diaries |
Shields, Carol |
| pride |
The Last Lion. Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 |
Manchester, William |
| self-centeredness |
The Problem of Pain |
Lewis, C. S. |
| pretending |
The Screwtape Letters |
Lewis, C. S. |
| John Calvin |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| preaching |
“Preaching to Unbelievers” |
Ortberg, John |
| preaching |
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale |
Buechner, Frederick |
| preaching |
“Beyond Self-Help Chatter” |
Neff, David |
| preaching |
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
Lamott, Anne |
| preaching |
“Echoes of the Gospel-event in Literature and Elsewhere” |
Rossow, Francis C. |
| preaching |
The Four Pages of the Sermon |
Wilson, Paul Scott |
| preaching |
Why Preach? Why Listen? |
Muehl, William |
| preaching |
“Preaching to Believers” |
Ortberg, John |
| trial summation |
And the Sea Will Tell |
Bugliosi, Vincent with Bruce B. Henderson |
| preaching |
Roger’s Version |
Updike, John |
| preaching |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| preaching |
Between Two Worlds: the Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century |
Stott, John R. W. |
| preachers |
“Colleagues in Worship” |
Gomes, Peter |
| preachers |
Rabbit Run |
Updike, John |
| preachers |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
Steinbeck, John |
| prayer |
Pray and Vote |
Keizer, Garret |
| praise |
Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC |
Buechner, Frederick |
| prayer |
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees |
Keizer, Garret |
| prayer |
The Diary of a Country Priest |
Bernanos, Georges |
| prayer |
The Screwtape Letters |
Lewis, C. S. |
| voting rights |
Review of Why Americans Don’t Vote by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward |
Wills, Garry |
| John Calvin |
The Social Humanism of Calvin |
Bieler, Andre, trans. by Paul T. Fuhrmann |
| poverty |
A Married Man |
Read, Piers Paul |
| JFK |
“Read this Book, Obama,” a review of Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 4, The Passage of Power |
Frum, David |
| creation questions |
Bright Orange for the Shroud |
MacDonald, John D. |
| hair |
“Party Girl” |
O'Connor, Patricia T. |
| oddities |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Wills, Garry |
| place |
In the Heat of the Summer |
Katzenbach, John |
| oddities |
Iron and Silk |
Salzman, Mark |
| perspective |
A Rumor of War |
Caputo, Philip |
| politics |
The Making of the President, 1960 |
White, Theodore H. |
| poverty |
The Fortunate Pilgrim |
Puzo, Mario |
| poverty |
My Secret History |
Theroux, Paul |
| money |
Of Human Bondage |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
| smut |
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| piano |
Body and Soul |
Conroy, Frank |
| character |
“Second Opinions: History Winds Up in the Waiting Room” |
Murphy, Cullen |
| oddities |
The Liberty Campaign |
Dee, Jonathan |
| oddities |
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 |
Manchester, William |
| Nuremburg |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| sanitation |
“The Gospel of Sanitation” |
Marty, Martin |
| wills |
Roger’s Version |
Updike, John |
| homelessness |
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties |
Collier, Peter and David Horowitz |
| euphoria |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
Sacks, Oliver |
| Aslan |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
Lewis, C. S. |
| morality |
The Problem of Pain |
Lewis, C. S. |
| narcissism |
“It’s All About Him” |
Van Drehle, David |
| naivety |
Unholy Matrimony: A True Story of Murder and Obsession |
Dillman, John |
| morality |
“The Good War” |
Kreeft, Peter |
| morality |
The Diary of a Yuppie |
Auchincloss, Louis |
| Germany |
Chutzpah |
Dershowitz, Alan M. |
| rationalization |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| goodness |
Ty Cobb |
Alexander, Charles C. |
| self-deception |
Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay |
Midgley, Mary |
| morality |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
Steinbeck, John |
| hospitality |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| prayer |
“A Labor Not in Vain” |
Stacy, R. Wayne, in The Library of Distinctive Sermons, vol. 2 ed. Gary W. Klingsporn |
| Jesus |
A Month of Sundays |
Updike, John |
| 50s American culture |
The Fifties |
Halberstam, David |
| WWII |
The Fifties |
Halberstam, David |
| character |
The Fifties |
Halberstam, David |
| sexism |
Boom! Voices of the Sixties |
Brokaw, Tom |
| meditation |
Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find? |
Yancey, Philip |
| envy |
Seven Sins and Seven Virtues |
Olsson, Karl |
| contempt |
The Song of the Lark |
Cather, Willa |
| marriage |
“Can the Government Prevent Divorce?” |
Russo, Francine |
| adultery |
A Married Man |
Read, Piers Paul |
| male-female relations |
A Married Man |
Read, Piers Paul |
| manners |
Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn of the Millenium |
Martin, Judith |
| love |
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
Lamott, Anne |
| love |
Damage |
Hart, Josephine |
| parenting |
Home Before Dark |
Cheever, Susan |
| love |
Of Human Bondage |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
| love |
Of Human Bondage |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
| lottery |
“Good Lottery Luck Can Go Bad Fast” |
Dorell, Oren |
| longing |
The Song of the Lark |
Cather, Willa |
| grief |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Didion, Joan |
| permanence |
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer |
Lewis, C. S. |
| Lincoln |
Lincoln |
Donald, David Herbert |
| life |
“Before He Became a Saint,” a review of David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln |
Ward, Geoffrey C. |
| life |
In the Beauty of the Lilies |
Updike, John |
| home |
In the Beauty of the Lillies |
Updike, John |
| certainty |
“Sermon 47” |
Augustine of Hippo in Philip Schaff, ed., A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6 |
| life |
Stranger in Two Worlds |
Harris, Jean |
| Protestant liberalism |
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery, ed. Sally Fitzgerald |
| Jesus |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Wills, Garry |
| thoughtful reading |
Seminary Books of the Semester |
|
| books |
How to Read a Book |
Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Lincoln Van Doren |
| learning |
How to Read a Book |
Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Lincoln Van Doren |
| sins of omission |
“The Duties of a Bystander” |
Press, Arick, et al |
| secrecy |
What was it like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?: An Attempt to Come Closer to Truth |
Neuhausler, Johannes |
| lament |
“Concerning Lament” |
Salters, Robert |
| reproach |
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor trans. Michael Scammell |
| Judaism |
“The Virtue of Hate” |
Soloveichik, Meir |
| joy |
A Separate Peace |
Knowles, John |
| joy |
The Sacred Journey |
Buechner, Frederick |
| joy |
“On Fairy-Stories” in The Tolkien Reader |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
| joy |
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale |
Buechner, Frederick |
| joy |
Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy |
Rawls, Wilson |
| Jesus |
The Divine Trinity |
Brown, David |
| mercy |
Philemon’s Problem: The Daily Dilemma of the Christian |
Burtchaell, James T. |
| Japanese |
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 |
Manchester, William |
| gossip |
Feathers in the Wind |
Willard, Dallas |
| irony |
“What Every Boy Should Know,” in his All the Days and Nights |
Maxwell, William |
| irony |
The Brothers K |
Duncan, David James |
| irony |
Interview of Christopher Andrew, co-author of The Sword and the Shield |
Gross, Terry |
| oddities |
The Last Lion. Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 |
Manchester, William |
| ironies |
The Last Lion. Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 |
Manchester, William |
| life to come |
Self-consciousness: Memoirs |
Updike, John |
| immigrants |
“The Tire Iron and the Tamale” |
Horner, Justin |
| imitation |
The Giant Book of Strange but True Sports Stories |
Liss, Howard |
| hygiene |
Iron and Silk |
Salzman, Mark |
| Great Depression |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| humanity |
Seabiscuit, An American Legend |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| humanity |
Distorted Truth: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Battle for the Mind |
Mouw, Richard J. |
| human nature |
“John Calvin Got a Bad Rap” |
Kimball, Roger |
| horses |
Seabiscuit, An American Legend |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| homelessness |
Condominium |
MacDonald, John D. |
| home |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| bed |
The Song of the Lark |
Cather, Willa |
| God |
Night |
Wiesel, Ellie, trans. Stella Rodway, with a Foreword by Francois Mauriac |
| holocaust |
Night |
Wiesel, Ellie, trans. Stella Rodway, with a Foreword by Francois Mauriac |
| blood |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| history |
“Why Study History?” |
Gagnon, Paul |
| heroes |
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 |
Manchester, William |
| heroes |
The Making of the President 1960 |
White, Theodore H. |
| idolatry |
Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home |
Wills, Garry |
| Pelagius |
Roger’s Version |
Updike, John |
| DNA |
The Genesis Code |
Case, John |
| hell |
The Problem of Pain |
Lewis, C. S. |
| hell |
Institutes of the Christian Religion |
Calvin, John, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, ed. John T. McNeill |
| gratitude |
“Gratitude Grows as Salutary Habit” |
Lampman, Jane |
| grief |
“The Sutton Place Story” in The Stories of John Cheever |
Cheever, John |
| greed |
Wonder Boy: Barry Minkow, the Kid Who Swindled Wall Street |
Akst, Daniel |
| greed |
“All Fall Down” |
Friedman, Thomas L. |
| greed |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| gratitude |
“God and a Grateful Old Man,” from My God and I: A Spiritual Memoir |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| gratitude |
“God and a Grateful Old Man,” from My God and I: A Spiritual Memoir |
Smedes, Lewis B. |
| dignity |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| grace |
Between Noon and Three: A Parable of Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace |
Capon, Robert Farrar |
| grace |
God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903-1990 |
Aeschliman, M. D. |
| grace |
“When Grace Arrives Unannounced” |
Sullivan, Andrew |
| cheap grace |
Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder |
Sereny, Gitta |
| common grace |
“A Kinder, Gentler Calvinism” |
Mouw, Richard J. |
| grace |
“You are Accepted,” in A Chorus of Witnesses |
Tillich, Paul (essay), book edited by Thomas G. Long and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. |
| grace |
Body and Soul |
Conroy, Frank |
| POWs |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| debasement |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| imperialism |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| annoyance |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| Godlessness |
“What Evangelicals Can Learn from Karl Barth” |
Wood, Ralph |
| God |
Miracles: How God Intervenes in Human Affairs |
Lewis, C. S. |
| persistence |
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairy Tale |
Buechner, Frederick |
| God |
Excerpts from the Diary of the Late God |
Towne, Anthony |
| God's sake |
Excerpts from the Diary of the Late God |
Towne, Anthony |
| Sermon on the Mount |
Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific |
Daws, Gavan |
| cruelty |
Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific |
Daws, Gavan |
| God |
The Young Lions |
Shaw, Irwin |
| glory |
East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
| WWII |
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 |
Hastings, Max |
| freedom |
Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay |
Midgley, Mary |
| fruit of the Spirit |
The Fruit of the Spirit |
Winward, Stephen |
| friends |
Bright Orange for the Shroud |
MacDonald, John D. |
| forgiveness |
No Future Without Forgiveness |
Tutu, Desmond |
| forgiveness |
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor trans. Michael Scammell |
| pride |
The Emperor : Downfall of an Autocrat |
Kapuscinski, Ryszard, trans. William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand |
| sincerity |
An Innocent Millionaire |
Vizinczey, Stephen |
| fear |
What Jamie Saw |
Koman, Carolyn |
| fatherhood |
“Here’s a Toast for the World’s Regular Dads” |
Albom, Mitch |
| scholarship |
Small World: An Academic Romance |
Lodge, David |
| fashion |
Cannery Row |
Steinbeck, John |
| fanaticism |
The Brothers K |
Duncan, David James |
| family |
Rich Man, Poor Man |
Shaw, Irwin |
| faithfulness |
No Greater Love |
Mother Teresa |
| faith |
“Staking All on Faith’s Object: the Art of Christian Assurance according to Martin Luther and Karl Barth” |
Olmstead, Richard H. |
| evil |
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps |
Yitzhak, Arad |
| souvenirs |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| comradeship |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| tyranny |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| WWII |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| immigration |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| shame |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| self-deception |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| character type |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| Depression |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
Kennedy, David M. |
| ingratitude |
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa |
Sledge, E. B. |
| hardship |
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa |
Sledge, E. B. |
| confusion |
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town |
Krakauer, Jon |
| 9th commandment |
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town |
Krakauer, Jon |
| humiliation |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| slave labor |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| WWII |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| Dutch people |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| attractions of war |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| human beings |
Band of Brothers |
Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| diction |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| evil |
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War |
Fussell, Paul |
| war |
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic |
Fussell, Paul |
| 9th commandment |
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War |
Fussell, Paul |
| failure |
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television |
Ellerbee, Linda |
| spoiled children |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| faces |
Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness |
Peterson, Eugene |
| excellence |
Men at Work: the Craft of Baseball |
Will, George F. |
| receiving |
A Verse of Matthias Claudius |
Urs von Balthasar, Hans trans. John Riches |
| faith |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| faith |
Our Knowledge of God |
Baillie, John |
| failure |
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| failure |
Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home |
Wills, Garry |
| fighting conditions |
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa |
Sledge, E. B. |
| evil |
Blessings: An Autobiographical Fragment |
Craig, Mary |
| evil |
Renewal as a Way of Life: A Guidebook for Spiritual Growth |
Lovelace, Richard F. |
| evil |
Letter to Neal Plantinga |
Meyer, Galen |
| evil |
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil ** |
Peck, M. Scott |
| evil |
Rabbit Run |
Updike, John |
| evil |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Wills, Garry |
| evil |
What was it like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?: An Attempt to Come Closer to Truth |
Neuhausler, Johannes |
| evil |
East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
| evil |
“Stephen King’s Tragic Kingdom” |
Bauer, Susan Wise |
| evil |
Night |
Weisel, Elie, trans. Stella Rodway with a forward by Francois Mauriac |
| evil |
A Month of Sundays |
Updike, John |
| depictions of evil |
Crossing to Safety |
Stegner, Wallace |
| evil |
Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares |
Valladares, Armando |
| evil |
Roger’s Version |
Updike, John |
| character traits |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| powerlessness |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| LBJ |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| transitions |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| parasitism |
Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay |
Midgley, Mary |
| Churchill |
The Last Lion: William Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-65 |
Manchester, William and Paul Reid |
| inspiration |
The Last Lion: William Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-65 |
Manchester, William and Paul Reid |
| Jonathan Edwards |
“An Overview of Jonathan Edwards’ Theology” |
Marsden, George |
| God and evil |
Night |
Weisel, Elie, trans. Stella Rodway |
| evil |
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder |
Sereny, Gitta |
| evil |
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View |
Milgram, Stanley |
| execution |
Treblinka |
Steiner, Jean Francois, trans. Helen Weaver |
| evil |
Treblinka |
Steiner, Jean Francois, trans. Helen Weaver |
| evil |
“The Lion and the Unicorn” |
Orwell, George |
| corruption |
“What Can the Righteous Do?” |
Nelson, Douglas E. |
| evil |
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness |
Fromm, Erich |
| evangelism |
Our Knowledge of God |
Baillie, John |
| 9th commandment |
‘Reality Gets a Makeover with Words that Polish and Buff’ |
Leo, John |
| vandalism |
‘Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals’ |
Mankowski, Paul |
| envy |
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community |
Anderson, Elijah |
| envy |
Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower |
Alexander, Shana |
| mysticism |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| evil |
No Future Without Forgiveness |
Tutu, Desmond |
| Christianity |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business |
Postman, Neil |
| education |
East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
| ecumenism |
“An Overdue Reminder that Not All is Relative” |
Bethell, Tom |
| environmentalism |
“Wilderness,” in The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought |
Robinson, Marilynne |
| drinking |
In the Beauty of the Lilies |
Updike, John |
| drinking |
The Empty Copper Sea |
MacDonald, John D. |
| drinking |
“Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,” in The Stories of John Cheever |
Cheever, John |
| drinking |
East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
| faith and doubt |
Roger’s Version |
Updike, John |
| children |
The Closing of the American Mind |
Bloom, Alan |
| disillusionment |
The Scarlet Ruse |
MacDonald, John D. |
| desire |
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
Tyler, Anne |
| Lincoln |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
| character |
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full |
Black, Conrad |
| awkwardness |
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full |
Black, Conrad |
| pandering |
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full |
Black, Conrad |
| resentment |
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full |
Black, Conrad |
| Lincoln |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
| Lincoln |
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Kearns Goodwin, Doris |
| death |
“That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion that We Have of Them” |
Montaigne, Michel |
| death |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Didion, Joan |
| presence of God |
“Reflection on Psalm 23” |
Marty, Martin E. |
| death |
Eyes of Prey |
Sandford, John |
| death |
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs |
Updike, John |
| death |
From Beirut to Jerusalem |
Friedman, Thomas L. |
| death |
The Sacred Journey |
Buechner, Frederick |
| death |
The Pilgrim’s Progress |
Bunyan, John |
| death |
To a God Unknown |
Steinbeck, John |
| crucifixion |
The Giving and Taking of Life |
Burtchaell, James T. |
| virtue |
The Giving and Taking of Life |
Burtchaell, James T. |
| ignorance |
Sullivan’s Sting |
Sanders, Lawrence |
| creed |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| dullness |
A Circle of Quiet |
L'Engle, Madeleine |
| character type |
American Pastoral |
Roth, Philip |
| character type |
In the Beauty of the Lilies |
Updike, John |
| character type |
Lincoln |
Donald, David Herbert |
| character type |
Truman |
McCullough, David |
| sociopathy |
The Billionaire Boys’ Club |
Horton, Sue |
| Richard M. Nixon |
The Good Times |
Baker, Russell |
| character type |
The Good Times |
Baker, Russell |
| biography |
The Good Times |
Baker, Russell |
| character |
Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry |
Anson, Robert Sam |
| oddities |
Darker Than Amber |
MacDonald, John D. |
| oddities |
Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice |
Silberman, Charles E. |
| blessing |
“Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales” |
Collins, Billy |
| death |
East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
| authority |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| awe |
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
Lamott, Anne |
| Catholic Christianity |
The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World |
Neuhaus, Richard John |
| Christian Science |
“Birth of a Troubled Conscience” |
Tinder, Glenn |
| Jews and Christians |
The Search for God at Harvard |
Goldman, Ari L. |
| arrogance |
“Small Gestures” in Harvard Diary: Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular |
Coles, Robert |
| belief |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| union with Christ |
Religious Affections |
Edwards, Jonathan |
| character formation |
A Circle of Quiet |
L'Engle, Madeleine |
| brain formation |
“So Much Day Care, Not Enough Brain Care” |
Stanford, Gregory |
| condescension |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
Frank, Anne |
| character type |
William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives |
Judis, John B. |
| curiosities |
The Sacred Journey |
Buechner, Frederick |
| curiosities |
The Making of the President 1960 |
White, Theodore H. |
| curiosities |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States, 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| curiosities |
“Cool Tat, Too Bad It’s Gibberish” |
Chang, Cindy |
| 9th commandment |
Solzhenitsyn at Harvard |
Berman, Ronald, ed. |
| 4th commandment |
“Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: 1. The Play of Creation” |
Peterson, Eugene |
| creation |
Distorted Truth: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Battle for the Mind |
Mouw, Richard |
| creation |
“Complexity in God’s Creation” |
Marty, Martin E. |
| 9th commandment |
its not u … :( |
Zaslow, Jeffrey |
| courage |
The Things They Carried |
O'Brien, Tim |
| counsel |
“Self-care and Care for Others” |
Beecher, Henry Ward |
| terror |
Into That Darkness: From Mercy killing to Mass Murder |
Sereny, Gitta |
| bribery |
Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| conversion |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| competitiveness |
Seabiscuit, An American Legend |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
| preachers |
William Sloan Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience |
Goldstein, Warren |
| compassion |
“Affirming Ourselves to Death” |
Meilander, Gilbert |
| ostentation |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| clothing |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| class |
Stranger in Two Worlds |
Harris, Jean |
| injustice |
“Being Mugged” |
Stimpson, Catherine |
| civility |
“Facing the Muzak—A Punishing Ordeal” |
Colson, Charles W. |
| math |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| great speeches |
The Last Lion. Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 |
Manchester, William |
| church membership |
“Men Need Church Too” |
Mathewes-Green, Frederica |
| gospel |
Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale |
Buechner, Frederick |
| Christianity |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| consolation |
Blessings: An Autobiographical Fragment |
Craig, Mary |
| Victorian England |
The Last Lion. Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 |
Manchester, William |
| character type |
Wonder Boy: Barry Minkow, the Kid Who Swindled Wall Street |
Akst, Daniel |
| character type |
A Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Sheehan, Neil |
| superficiality |
The Last Lion. Volume 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 |
Manchester, William |
| arrogance |
Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry |
Anson, Robert Sam |
| character type |
Horowitz: A Biography of Vladimir Horowitz |
Plaskin, Glenn |
| preaching |
“The Pulpit King: The Passion and Eloquence of Gardner Taylor, a Legend among Preachers” |
Gilbreath, Edward |
| power |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate |
Caro, Robert |
| character type |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent |
Caro, Robert |
| character type |
Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York |
Kessner, Thomas |
| skill |
“Sport: Pool Sharks” |
Griffin, Peter |
| Stalin |
Truman |
McCullough, David |
| character type |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Hentrick Hertzberg “Jimmy Carter” |
| peacemaking character type |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Hentrick Hertzberg “Jimmy Carter” |
| outsiders |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Tom Wicker, “Richard M. Nixon" |
| character type |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Hentrick Hertzberg “Jimmy Carter” |
| character type |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Doris Kearns Goodwin, “FDR” |
| strength character type |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Doris Kearns Goodwin, “FDR” |
| grandiosity |
Character Above All: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Robert Dallek, “LBJ” |
| character type |
Character above all: Ten presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Robert Dallek, “LBJ” |
| self-absorption |
Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder |
Rule, Ann |
| pride |
Horowitz: A Biography of Vladimir Horowitz |
Plaskin, Glenn |
| embarrassment |
Acceptable Losses |
Shaw, Irwin |
| humiliation |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| 9th commandment |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power |
Caro, Robert A. |
| cruelty |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent |
Caro, Robert A. |
| deception |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent |
Caro, Robert A. |
| pride |
Of Human Bondage |
Maugham, W. Somerset |
| arrogance |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| listening |
Darker Than Amber |
MacDonald, John D. |
| hypocrisy |
Bright Orange for the Shroud |
MacDonald, John D. |
| seediness |
Bright Orange for the Shroud |
MacDonald, John D. |
| ambition |
The Making of the President 1960 |
White, Theodore H. |
| pomposity |
Bleak House |
Dickens, Charles |
| Reformation (Catholic Reading) |
The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World |
Neuhaus, Richard John |
| dependency |
Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home |
Wills, Garry |
| American optimism |
The American Mind |
Commager, Henry Steele |
| Sloth |
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book |
Percy, Walker |
| grief |
The Sweet Hereafter |
Banks, Russell |
| cost/benefit |
The Sweet Hereafter |
Banks, Russell |
| books |
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
Lamott, Anne |
| blunders |
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 |
Hastings, Max |
| determination |
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad |
Bain, David Howard |
| animal intelligence |
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad |
Bain, David Howard |
| dream |
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad |
Bain, David Howard |
| aging |
War and Remembrance |
Wouk, Herman |
| aging |
Dad |
Wharton, William |
| aging |
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet |
Miller, Robert Moats |
| aging |
Sighing for Eden: Sin, Evil, and the Christian Faith |
Willimon, William H. |
| aging |
The Undertaking: Live Studies from the Dismal Trade |
Lynch, Thomas |
| aging |
What’s So Good About Getting Old |
Carl, Jr., William J., ed. |
| aging |
“What He Was Like” in All the Days and Night |
Maxwell, William |
| aging |
The Liberty Campaign |
Dee, Jonathan |
| anger |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| anger |
The Chosen |
Potok, Chaim |
| anger |
“You are Nasty and I am Nice: Angles on Anger” |
Roberts, Robert C. |
| anxiety |
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Norris, Kathleen |
| 1st commandment |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
Frank, Anne |
| 1st commandment |
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of the United States, 1932-1972 |
Manchester, William |
| 5th commandment |
The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Wolfe, Tom |
| 6th commandment |
Philemon’s Problem: The Daily Dilemma of the Christian |
Burtchaell, James T. |
| 6th commandment |
The Lonely Silver Rain |
MacDonald, John D. |
| 6th commandment |
Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush |
Wilson, Robert A., ed., Hentrick Hertzberg “Jimmy Carter” |
| 6th commandment |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
Steinbeck, John |
| 6th commandment |
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder |
Sereny, Gitta |
| 7th commandment |
The Giving and Taking of Life |
Burtchaell, James T. |
| 8th commandment |
An Innocent Millionaire |
Vizinczey, Stephen |
| 9th commandment |
The Death at Yew Corner |
Forrest, Richard |
| 9th commandment |
The Complete Essays of Montaigne, trans. Donald Frame |
Montaigne, Michel |
| 6th commandment |
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War |
Fussell, Paul |
| love |
“Pure Love,” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays |
Adams, Robert Merrihew |
| fashions |
The Screwtape Letters |
Lewis, C.S. |
| excuses |
Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find? |
Yancey, Philip |
| guilt |
Damage |
Hart, Josephine |
| ambition |
Crossing to Safety |
Stegner, Wallace |
| image |
The mirror makers: A history of American advertising and its Creators |
Fox, Stephen |
| aging |
A Married Man |
Read, Piers Paul |
| flattery |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate |
Caro, Robert A. |
| lying |
Blue Blood |
Conlon, Edward |
| hunger |
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 |
Hastings, Max |
| learning |
The Mill on the Floss |
Eliot, George |
| church |
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor |
O'Connor, Flannery, ed. Sally Fitzgerald |
| blindness |
Blind Man’s Vision Restored After 43 Years: Recovery of sense shows sight is more than visual recognition |
Unnamed |
| love |
“Sermons on the Song of Songs (36:3)” in Lane, Tony, “A 12th Century Man for All Seasons The Life and Thought of Bernard of Clairvaux,” |
Bernard of Clairvaux |
| irony |
Memoirs |
Gromyko, Andrei |
| death |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| life |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
Boswell, James |
| self-exoneration |
“A Favorite Fallback for Foulups: ‘Mistakes Were Made'” |
Broder, John M. |
| status |
Continental Drift |
Banks, Russell |
| work |
The Sweet Hereafter |
Banks, Russell |
| literature |
“Christianity and Literature” in Christian Reflections |
Lewis, C.S. |
| faith |
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration |
Cousins, Norman |
| 2nd commandment |
A Grief Observed |
Lewis, C.S. |
| satiety |
Orthodoxy |
Chesterton, G.K. |
| mockery |
“A Meeting in Middle Age” from The Collected Stories |
Trevor, William |
| courage |
The Quotidian Mysteries |
Norris, Kathleen |
