A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension Between Belief and Experience by A. J. Swoboda. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Press, 2015. Summary: An exploration of living in the tension of the glorious hope of Christian faith and the dark, unsettling realities of our lives through reflections grouped around the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the Triduum of Holy Week. A great book to read reflectively during Holy Week [April 9 - 16, 2017]. … [Read more...] about Book Review: A Glorious Dark, by A. J. Swoboda
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Book Review: Called to Be Saints
Called to Be Saints: An Invitation to Christian Maturity By Gordon T. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book might change your thinking about “sainthood”. Sometimes, we conceive saints as these unworldly, serious, ascetic, and somewhat odd creatures. Gordon Smith would propose instead that being a saint is something to which all of us are called and what this means is growth into Christian maturity–a kind of perfection of holiness that isn't perfectionism but rather a kind of completeness or wholeness of … [Read more...] about Book Review: Called to Be Saints