My recent reading and research has produced quite a list of additional books I'd like to read. The list keeps growing and I can't seem to make enough time to read the books I already have. I thought I'd blog about them for interest's sake. Plus, maybe it can be the start of my Christmas list! [Attention: MOM]
From my research into human trafficking:
"Just Courage" - Gary Haugen. IJM President Gary Haugen describes a journey to freedom from the triviality and fear that can stifle our lives.
"Good News about Injustice" - Gary Haugen. Interspersed with individual stories of specific abuse, this book chronicles the vision behind IJM's work and seeks to tackle tragic injustices with practical insight, answering tough questions regarding the nature of injustice and the Biblical mandate for Christians to confront it.
From my reading of "The Reason for God" by Timothy Keller (but also tied to interest in human trafficking):
"The Nature of True Virtue" - Jonathan Edwards. [Printed in Paul Ramsay, "The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Ethical Writings."] Edwards concludes that only if God is our ultimate good and life center, will we find our heart drawn out not only to people of all families, races, and classes, but to the whole world in general. (From "The Reason for God.")
"For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the end of Slavery." - Rodney Stark.
"A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow" - David L. Chappell
From reading, "The Roots of Endurance" by John Piper:
"A Practical View of Christianity" - William Wilberforce. The fatal habit of considering Christian morals as distinct from Christian doctrines insensibly gained strength. Thus the peculiar doctrines of Christianity went more and more out of sight, and as might naturally have been expected, the moral system itself also began to whither and decay, being robbed of that which should have supplied it with life and nutriment.
*Forgive me if I don't get all the quotes, italics and underlining correct. I can't figure out how to underline on the blogger formatting...I'm sure you get the idea.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
My book wish list
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That footnote is for me, right? Because the first thing I thought when I started reading the post was that you didn't denote the book titles properly. Actually it's proper to put book titles in italics when typing; underlining tends to be more for handwritten titles. I think either is still technically correct (the quotes are definitely wrong though, they're just for shorter stuff) :)
I do appreciate that you realize that there are rules: Some people don't. I recently had to tell a certain young author of mine that "There are rules for these sorts of things! You can't just go italicizing willy-nilly!" Well, that's what I said to my coworkers. I said it to him nicely.
Yes, I do forgive you.
Oh well, at least I knew it was wrong. I try so hard but can't keep up!
Gee...no "chick lit"...sorry if those quotation marks are unnecessary...also if the ... bothers you (or Melissa) :-)
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