Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II(Viking, 2019). Conversations about the value of life-supporting measures don’t seem obviously well-suited to picnics in the park or days at the beach, but the lazy days of summer may be our best opportunity to prepare for life’s approaching winter. I‘ve already read this helpful and sobering book about end-of-life care, but I recently asked my husband to read it so we can establish priorities for our own end of life-whenever Christ would call us home. Katie Butler, Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care (Crossway, 2019). I haven’t read it myself-nor seen the 2017 movie-but I told them we would read it aloud this summer and discuss its themes of human nature, disability, and social interaction together. My boys (age 10, 11, 12) have wanted to read this book for some time now. I read Lamentation(the sixth book in the series) a few months ago, and I’m debating between going on to book eight ( Tombland, published last year) or going back to start the series at the beginning. In addition to the usual palace intrigue and captivating detection (and, fair warning, some strong language), the books also sympathetically explore the spiritual lives of Protestants and the convictions that brought them into constant danger during the reign of Henry VIII. My dad recently introduced me to this series of historical mystery novels. Sansom, The Shardlake Series (Macmillan/Mantle). Winship, Hot Protestants: A History of Protestantism in England and America (Yale University Press, 2019). Who can resist that title? I’ve read a lot more from the Puritans than about the Puritans, so I’m looking forward to gaining context from this new history.Ĭ. I’m already realizing how much Wilder shaped my moral and literary imagination as a child of the Great Plains. I’m reading the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder to my son, and I grew up near the Ingalls home in South Dakota. Orthodox theology requires that we live with paradox.Ĭaroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Metropolitan Books, 2017). Jen Pollock Michel, Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of “And” in an Either-Or World (IVP Books, 2019). I always learn when reading Jen, and this topic fascinates me.
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