Let me encourage ministers everywhere to read. Expand your mind and your heart. You will be a better minister and person for it. And it is fun.
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Let me encourage ministers everywhere to read. Expand your mind and your heart. You will be a better minister and person for it. And it is fun.
This book is about religion, to be sure, but it is more an act of history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural criticism. (Nonfiction)
Seeing is believing, right? If you can’t trust a photograph, what can you trust? By the end of this book you’ll be rethinking that. (Nonfiction)
In the media age where politics tend to be formed in the last 15 minutes, this book goes a long way toward giving us the context we need. (Nonfiction)
Why is it that I find freshly baked chocolate chip cookies almost irresistible and the much better for me Brussels sprouts almost intolerable? (Nonfiction)
I have often recommended this book to those who are grieving, and all of them have affirmed how true it is. When it comes to honestly dealing with grief, Didion’s book goes to the top of the stack.
Imagine. A threat to the moral, psychological, emotional, and spiritual well-being of young people all over America. (Nonfiction)
Lipstadt argues that Eichmann was not just a little man following orders but a convinced Nazi and anti-Semite committed to the program of genocide. (Nonfiction)
This is one of those must-read books for preachers. One of the primary tasks we face is to give our congregants a story to live by. (Nonfiction)
Let me raise a question: is it possible that expertise simply does not exist in some areas? Are there fields in which even 10,000 hours would not constitute any real expertise? (Nonfiction)
I highly recommend this book as an education on the part of the civil rights movement that many of us know little about. (Nonfiction)
I'm no great fan of memoirs. They generally strike me as self-absorbed. If you are like me in that way, I would encourage you to make an exception with this one. It is a moving and transforming experience. (Nonfiction)
The book is not particularly about whether psychic abilities may actually exist. Rather, it offers a description of the methods that psychics use to manipulate their customers. (Nonfiction)
I’ll bet you were told there would be no math here. Surprise! There is nothing but math here. (Nonfiction)
Teenage boys can be both intimidating and exasperating, often at the same time. It is a tribute to Saval’s skill that I came away from the book caring about the boy in every chapter. (Nonfiction)
Okay. I get it. We are all ready for something on the lighter side. How about a book that is constantly amusing, engaging, and at the same time will actually teach you something? (Nonfiction)
We may think we hold our moral decisions based on reasons, but more than likely the position came first and the reasons later. (Nonfiction)
I don’t know what your history classes were like in high school or college, but I assure you that this is a fascinating tale, which is all the more remarkable since you already know how it comes out. (Nonfiction)
It is a brilliant piece of detailed investigative reporting and the best account of the Chernobyl disaster that we have. (Nonfiction)
At the very least, we should educate ourselves on the history so we can understand where Mormonism came from. (Nonfiction)