Adam’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2016)

Adam’s comments from the CAPC Members group.

Assumed it would have been a longer collection like her advent book. But it is less than 100 pages.

Saw on Twitter that Rutledge has a lent book coming out this year.

I am limiting my reading of white authors to no more than 1/3. Shooting for 1/4, but giving some wiggle room.

Want to increase my fiction percent from current 35-40% to closer to 50%

But not much more than that.

Not a one of them :)

I have been trying to think of an equivalent. Mark Noll's the civil war as theological crisis is the best equivalent I can think of. It really made me reconsider my evangelical history around the civil war and remember that not every own is on the side of the Angels.

Another very important book is steve Jobs bio. Other have done a similar thing. But the Jobs bio was the best at illustrating that people that have great impacts on history are not necessarily great people.

I wasn't a huge fan of it the first reading. But liked it more the second.

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life from 1492 to 1783 by Mark Noll - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

and

Eifelheim by Michael Flynn (on Seth's recommendation) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

For me that is hard. I tend to stop reading books I don't like. I just sorted by reviewed book on Bookwi.se to see what I rated lowest (and actually finished).

The lowest rated are Ethan Frome, The Noticer by Andy Andrews, The Erosion of Inerrency by Beale and Lilith by George McDonald. The rest of my 1 star reviews I don't think I actually read.

As to why, I really forced myself to finish Ethan From. I just didn't like the characters and didn't but into the reasoning. The the Noticer felt like one big cliche after another. The Erosion of Inerrancy was trying to deal with ends Enns' book Inspiration and Incarnation but seemed to miss the whole point, didn't include the essays he was responding to (so was disjointed) and then threw in some extra stuff that had nothing to do with Enns (essay on why there was only one author of Isaiah. And Lilith I think I just didn't understand, it was way too trippy for me (and I am sure there were allusions that I was supposed to get that I didn't.)

I tried once and didn't get that far.