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I’m a book collector. But I like reading my books too, albeit slowly and steadily. I finished three great non-fiction books this fall and if I did New Years Resolutions, I would determine to spend more time reading.<\/p>\n
These are the books I plan to read in the coming months.<\/p>\n
VIOLENCE by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/b>
\nPopular philosopher \u017di\u017eek engagingly discusses the roots of violence rather than surface issues. And by violence, he means even the passive violence and class struggles against sexism, poverty, and ideology.<\/p>\n
MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS by Carol S. Dweck<\/b>
\nThis is required reading at work so we can coach our students to approach challenges with a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. Recommended by a psychologist who both attends my church and is working with our school.<\/p>\n
THE NAKED ANABAPTIST: THE BARE ESSENTIALS OF A RADICAL FAITH by Stuart Murray<\/b> THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE by Malcolm Gladwell<\/b> YOU’RE NOT AS CRAZY AS I THINK: DIALOGUE IN A WORLD OF LOUD VOICES AND HARDENED OPINIONS by Randal Rauser<\/b> THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN: ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN PHYSICS by Lazar Puhalo<\/b> WHAT IS YOUR BELIEF QUOTIENT? by Tennyson Samraj<\/b> SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE: FAITH, FAITHLESSNESS, AND THE COUNTRY IN BETWEEN by Jeff Sharlet<\/b> SCRIPTURE AND THE AUTHORITY OF GOD: HOW TO READ THE BIBLE TODAY by N. T. Wright<\/b> THE SECRETS OF FACILITATION: THE S.M.A.R.T. GUIDE TO GETTING RESULTS WITH GROUPS by Michael Wilkinson<\/b> I’m a book collector. But I like reading my books too, albeit slowly and steadily. I finished three great non-fiction books this fall and if I did New Years Resolutions, I would determine to spend more time reading. These are the books I plan to read in the coming months. VIOLENCE by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek Popular … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,8,9,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-149","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-books","9":"category-canadiana","10":"category-christianity","11":"category-cohousing","12":"category-education","13":"category-politics","14":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSince receiving daily emails from the Bruderhof communities (Mennonite Communes) in 2005 and watching the Amish response<\/a> to a slaughter of 5 school girls in 2007, I have been fascinated by the Anabaptist expression of Christianity. This should flesh it out for me. It carries endorsements from Brian McLaren and Shane Claiborne.<\/p>\n
\nI enjoyed Blink<\/i> by Gladwell a couple years ago, so I plan on continuing to read his popular books. This one focuses on how certain people, usually ordinary, have greater influence on people than others do.<\/p>\n
\nI first heard Dr. Rauser (philosophy prof) speak at our ACSI Teachers Conference when I started working in Calgary. I only ever attend his seminars now. Lately I have followed his blog<\/a> with great interest as he duels with Atheists, Calvinists, and Fundamentalists.<\/p>\n
\nI recently completed Archbishop Puhalo’s The Soul, The Body, and Death<\/i> and was impressed at his scholarship and how this ancient theology is so engaging and still so relevant. My friend Chris lent me these two books, so I had better read this one too. I’ve been watching Archbishop’s regular YouTube<\/a> videos too.<\/p>\n
\nI found this on my father’s bookshelf. The author was my philosophy professor in university and I quite liked him. His book questions why Christians believe the way they do.<\/p>\n
\nI found this book on Tony Jones’ blog<\/a> and read the the first chapter online<\/a> and was hooked. Got it for Christmas from my sis. It is a collection of essays on what he has found on the faith frontier in the USA. I think the title of the first chapter is pretty rockin’ too.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve mentioned how Anglican Bishop Wright has quite turned my head around after reading his Surprised by Hope<\/i> a couple summers ago. I plan on reading more of his books (and collecting them) as time passes. Great faith grounding material.<\/p>\n
\nThis is assigned reading from the Process Team in our Cohousing Project<\/a>. I have been recruited to be one of the groups six facilitators and now I must read this book. So far, I haven’t had anything to complain about (ask me if I’ve started it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"