In the past eighteen to twenty-four months, my church-going habits have deteriorated badly.
While they may now be described as sporadic, for a long period I didn’t go anywhere at all, and took recourse in my home on Sunday mornings.
I can’t put a finger on the specific date that my love for what I’d known to be church started to wane. I just started to tire of the constant ‘busyness’. The seminars and conferences. The meetings and formulaic prayers. The non-stop activities.
And then the questions began. Niggling questions that I couldn’t shake off, no matter how hard I tried.
Do activities really change people’s lives? Do they bring people closer to God? Could it be that as a Christian, I had come to mistake routine and activity for relationship?
I’m currently reading…Half of a Yellow Sun
October 23, 2008
I’m currently reading Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
To be continued.
I’m currently reading…The Shack
October 23, 2008
I haven’t had any books personally recommended to me for quite a while. I tend to hear about, or get wind of, authors, and then I’ll read one, two, or even three of their books in quick succession.
Or, I get interested in a particular concept or topic – it could be apologetics, legal dramas, the Nigerian Civil War, or a fictional female detective in Botswana – and I sink my teeth into that for a while, until I get bored and move onto the next thing that catches my fancy.
However, this book was recommended in my church a couple of months ago.
Now, I’m very wary of recommendations made from the pulpit as a whole, as after a while one may unwittingly find oneself more engaged in activities of the buying and selling variety, instead of focusing on listening to and imbibing the tenets of godly living. But I felt this book had a fascinating premise…
…and that’s why I’m currently reading The Shack by William Paul Young.
I’m currently reading…How to Win Friends and Influence People
August 27, 2008
You know how there are just some books that you’ve just always known about?
Well for me, this is one of them. To describe them as popular is an understatement, it’s probably more accurate to say that they are a part of international consciousness!
The title is a catchphrase that has been repeated, parodied and paraphrased countless times, so much that one British writer who put a spin on it to form the title of his own book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, recently had it made into a Hollywood feature film.
I have always known about this book, but have never really got round to reading it, up until now.
So I’m currently reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
I’m currently reading…Letters From a Skeptic
August 10, 2008
I’m currently reading Letters From a Skeptic by Dr. Gregory A. Boyd and Edward Boyd.
To be continued.
I’m currently reading…Votewise
June 30, 2008
I’m currently reading Votewise by Nick Spencer.
To be continued.
I’m currently reading…Northern Lights
May 8, 2008
I’m currently reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
To be continued.
I’m currently reading…Blue Shoes and Happiness
April 6, 2008
I’m currently reading Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith, the seventh book in his No. 1 Ladies’ Detective series.
As regular visitors to my blog know I’ve read a few of the books in the series, and was looking forward to returning to his rose-tinted world of adventure in the lovely southern African country of Botswana.
I was particularly spurred on by BBC One’s Easter Sunday TV adaptation of the first book starring American Grammy Award-winning soul singer Jill Scott (whose music I absolutely love), directed by the now late Anthony Minghella.
Since I was ‘in the zone’, I thought I may as well get down with another of Smith’s books!
So, what cases are Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi investigating this time around?
