by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2024 | Bauder's Reading, In the Nick of Time
Other people issue lists of the best books they’ve read or of the books that they want to recommend. I compile a list of the books I found most interesting. They are interesting for a variety of reasons, and one of those reasons may be that they are...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 21, 2022 | Bauder's Reading, In the Nick of Time
Last week I provided half the list of the books that I found most interesting throughout my reading during 2021. This week I provide the other half of the list. Perhaps I should mention that these books are listed in alphabetical order by the surname of the author....
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 14, 2022 | Bauder's Reading, In the Nick of Time
Every year at about this time I publish an annotated list of the books that I found most interesting during the preceding twelve months. Whenever I publish this list, I explain that I don’t necessarily agree with these books. I don’t even necessarily...
by Kevin Bauder | Mar 5, 2021 | Bauder's Reading, In the Nick of Time
Last week I began listing the “most interesting books” that I read last year. As you can tell, the list is eclectic. While I read mostly in my discipline, much of the reading that I find interesting is outside it. Here’s the rest of my list. Lansing,...
by Kevin Bauder | Mar 8, 2018 | America, Bauder's Reading, Central Blog, Culture, Faculty Publications, Reviews, What We're Reading
Douglas R. McLachlan. Thirsting for Authenticity: Calling the Church to Robust Christianity. St. Michael, MN: Reference Point Publishers, 2017. 394 pages. Back in the 1990s Douglas McLachlan published a helpful critique of fundamentalism entitled Reclaiming Authentic...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 15, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Technology, What We're Reading, Worship
Christians have always needed an interconnected set of virtues in order to pray well. Virtues refer to character traits, but character traits can be good or bad; we refer to these, respectively, as virtues and vices. . . . [O]ur new technologies tend to promote...
