Bob on Books
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Posting about the good, the true, and the beautiful in books and life! A retired collegiate minister enjoying life on a blue island in Ohio. Book influencer and reviewer at bobonbooks.com
Featured Book. Climate refugees are already a reality as people flee coastal inundation, heat, and drought. It will only get worse. How will those whose Savior was a refugee respond? @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. A history of anti-semitism in the U.S. and how we negotiate the tension between hate speech and free speech. Metropolitan Books
Featured Book. "Loving God's world" and "love for country" are just abstractions without knowing, loving and caring for our place. Explores how we might think Christianly about place. @ivpacademic.bsky.social
Featured Book. There's something we lose in "virtual" community. And digital has often usurped even in-person worship. What could be gained by going analog? @tyndalehouse.bsky.social
Featured Book. Love the idea of this book, in which believers and skeptics are in actual, friendly conversation about God's existence. @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. Little would one think an 86 year old woman would survive the severe injuries of a fall down 13 steps, let alone flourish in a new situation. Laurel Richardson's memoir recounts an amazing story: www.amazon.com/dp/173786245...
Featured Book: We all recognize beauty when we experience it. But how would we define "beauty"? @ivpacademic.bsky.social
Featured Book. I was acquainted with Phil Keaggy, who was from my home town, when he was recording "What a Day." So I was delighted to receive this new book by John B. Hatch which studies the musical composition of each track as well as the album's background. bookshop.org/p/books/oh-w...
Featured Book: A resource for early career faculty who are Christians on cultivating faithfulness in their calling. B & H Academic
Featured Book. Love an Patchett's writing so looking forward to this. Have you read it and what did you think?
Featured Book. An exploration of the rich history of Christian spirituality. @ivpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. Explores the connections between Paul's thought and John's, including the possibility that Paul knew John's writing, implying a radical re-evaluation of the dating of John's Gospel. Baker Academic
Featured Book. What may we learn from Luther and his colleagues at Wittenberg about renewing the church? @fortresspress.bsky.social
Featured Book. A friend from the Madison, WI area sent me this memoir of the Madison Symphony director. Why should I be interested? He grew up in my hometown of Youngstown and I had a wonderful interview with him a few years ago! University of Wisconsin Press
Featured Book. Many do not believe we can love our LGBTQ+ neighbors without revising our understanding of the Bible. This book argues otherwise. Curious to see how it makes its case. @ivpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. Explores how influential was an apocalyptic worldview in everyday life in Second Temple Judaism. @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. "Evangelism" often gets a bad rap. And, with changes in the culture, the effort to deconstruct and reconstruct evangelism is welcome. Wipf & Stock
Featured Book. Got this one to see what everyone is raving about! @atriabooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. A sequel to "Moms at the Well" by Kathy Tuan-Maclean and @taraedelschick.bsky.social Helps bring moms together to encourage each other in the challenges of motherhood. @ivpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. A Peruvian friend offers a portrait of Pope Leo XIV. @litpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. It may be the most important way to not conform to our restless, frenetic culture is to embrace rest, quiet, and a different life. @readbakerbooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. We often think of 1941 and 1944 as key years of WW2. But in 1942, Hitler decided to invade Russia and North Africa, which would prove to be a fatal move. Osprey Publishing
Featured Book. Years ago, there was a book titled "Lying with Statistics." Finally, there is a book on telling the truth with statistics, written from a faith perpective. @ivpacademic.bsky.social
Featured Book: In a world where 1 in 4 lack clean drinking water, I look forward to reading about this effort to provide this basic necessity. @tyndalehouse.bsky.social
Featured Book. Where is God in the depths of depression? This book is written by someone who has been there. @navpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. Picked this up at a nice discount. Now I can say I have a William Kent Krueger signature. Still have a few ahead of this to read. @atriabooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. Some think too much of the unseen. Others not at all. How do we live life on earth while remaining aware of the unseen? @ivpress.bsky.social
Featured Book. What can we learn about Paul's relationship with the Corinthians from what we have of his correspondence with them? @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
Featured Book. Enjoying reading an early copy of this forthcoming book. Thurman writes of the inward transformation that must precede our efforts to transform the world. @plough.bsky.social
Featured Book. See this book referred to often in the study of literature so I decided to pick up a copy @princetonupress.bsky.social recent sale!