I have been waiting for an opportune time (most likely summer…) to sit down and start chipping away at four books I've recently purchased. They have been, sadly, buried in my trunk under heaps of dirty clothes for weeks now. I bought them with an Amazon gift card I got for Christmas. Mothers sure know best, don't they? Thank you Sweet Lord (for mothers… and Amazon gift cards)! In no special order, they are:
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction by Rowan Williams
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins by Peter Enns
And…
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Soon, very soon, I will properly devour each one; probably something like this: