Current State of the Readingz...
So, I thought I'd throw out to my peeps what I'm currently into from a publishing standpoint. Don't ask me how I've been reading books AND pursuing my masters degree at the same time. Hmmm, maybe that's why I was close to a stress break down this week and out of work for 3 days with the strep throat. I digress...Just finished:
Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story by Brian "Head" Welch
Excellent autobiography about this guy from the band Korn who became a Christian. Incredible story due to the depths of darkness he gets to before he chooses Christ and his life transformation while walking with Christ. Awesome story. No holds barred either. Exposes the lie and emptiness the whole rockstar lifestyle is.
Currently digging:
Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions by Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears
Co-written by my secondary pastor, Mark Driscoll. Gives some rock solid framework and yet intricate details to the foundations of Christianity and answers a lot of tricky questions people have brought up along the way. So far so great!
In the queue:
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (Morality and Society Series) by W. Bradford Wilcox and Brad Wilcox
Can't wait to read this one. The author is a PhD in Sociology from The University of Virginia. Christian. And has a lot of things to say, clinically and otherwise, about the roles of fathers and husbands in different types of churches. The author explains why different church traditions respond so differently to family change and explores how the stances of evangelical and mainline Protestant churches toward marriage and parenting influenced the husbands and fathers that attend these churches. Stoked.
That's all I got until I get a new three to read!
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