De Spiritu Sancto by St. Basil
Today I completed Saint Basil the Great’s On the Holy Spirit, translated by Stephen M. Hildebrand in the Popular Patristics Series from St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (ISBN 978-0-88141-876-7). This reading was recommended to me while …
The King in His Beauty
Today I finished cover to cover The King in His Beauty by Thomas Schreiner (714 pages, ISBN: 978-0801039393). The King in His Beauty, published by Baker Academic, is one of the best biblical theologies I …
Beowulf
Today I finished Beowulf (202 pages, ISBN: 978-0140449310), translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Alexander. It is an anonymous Old English poem preserved in the Nowell Codex, with the surviving manuscript usually dated …
The Life of Antony
Today I completed The Life of Antony by St. Athanasius. I read it in the nineteenth-century English edition contained in St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters, Volume IV of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of …
The Aeneid by Virgil
Today I finished the book The Aeneid (484 pages, ISBN: 978-0143105138). The book was written from 29 to 19 BC. Having completed The Iliad and The Odyssey, I come to Virgil’s The Aeneid as the …
The Odyssey by Homer
Today I finished the book The Odyssey (504 pages, ISBN: 978-0679410478). It is the second of two books, following The Iliad, that recount the events surrounding the Trojan War and the return of the Achaean …
The Iliad by Homer
Today I finished the book The Iliad (595 pages, ISBN: 978-1857150605). It’s the first of two books, including The Odyssey, that tell of the Trojan War and the Achaean return voyage to their homeland. The …
Beloved
Today I finished the book Beloved by Francis Chan and Mercy Gordon, and it reminds me of what really matters. It returns to what is already true, allowing it to settle with time. Reading it …
Union with Christ
Having completed the book Union with Christ: The Blessings of Being in Him by Sinclair B. Ferguson (hardcover ISBN 978-1848717237) cover to cover, what stayed with me wasn’t just how the book explains union with …
The Discipline of Grace
Today I completed the book The Discipline of Grace, and it was a helpful, clear grounding in what it means to live by discipline through grace. Various disciplines were covered, spanning thoughts, words, and actions, …
The Life of Discipleship
Discipleship, as I’ve known it, is not an event or a study. It is not a group you attend or a curriculum you complete. It is a way of life that is intentionally formed in …
The Weight of Holiness
Having today completed The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul (ISBN: 978-0842314985), it becomes clear that the book unfolds according to Sproul’s Reformational approach to Scripture. Rather than presenting holiness through abstract definition, he …
