Author/Translator: Sophus Helle Rating: 5/7 (Good, don’t go out of your way, but enjoyable Date Finished: 2026-01-26 Part of my ongoing project has been reading the world's oldest literature. It helps me understand the world of the Bible, and ultimately, the world in general. Enheduana
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Author: Cal Newport Rating: 6/7 (Good Plus, Worth Repeating) Date Finished: 2026-01-24 Newport argues that knowledge workers have trapped themselves in "pseudoproductivity"—using visible busyness as a proxy for actual accomplishment. His alternative philosophy rests on three principles: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and
Wright's biography rescues Paul from caricature and presents him as a relentless, brash church-planter who created radically egalitarian communities—and reading it made me feel less alone in wondering whether all my work is worth it.
Author: Dallas Willard Rating: 6/7 Date Finished: 2026-01-09 I hadn't read a substantial Dallas Willard book in about six years. That's a long time to leave an author who fundamentally changed your life on the shelf. When I was in undergrad, Willard's The
Author: Jo Walton Finished Date: December 28, 2025 Rating: 5/7 One Sentence Summary: Follows Mor a disabled Welsh teenager who, after losing her twin sister in a magical confrontation with their abusive mother, finds solace in science fiction novels while navigating grief, isolation, and the complexities of magic at
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell This is one of those beautifully devastating books that's impossible to describe. Yes, at its bare essentials, it's about Jesuits traveling to space and meeting aliens. But it's also about colonialism and pain and romance and asceticism and so
This was the year I rediscovered fiction. Ever since seminary, I've struggled picking up a fiction book and have it maintain my attention. Even though I believe in the importance of reading fiction, I can still fall prey to the lie that it is somehow a waste of
Book 1 for 2023 ✅ I read A More Christlike God by Bradley Jersak back in 2015 when it came out. Since then, Jersak has become one of the most influential theologians in my life, helping me make sense of the atonement, understand Scripture, as well pushing me over to edge