I strongly urge one & all to read Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. Anyone who has enjoyed "The Explorers' Club's" rolling retrospective on the Weltkrieg would profit by reading this engrossing & enlightening survey of the fiasco that followed the tragedy.
I've hardly begin Mere Christianity & I already hate it. I am instinctively repulsed by the disingenuous notion of a "mere" Christianity & Lewis's preface (the forward is written by an otherwise unknown person named Kathleen Norris) has done nothing to allay my repulsion. He puts forward a very "weak sauce" argument for not tackling certain sins. I enjoyed the recent re-reading of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe & remember fondly The Screwtape Letters; so, I yet hold out hope that Mere Christianity will prove worthwhile.
Recently
Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Currently
G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Devotionally
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Perpetually
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations ***suspended***
Presently
Steve Weidenkopf, Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
Tim Gray & Jeff Cavins, Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible
Diane Moczar, Converts and Kingdoms: How the Church Converted the Pagan West—and How We Can Do It Again
Sherry A. Weddell, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
Curtis Martin, Making Missionary Disciples
Dynamic Catholic Ambassadors, Why I Love Being Catholic
Bishop Robert Barron, Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture
Mike Aquilina, Understanding the Mass: 100 Questions, 100 Answers
Xavier Rynne, Vatican Council II
John W. O'Malley, What Happened at Vatican II
Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love)
Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Charity)
Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture
Rosario Carello, Pope Francis Takes the Bus and Other Unexpected Stories
Father Mathias D. Thelen, Biblical Foundations for the Role of Healing in Evangelization
Jennifer Fulwiler, Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
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