Solomon Among the Postmoderns

I was just over at WTS bookstore and I noticed this book:


It looks pretty interesting. I wish I had time to read it, but maybe you do? If you decide to read it, please use my link so I can get my kickback :-)

JK Rowling hints at another Harry Potter book

I bet it would be about Harry Potter's kids:

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has strongly hinted for the first time that she could write an eighth book in the series.

Rowling, 42, admits she has 'weak moments' when she feels she will pen another novel about the boy wizard.

One of her biggest fans – her 14-year-old daughter Jessica – has already put pressure on her to revisit the character.

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"If - and it's a big if - I ever write an eighth book, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. I feel I've already told his story.

"But these are big ifs. Let's give it ten years."

In the meantime, Rowling is working on two writing projects – an adult novel and a "political fairy tale" – and is involved in charity work.

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Top 5 books on culture

Here's a list of the top 5 books that help explain our culture.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

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Dr. Richard Bauckham Lectures at WSC

"The Four Gospels and the Other Gospels: Is Our Canon Right?" You can listen to it here. Dr. Bauckham is the author of a number of books including Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony and James which is a commentary I'm reading now for my General Epistles and Revelation class.

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There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Justin Taylor has some interesting links related to Antony Flew's new book. Flew went from atheism to deism.

Some great books on sale at Westminster Bookstore

They're having their final big sale so go check out the great titles they have listed (remember you help a struggling seminarian afford her textbooks when you use my link).

Book thefts help gauge interest in books

Gore's book was on the list:

The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual exhibition -- the unofficial "most stolen book" index.

Bild am Sonntag and Germany's ZDF television have come up with lists of titles most stolen from 15 leading German publishers' stands set up in the Frankfurt trade fair grounds.

"The most-stolen books are usually the most-sold later on," Claudia Hanssen of the Goldmann Verlag publishing house told Bild am Sonntag newspaper, which published a list of the 10 most stolen German-language books this year.

Inventory Reduction Sale at Westminster

You can get some really great deals on some really great books including this one by one of my favorite professors at Westminster:


And this one by more of my favorite professors at Westminster:

Sproul has completed his third volume on the Westminster Confession of Faith

You can get it from the WTS Book Store for $13.86! And only $5 shipping.

Westminster Recommended Commentaries Sale

Check out this great sale on some really good commentaries. Up to 55% off on some of the commentaries. I highly recommend the following:





These are commentaries I've used and liked. We used the Genesis commentary in my "History and Theology of Israel" class. I haven't used the Bruce Waltke or Moisés Silva but I've used other commentaries written by them and they were excellent.

We are not a nation of readers

If I didn't read over the summer and during my winter break I might have fallen in the "haven't completed many books this year" category since many of my classes at seminary only require us to read sections of books and not whole books (especially the theology classes). I do love to read, I just don't take the time to do it. I wonder how many people like me are represented in this poll:

One in four U.S. adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and seniors were most avid, and religious works and popular fiction were the top choices.

The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year — half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who had not read any, the usual number read was seven.

With the lure of the Internet and TV, I find it very hard to tear myself away and spend time reading. It really can be a time-consuming activity and the type of books that I like to read (thrillers -- I'm reading The Judas Strain now) are over 300 pages. I usually stay up to all hours of the night reading or take weeks to finish a book.

My daughter, Sarah is an avid reader. She read 153 books last year in a competition with my mom. She won by one book :-) Her sister Samantha is not a reader, she loves to watch movies and Disney shows on the Internet. I let her do it way too much but I do force her to read (I just sent her to her room to read for an hour). I'm hopeful that she will eventually develop a love for books if she's around them enough.

Another interesting aspect of the study is the type of books we are reading:

The Bible and religious works were read by two-thirds in the survey, more than all other categories. Popular fiction, histories, biographies and mysteries were all cited by about half, while one in five read romance novels. Every other genre — including politics, poetry and classical literature — were named by fewer than five percent of readers.

Good to see that the Bible is still being read by the majority. Though I'm sad to see that so few are reading classical literature. And I would be happier about those who were reading "religious works" if I didn't know that probably means Joel Olsteen and Joyce Meyers.

If you're interested in what I've been reading lately....

Go check out my review of the book I just finished today.

Westminster Bookstore Sale

They are having a great sale on some of the Biblical Theology books. Go check it out and buy something so that I can get me kickback :-) I need to buy a book and I'm waiting for one more coupon to do so.

BTW, I really recommend The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. It is very helpful and I use it when I'm studying a particular book of the Bible or doing a word study.

I wonder if our traffic will take a hit as everyone reads Harry Potter

Did you enjoy the book?

Summer Reading List

I blog about mine here.

Thanks to those of you who shopped at Westminster Bookstore using my link

I've been meaning to say thank you for awhile but kept forgetting to do it. I finally qualified for a gift certificate that I'm going to put toward the books I need for seminary in the fall.

I'm taking Ancient Church History and The General Epistles and Revelation. My reading list isn't too bad since the courses are each two credits. I thought I would buy some of the church history books early and read them over the summer and I'm thinking about digesting them (maybe). I'll be buying these:

I also have to read Confessions by Augustine but I have a copy of that already.

Not only did I get a gift certificate from the bookstore but they sent me two free books. Wasn't that nice of them?



Both books have study questions at the end of each chapter that might be useful for a Bible study group. Drew's book looks like a response to a purpose driven life:

“Charles Drew has given us a great book to give away--especially to those who want a purpose-driven life and want to dig more deeply into the mysteries of that purpose. It is at once clear, personal, culturally up-to-date, and theologically rich-- a perfect combination. Drew takes us a step beyond the literature that is presently available on the subject. Highly recommended.” - Dr. Timothy Keller, Senior Minister, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York.