Rich Mullins
From the publisher: “Rich Mullins was a poet and thinker who left behind a timeless legacy. As a columnist for Release magazine for nearly six years, Rich shared his musings on faith and life. With the same depth and simplicity that characterized his music, Rich transformed paper to canvas, painting the wonder and awesomeness of our God. [This book] collects these personal writings, along with some of his most memorable quotations.”
From me: I re-read this as part of noting the 20th anniversary of Rich’s death. The articles reproduced in this book are like Rich: deeply God-focused, laced with humor, visually evocative, and poetic enough to be sometimes hard to understand.
Page 56/Sentence 5: I hate restaurants where waiters have too much style and your plates have more finesse than food.
Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr
“In his own words, Cash sets the record straight as he looks unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, the road of Cash’s life has been anything but smooth.”
Had I known there was ANOTHER autobiography, titled Man in Black, that Cash wrote first, I would have read it first, but still, this book held no disappointments for me at all. There are plenty of behind the scene stories and hard-won bits of wisdom.
56/5: It was the most valuable advice I’d had in years, maybe ever.
Sean McDowell, General Editor
“This generation’s faith is constantly under attack from the secular media, skeptical teachers, and unbelieving peers. You may wonder, How can I help? .... The truth never gets old, but people need to hear it in fresh, new ways. Find out how you can effectively share the answers to life’s big questions with a new generation.”
I bought this book because Sean McDowell’s father, Josh, wrote the definitive book on apologetics, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, back in the 70’s, and it changed my life. (Apologetics: the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information. Early Christian writers [c. 120–220] who defended their faith against critics and recommended their faith to outsiders were called apologists.) Now, THIS book doesn’t contain a systematic outline of facts and valid arguments that help support faith. Rather, it spells out why apologetics is still important and pertinent, even in a pluralistic culture that states that “what’s true for you may not be true for me.” The fact is, facts still matter, but HOW those facts are shared, in the context of a relationship, matters more.
56/5: More churches are training and equipping people to defend their beliefs.
Jim Gaffigan
“I know what you’re thinking: Finally, another book from a comedian! Finally, a book about parenting from a comedian. Finally, another self-congratulatory book flap obviously written by the author.”
I really like Jim Gaffigan as a stand-up comic, but this is an enjoyable book the way Doctor Strange was an enjoyable movie...the way cotton candy is an enjoyable “food.” I liked it, I laughed, and as soon as it went back to the library, it left my consciousness. Quotable quote: “For me it’s always a little sad getting out of bed. Every morning after I get up, I always gaze longingly at my bed and lament, ‘You were wonderful last night. I didn’t want it to end. I can’t wait to see you again...’.”
56/5: Hospitals should just be renamed “houses of worry.”
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