Book Review – The Spiral Staircase

This book by Karen Armstrong is a bit different from the general vein of books that I review. While her most popular work is definitely A History of God. this book explores her personal journey. It is a first-person narrative biography, and it is an example of a growing genre: deconversion. Armstrong spent seven years as Read More …

Luke 4:1-13. The devil you know…

Now that we are in Lent, the Lectionary turns to the temptation of Jesus (Luke 4:1-13). This can be a hard story to relate to — after all few of us have probably had an audibly verbal conversation with Satan — and even fewer of us have to defend to him that we are the Read More …