easily accessible w/ some novel ideas, but ultimately heretical poppycock.

beautiful novel about identity, family, life/death/love. 4/5 stars.

fair. confusing layout. no really new ideas on emerging church, but fair treatment of common ideas/args.

good primer.

nowhere near as good as “prof & madman,” although the middle and end are pretty interesting.

for so many bad things to have happened in 400 pages or so, i sure did love this book.

seth’s rec. good book about contextualizing the gospel. what’s “westernized” and what’s inherent?

written form of lecture @ peterkreeft.com. great throughout, except for the couple of chapters when kreeft just gets goofy and converses w/ confucious, et al. and then proposes a trialogue b/tw c. s. lewis, luther and thomas aquinas. don’t know where in the world he was coming from there. very original ideas about ecumenism, though. i’ll read this one again.

re-reading w/ a friend, but we’ve stopped for a while. i’ll pick this classic up again later.

i’ve been watching a relatively new ric burns documentary series on new york lately. originally broadcast on pbs, i got the dvds from netflix. awesome show! i found this book as a sort of companion, although i’m only @ the outset of the 19th century in the series, and the gen. slocum burned in the teens, i think.