Books read February 2014

February was a good month for taking care of sick children and trying to put together a class syllabus. It was not a good month for meeting reading goals.

My goal is to read at least 52 books in 2014 (at least one book per week); I've finished 7 books so far this year: I finished the following books in February (~427 pages).:

Los orígenes de nuestra cultura autoritaria by José Ignacio Garcia Hamilton
The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited by Scot McKnight

García's tome on how the colonial history of Latin America (and specifically, Argentina) continues to plague its progress was very interesting, and I put up a long review/summary (in Spanish) at Good Reads.

McKnight's little thesis was good and reached a lot of conclusions I've already reached from reading John Driver.

Books read January 2014

My goal is to read at least 52 books in 2014 (at least one book per week). I read the following books in January (~1086 pages).

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith by Stuart Murray
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Piense: la vida intelectual y el amor de Dios by John Piper [Think]
Guía para preparar monografías y otros texto expositivos by Ezequiel Ander-Egg and Pablo Valle

1. Piper's Think was probably my favorite.
2. The most riveting reading were the chapters surrounding Miller's Bridge in On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. As my two-year-old would say: "Oh my!". Oh my! indeed.
3. Most pleasently surprising/personally challenging was Rosaria Champagne Butterfield's which I offhandly picked up on New Years and couldn't put it down.
4. I liked The Naked Anabaptist, as would be expected, but it seemed like a more exact title would be  An Emergent, Postchristendom Church, in Anabaptist Clothing