a true story

The disciples were full of questions about God.
Said the Master, “God is Unknown, the Unknowable. Every statement about Him,every answer to your questions, is a distortion of the Truth.”

The disciples were bewildered. “Then why do you speak about Him at all?”
“Why does the bird sing?” said the Master.
Not because he has a statement, but because [...]

Amoz Oz was recently in Gothenburg (where I live) promoting his newest book “Rhyming life and death”.
It made me pick up a copy of  Amoz Oz`s “how to cure a fanatic”. If you haven’t read it, it is a must read (and short read) for anyone interested in finding common ground with people you don’t [...]

I have read so many fantastic books 2008, old and new. Here are a few that are outstanding:
Fiction:
Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostevsky
Nonfiction:
Let your life speak by Parker J. Palmer
The bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Biography:
a billion lives by Jan Egeland

Theology:
The CS lewis book on the bible by Schriftman,
Christian thought [...]

I saw a documentary about Amos Oz tonight. You can watch it here.
He says the following towards the end of the movie;
“we live now in a world where people work harder than they should be working in order to make more money than they really need, in order to buy things they don’t really want [...]

” Many denominations, movements, and individual Christians hold to a certain position not because they have honestly examined all possible viewpoints and then arrived at their conclusion; they simply believe what they believe because they have never heard anything else. Or, if they heard of an alternative, they immediately dismissed it without serious consideration – [...]

Jacob Schriftmans latest book the C.S Lewis book on the bible has been an insightful, thought provoking and truly enjoyable read. It’s one of those books I will return to, and enjoy again. Schriftman gives us a carefully-reasoned yet entertaining read. His writing style is superb and clear.
The book centers around two parts. The first [...]