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Andrews, Andy.  How Do You Kill 11 Million People:  Why the Truth Matters More than You Think.  Nashville:  Thomas Nelson, 2011.  84p.  (This is a poignant and insightful book, as Andrews always produces.  He reviews the models of leadership of countries whose leaders and economic systems have affected the world, reviews the negative trends and their cost to the world.  He provides insights into negative trends in these systems, evaluating American tendencies over the last few years.)  Bought 16 June 2018 and read at that time.  Read again 26 April 2025.  American Politics and Culture

Andrews, Andy.  The Little Things:  Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Stuff.  Nashville:  W Publishing Group, 2017.  169p.  Bought March 2017 in Dallas, Texas and read at that time.  Read again 28-29 April 2025.  Business

Andrews, Andy.  The Noticer:  Sometimes all a person needs is a little perspective.  Nashville:  W Publishing Group, 2009.  169p.  Bought 10 October 2017 in Arlington, Texas and read at that time.  Read again 16-19 May 2025.  Faith & Life

Bakeman, Willard.  Conviction Overturned:  Jesus, the Bible, Evidence, and Reason: A Trial Attorney’s Perspective.  Coppell, Texas:  No Publisher, 2024.  330p.  (A forensic history analyzing the Gospels and historical evidence for the story of Jesus and early Christianity.  The author does a very thorough comparative analysis of the various Gospel stories and the writings of the New Testament in analytical comparison with each other and historical clues and evidence.  The analysis and conclusions along the way involve good, critical logic.  He deals at length with the contradictions in the various stories of the four Gospels.  Bakeman knows his historical sources and can make a detailed analysis understandable and meaningful.  He also repeats key factors at each step so his reasoning is fairly easy to follow.  A great limitation of this analysis and conclusions he draws are that he insists on reading the New Testament documents as though they were modern journalistic reports or historical reconstructions.  He seems unaware of the cultural differences between the modern linear-analytical era of logic and the first century pattern of writing in a concrete-relational culture.  There is no evidence of any awareness of well-known literary analysis techniques, and common motifs and story-telling formats.  He follows fundamentalist literalism in his attempt to defeat Christian apologists using this same mindset.  He therefore misreads the texts the same way the fundamentalists do by insisting they be read as though the writers were writing from a modern scientific and historical perspective.  He makes some very good points about the text, but insists that the texts be read as though they were eye-witness of researched investigative accounts of events.  Thus his reductionistic logic deduces they are either true (in the sense of representing overt verifiable events) or a lie.  He seems unaware of the extensive academic discipline of Orality, or Storying which reveals and explores the dynamic relational, figurative character of ancient story-telling and its expressive motifs and use of symbols and metaphors.  He also accepts and follows the fundamentalist literalists in assuming that “prophecy” as used by the New Testament writers was simple prediction of future events.  So he can easily dismiss the obvious misapplication of ancient passages.  This he does rightly, because “prophecy” in the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) were primarily proclamations, preaching to and within the historical context of that prophet.  Fortune-telling is not the focus, and that understanding and use of the word “prophecy” in the biblical context is actually a misuse and misunderstanding of that ancient discipline.  Academic and missional studies of the New Testament writers confirms that they used references from Old Testament writings that would have been very familiar to their Jewish hearers (the New Testament letters and Gospel stories would have been read orally to gatherings of followers, not read individually like in modern literate times).  They were analogies or metaphors to illustrate the story the Gospelers were writing about Jesus and Old Testament passages would help create interpretive contexts for seeing who Jesus was to the writers who followed Jesus as the Messiah.  The writings themselves do not indicate that they thought the original writers of the passages they reference were telling the future as predictions.  They were addressing real-time situations of their time and place.  The New Testament writers had the Old Testament writings before them (or in memory) for reference.  There was no miracle in the “fulfillment” of the Old Testament prophecies.  They had those ready for reference and used them to illustrate and confirm or emphasize their claims about Jesus.  Bakeman is correct in pointing this out.  It is a major weakness of fundamentalist (literalist) Christian “apologists” that they would claim there was something miraculous in the “fulfilled prophecies” of Jesus.  The writers (storytellers) of the Gospels had those stories right there for reference.  The book is poorly edited, apparently self-published, not even a publisher name.  That in itself is not a knock against Bakeman/ But the book is rife with misspelling, mismatches of singular-plural uses of noun-noun or verb-noun and tense problems.  Syntax is incorrect or confusing in many places.  A good edit would improve the book’s readability.  The wooden insistence of raw literalist analysis is the weakest characteristic of the book.  But the alert and interested reader can learn many details about the historical situation and historical references pertinent to the validity of the New Testament documents.)  Borrowed from a friend 1 June 2025.  Read 4-26 June 2025.  Bible Background (Use of Prophecy; Contradictions in the Gospel stories; Concept of Evidence)

Bieber, Michael R.  Growing in the Dark:  A Conversation with My Father.  No publication information, 2024. 316p.  (An inferred biography that Bieber writes about his father, who died in 1980, Bieber writes a biography of his father based on memories and later discoveries about his father.  He writes this reflection in the form of a dialogue over time.  Bieber is a PhD psychoanalyst, and writes from this field of expertise as he reflects upon his lack of relationship with his father.  This extended dialogue represents conversations he wishes he could have had with his father, who was very secretive and mysterious, and never really present for the family.  The books was actually finished and edited by his wife, because Bieber died before he finished these reflections.  She includes an afterword and some notes and essays that her husband also wrote.  This book was interesting, but I found it hard to read.  The invented dialogue seemed stilted and artificial.  Much was assumed line to line and the responses did not seem to fit.  Answers and implications in responses seems strained.  It was psychologically stimulating and informative, fostering reflection on my own upbringing and self-reflection.  But it was not an enjoyable read.  The author appears to be a competent psychoanalyst, but a writer he is not.)  Borrowed from a friend 24 April 2025.  Read 7-20 May 2025.  Biography (Psychology, Fiction, Family Dynamics)

Block, Daniel I and Richard L Schultz.  Bind Up the Testimony:  Explanations in the Genesis of the Book of Isaiah.  Peabody Massachusetts:  Hendrickson, 2015.  354p.  (A series of essays by Bible scholars on the authorship of the biblical book of the prophet Isaiah.  They probe at great academic and historical depth the possibility of single or multiple authors.  The essays involve extensive Hebrew linguistic comparison, comparison of the passages, motifs and literary styles in different sections of the book with other writings form Mesopotamian cultures.  Some of the writers propose a single author, while others defend a multi-author composition of the book as we now have it.  All write within the evangelical framework.)  Bought 15 March 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 8-12 July 2025.  Bible (Bible Backgrounds, Cultural and Historical Context; Faith and Life)

Campbell, Ted A.  Methodist Doctrine:  The Essentials (Revised Edition).  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 2011.  159p.  Received 30 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 5-6 May 2025.  Theology (Church History)

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de.  The Phenomenon of Man.  NY:  HarperPerennial Modern Thought, 2008.  276p.  (A 1955 classic of palaeontology and cosmological philosophy.  Chardin was a French Jesuit priest who was also a world-renowned palaeontologist.  Chardin was involved in some of the earliest discovery of prehistoric human fossils, and is best known for his consultations on Peking Man, for which he is considered a codiscoverer.  He wrote on cosmology and was a thoughtful philosophical theologian.  Most of his works were proscribed by the Pope during his lifetime.  They have all been published since his death in 1955 and this volume is his best-known work.  Here he provides a philosophical cosmology giving perspectives on the origins of the universe and life on earth from a scientific perspective.)  Gift from a friend 9 July 2025.  Read 12-17 July 2025.  Philosophy (Cosmology, Philosophy, Consciousness)

Childers, Alisa and Tim Barnett.  The Deconstruction of Christianity:  What it Is, Why it’s Destructive and How to Respond.  Carol Stream, Illinois:  Elevate (Tyndale), 2023.  276p.  Read 28-31 January 2025.  Philosophy (Religion and Philosophy; Sociology; Postmodernism)

Cornwell, Patricia.  Predator.  NY:  Penguin Audio, 2005.  Audiobook.  (A very complex case for pathologist Kay Scarpeta, involving multiple murders and several liens of intrigue and personality conflicts within and outside the law enforcement and forensic circles.)  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Heard 10 March - 15 April 2025.  Fiction (Murder Mystery, Forensics)

Dennis, Jon M.  Christ + City:  Why the Greatest Need of the City is the Greatest News of All.  Wheaton:  Crossway, 2013.  205p.  Bought 23 September 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 5-7 January 2025.  Church & Culture (Urbanization, Morality, Diversity)

Dooley, Mike.  The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell Out.  NY:  Hay House, 2014.  215p.  Borrowed 27 March 2025 from a friend.  Read 1-12 April 2025.  Philosophy (Metaphysics, Occult)

Evans, Jimmy and Karen.  Marriage on the Rock:  Your Dream Marriage.  Ventura, California:  Regal (Gospel Light), 1994.  282p.  Read 25-28 February 2025.  Personal Development (Marriage, Faith, Relationships)

Fathea’zam, Hooshmand.  The New Garden.  New Delhi, India:  Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1980.  134p.  (This books explains the origins, beliefs and practices of the Baha’i religion.  This religion affirms the unity of all prior religions and revelations, teaches one God and aligns the movement with the Abrahamic (monotheistic) religions.  It focuses on inner relationships with God and community, fosters peace and harmony across all humanity.  The book outlines how local regional or national and international bodies of “Spiritual Assemblies” relate and work for peace.  The movement focuses on cooperation and dialogue with all other religions. And emphasizes benevolence ministries.  The historical foundation start with the Manifestation of God fo our time, Baha’u’llah, and his successor Abd-ul-Bahá and his successor Shogi Effendi and their writings.  These are the sacred texts of Baha’i, along with the previous biblical texts and the Hindu Vedas.  The annual calendar of events, called Feasts, and their meaning and procedures, are explained in this book.  Baha’is have no priests, and the leadership and work of the assemblies (local to international bodies for worship and fellowship) are “lay” members.  Outreach is their primary focus.  I had not studied Baha’i for a long while, and had never read this whole volume fully all the way through.  It was informative and instructive.)  Bought 25 September 1981 at the Nairobi Show, the national Exposition of Kenya.  Portions previously read for reference.  Read 23-26 May 2025.  Religions (Unity, Peace and Harmony)

Gurman, Dan.  The Kid Who Ran for President.  NY:  Recorded Books, 2001.  Audiobook.  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Heard 31 May 2025.  Fiction (Social Comment, Comedy)

Halpin, Chris.  The Mind’s Eye Collection.  London/NY:  Austin-McCauley Publishers, 2023.  116p.  (Poetry, expressing life concerns as well as presenting the perspective from the viewpoint of an autistic mental state.)  Borrowed from a friend 24 April 2025.  Read 30 April - 1 May 2025.  Personal Development (Mental Health, Autism)

Hamilton, Adam.  Christianity and World Religions:  Wrestling With Questions People Ask.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 2005.  133p.  (This author is the past of the largest United Methodist Church in the World with about 25,000 members at the time the book was published in 2005.  This is the Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, a megachurch, one of the largest in the USA.  Hamilton is a world-renowned author on religion, spirituality and Bible study.  He is a leader in the United Methodist Church, a prolific author and active on social media.  He writes this book to inform Christians of the primary religions of the world and to reflect on a Christian perspective on these religious expressions n how Christians may relate to them.  He does a good job presenting each in its historical context and social development, as well as the main beliefs and practices, then deftly analyzes them in simple terms and evaluates similarities and details differences of each from the Christian faith.  He deals with Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism.)  Received 2 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 21-22 May 2025.  Religions (Christianity and World Religions; Theology)

Hearn, Mark, with Darcy Wiley.  Hearing in Technicolor:  Mindset Shifts within a Multicultural Congregation.  Nashville:  B & H Press, 2021.  220p.  Bought 13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 16-18 January 2025.  Church and Culture (Cultural Diversity, Church Renewal, Church Unity)

Heitzig, Lenya.  Reload Love: Transforming Bullets to Beauty and Battlegrounds to Playgrounds.  Eugene, Oregon:  Harvest House Publishers, 2018.  193p.  (Helping refugees in various countries, working with peoples of various religions and cultures.  Christian service in areas of war, creating peace and reclamation after or during wars.)  Bought 13 December 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 22-24 February 2025.  Peoples & Cultures, Sociology

Hudson, Winthrop S.  Walter Rauschenbusch:  Selected Writings.  NY:  Paulist Press, 1984.  252p.  Received 27 March 2025 as a gift from a friend.  Read 26-31 May 2025.  Theology (Church and Society, Social Gospel, History)

Jenkins, Beverly.  Night Hawk.  NY:  Recorded Books, 2012.  Audiobook.  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Finished 28 May 2025.  Historical Fiction (Native American, American West)

Johnstone, Patrick, with Dean Merrill.  Serving God in Today’s Cities.  Downer’s Grove, Illinois:  IVP Books, 2018.  117p.  Bought 13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 24-25 January 2025.  Church and Culture

Leeman, Jonathan.  The Rule of Love:  How the Local Church Should Reflect God’s Love and Authority.  Wheaton:  Crossway, 2018.  174p.  Bought 13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 3-4 January 2025.  Church and Culture (Theology; Church Renewal)

Knight, George R.  Myths in Adventism:  An Interpretive Study Study of Ellen White, Education, and Related Issues.  USA:  Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1999.  272p.  Received 25 June 2024 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read June - 3 July 2025.  Religions (Church History, Denominational Controversy)

Levine, Amy-Jill.  The Gospel of Mark:  A Beginner’s Guide to the Good News.  Nashville:  Abingdon, 2023.  154p.  (A scholarly study of this gospel written for non-academics by a renowned Jewish New Testament scholar.) Received 5 March 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 16-19 March 2025.  Bible (Cultural and Historical Context; Faith and Life)

Lithgow, John.  Dumpty:  The Age of Trump in Verse.  San Francisco:  Chronicle Prism, 2019.  112p.  Borrowed 27 March 2025 from a friend.  Read 28-31 March 2025.  American Politics and Culture (Poetry)

Luker, Lamontte M.  The Land of the Bible:  An Illustrated Guide to the Holy Land, Its People, and Its History.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 2019.  194p.  (written by an archaeologist as a visitor’s guidebook for the modern land of Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.  He provides historical and archaeological information on each location, information from biblical history and church history, and specific history of key events that took place in each local and when churches were built.  Layers of history and archaeology are built into this excellent travelogue of history, with color photos all through the volume.  Pocket size.)  Borrowed from a friend 1 June 2025.  Read 4-26 June 2025.  Bible Background (History, Archaeology)

Maathai, Wangari.  Unbowed:  A Memoir.  NY:  Anchor Books, 2007.  326p.  (An autobiography by this Kenyan environmentalist who tells the story of her whole life and how she became a central icon is the fight to save Kenya’s fast-diminishing forests from the corruption of Kenyan politicians clear-cutting and allotting public lands to enrichment schemes for leaders.  Ultimately recognized and protected by other countries and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  She tells in great detail the ins and outs of the fight for democracy in Kenya under ever more oppressive dictatorial governments.  I lived in Kenya during much of the time she recounts here, yet learned more details of persons and events from her in this book.)  Bought 26 September 2024 from the Arlington Library.  Read 8-16 February 2025.  Biography (Kenyan History, The Environmental Movement, Pro-Democracy Activism)

McCord, Beth and Jeff.  Becoming Us:  Using the Enneagram to Create a Thriving Gospel-Centered Marriage.  Nashville/NY:  Morgan James Publishing, 2020.  232p.  Read 14-23 July 2025.  Faith & Life (Spiritual Disciplines)

Miller, Bruce B.  Leading a Church in a Time of Sexual Questioning:  Grace-Filled Wisdom for Day-to-Day Ministry.  Nashville:  Thomas Nelson, 2019.  245p.  Bought 27 May 2023 from Christianbook.  Read 5-8 June 2025.  Church & Culture (Sexuality and Gender Identity, Christian Attitudes)

Moore, Beth.  All My Knotted-Up Life:  A Memoir.  Carol Stream, Illinois:  Tyndale Momentum, 2023.  295p.  Received 18 December 2023 from the Little Library of St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 8-18 January 2025.  Biography (Theology, Southern Baptists; Integrity)

Morrison, Erika.  Bandersnatch:  An Invitation to Explore Your Unconventional Soul. Nashville:  W Publishing (Thomas Nelson), 2015.  13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 18-22 February 2025.  Faith and Life (Art, Anthropology and Change)

Nappa, Amy and Mike.  Hard Way Home:  A Woman’s Inspiring Battle with Cancer and the Lives She Touched.  Eugene Oregon:  Harvest House, 2019.  251p.  Bought 13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 22-24 January 2025.  Inspiration

Pagels, Elaine.  The Origin of Satan:  How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics.  NY:  Vintage Books (Random House), 1996.  214p.  Received 2 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 30 May - 3 June 2025.  Theology (Philosophy, Cultural History)

Payne, Philip B.  The Bible vs Biblical Womanhood:  How God’s Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality.  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 2023.  223p.  Bought 13 December 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 31 December 2024 - 3 January 2025.  Church and Culture (Biblical Textual Criticism; Role of Women; Paul’s Theology)

Patterson, James.  Humans, Bow Down.  NY:  Hachette Audio (Little-Brown), 2017.  Audiobook.  (A look into the future after humans have created sentient robots, who then decided to take over the world and remove humans.  A remnant remain as slaves and second-class, despised entities after 90% of the world human population has been wiped out.  A Q-bot police detective, one of the elite robots that has developed emotions and a conscience, works with human teenage rebels to fight the system.  Thoughtful and exciting adventure and science concepts.)  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Heard over a long period, finished 3 February 2025.  Fiction (Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Robots)

Patterson, James.  Kill Me If You Can.  NY:  Hachette Audio (Little-Brown), 2011.  Audiobook.  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Finished 30 June 2025.  Fiction (Murder for Hire)

Patterson, James.  Merry Christmas, Alex Cross.  NY:  Hachette Audio (Little-Brown), 2012.  Audiobook.  Bought 23 September 2023 from the Arlington Library.  Heard 16-17 June 2025.  Fiction (Terrorism, Murder)

Pivec, Holly and R Douglas Geivett.  Counterfeit Kingdom:  The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices.  Brentwood:  B & H Publishing, 2022.  257p.  Bought 10 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 26-28 January 2025.  Theology (American Christianity, Church History, Pentecostalism)

Prince Harry.  Spare.  NY:  Random House, 2023.  410p.  (An autobiography that takes us through his whole life within his own thoughts and feelings, how the world looked to him as a child losing his mother, through his schooling and military service in great detail and up to his separation for the royal family identity.  He never got to really grieve over the loss of his mother Princess Diana.  He always felt treated as the Spare to his brother Willy, the Heir to the throne after their father Charles.  So he refers often to the Heir and the Spare.  He sees himself as a neglected spare, of value only as a backup son in case anything happened to older brother William.  Poignant and brave.  Because of royal protocols and expectations, he was limited in most ways, to the schools he could choose, the type of activities or professions he could learn and engage in.  His military service in Afghanistan gave him PTSD, and there was little help available.  He details the oppression of the paparazzi, whom he blamed for his mother’s death in France, and clearly expresses the distress and stress they caused him and his family, his friends and especially his girlfriends, then his wife Meghan Markle.  He gradually realized he already had PTSD from his mother's death and his inability to grieve, partly due to the formal requirements of the royal ritual and limitations on the royal family's public and internal protocols.  Hard to read, in places, due to cumbersome syntax and sometimes assumed context that brought up unanswered questions and was puzzling at times.  Slow reading because of backtracking to check out and clarify.)  Borrowed 8 March 2024 from the Little Library of St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 4 March - 24 April 2024.  Biography (Royal Family)

Rittenhouse, Flora.  Our Story Matters:  Reflections on a Lifetime of Cross-Cultural Ministry.  Flora Rittenhouse, 2025.  144p.  Bought 28 February 2025 from Amazon.  Read 1-3 March 2025.  Biography (Faith and Life)

Roesdahl, Else.  The Vikings.  NY:  Penguin, 1998.   324p.  Received as a gift September 2022.  Read 23 March - 7 April 2025.  History (Scandinavia, Viking Age, 700s-1100.)

Runyon, Theodore.  The New Creation:  John Wesley’s Theology Today.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1998.  270p.  Received 30 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 12-15 May 2025.  Theology (Faith and Life, Ecology)

Scott, Josh.  Bible Stories for Grownups:  Reading the Scripture with New Eyes.  Nashville:  Abingdon, 2023.  122p.  Borrowed 17 June 2025 from a friend.  Read 26-30 June 2025.  Bible (History; Bible Backgrounds)

Smith, Efrem.  Killing Us Softly:  Reborn in the Upside-Down Image of God.  La Mirada, California:  Talbot School of Theology, September 2024.  (The Gospel Life as counter-culture, following Jesus in the way of death to bring life.  The Way of Jesus as a new way, opposite way of the world’s way of death, power, violence and domination.  Dying to self to gain power of life for self and others.  It was a refreshing read, in light of what is happening right now in American social movements and political events, with the new threat of Christian Nationalism and authoritarianism.)  Bought 13 December 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 31 January - 3 February 2024.  Church & Culture (Counter-Cultural Life, Life through Death)

Steele, Danielle.  The Duchess.  NY:  Recorded Books, 2017.  Audiobook.  Bought 23 September 2024 from the Arlington Library.  Finished 1 March 2025.  Fiction (19th Century English Nobility)

Tripp, Paul David.  Reactivity:  How the Gospel Transforms Our Actions and Reactions.  Wheaton:  Crossway, 2022.  170p.  Bought 13 December 2024 on Christianbook.  Read 18-21 January 2025.  Faith and Life

Tenbusch, Mike.  The Jonathan Effect:  Helping Kids and Schools Win the Battle Against Poverty.  Downers Grove, Illinois:  IVP Books, 2016.  Bought 13 December 2024 from Christianbook.  Read 24-25 July 2025.  Church & Culture (Counter-Cultural Life, Life through Death)

Warner, Lacye C.  Knowing Who We Are:  The Wesleyan Way of Grace:  What We Believe, What We Do, and Why.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 2024.  138p.  Received 30 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 1-4 May 2025.  Theology (Faith and Life, Church History)

Weatherhead, Leslie D.  The Manner of the Resurrection:  In the Light of Modern Science and Psychical Research.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1959.  92p.  Received 30 April 2025 from St Barnabas United Methodist Church, Arlington, Texas.  Read 6-7 May 2025.  Theology (Faith and Life, Church History)

Whitney, Donald S.  Praying the Bible.  Wheaton:  Crossway, 2015.  107p.  Received from the Better Together Church in Arlington, Texas 11 June 2025.  Read 11 June 2025.  Faith & Life (Spiritual Disciplines)

Wilder, Jim.  Renovated:  An Introduction to Epistemology.  Colorado Springs, Colorado:  NavPress (Navigators/Tyndale House), 2020.  220p.  Read 3-7 February 2025.  Philosophy (Epistemology; Neurology; Metaphysics; Spirit Filling, “Attachment Love”)

Young, Ed.  In the Zone:  Hitting the Bullseye of God’s Blessings.  Dallas:  Creality Publishing, 2025.  100p.  Read 19-22 January 2025.  Personal Development (Finances, Generosity)

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Brechin, Gray.  Imperial San Francisco:  Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.  Berkeley/LA:  University of California Press, 1999.  402p.  Bought 6 April 2018 in Arlington, Texas.  Read 28-31 March 2025.  American Politics and Culture (Poetry)

Montefiore, Simon Sebag.  Jerusalem:  The Biography.  NY:  Vintage (Random House), 2011.  649p.  Borrowed 11 September 2024 in Arlington, Texas.  Read 30 September - 2025.  History (History of Jerusalem)

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