To all my adoring fans,
super sorry that I haven't been posting that much. Life is crazy. Plus, I haven't been inspired (like I'm that specially that the Lord would speak canonically through me....poke. No, it's just that the Spirit closed the Canon around 425 AD) to write much lately. I just decided a moment ago to update you all with an update list of books with which I would like to update myself, so that I can be uh...up to date...
Without further a due (is that the right word?), I give you my new and improved, updated, reading list!
1.
Theology of the Body for Beginners
I know it's hard to believe that I
still haven't read this one. I probably know a lot of what is already written in here, but it's good to have read it so that when I recommend it to students or whomever else, I can say confidently that it will help them better understand themselves and God's will for their lives and how that's written into our very bodies. I'm looking at the copy I'm borrowing from the student group as we speak... All those people look so happy... smells fresh too!
2.
The Love That Satisfies
Again, another one I should have read by now. It's in Q&A format, a structure of which I'm getting a bit tired. Yet, I'll push through it and hopefully learn something. FOR THE STUDENTS AND FUTURE CHURCH!
3.
Love & Responsibility
Ah yes, some meaty theology, straight from the horse's mouth...or rather our former beloved Holy Father's mouth. Christopher West is a great teacher, but I think I'm more than ready to take on this work, filter-free... or nearly so because I just realized that I can't read Polish.
4.
The Church and New Media
I've read about half of this book already. It has some really good insights about how to use new technology to evangelize...yet some of the contributors, upon close examination, might contradict each other. Shea says to just blog about how you experience God and His Church whilst Marshall aims to simply transmit what the Church has always taught by citing the writings of the Saints and Church Fathers. Both men are still in accordance with the Church in how She transmits the gospel. It's just that Marshall makes it clear that what he blogs about is not just his own thoughts and experiences. I'm probably not doing either contributor justice, mind you...and I hope I didn't spoil anything. Fr. Barron's chapter alone is well worth buying the book!
5.
Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would
My friend and author of this book sent me a copy. I would comment on the *ahem* religious differences, but the Lord is working in Chad's life for sure. I watched a DVD I had of his. Chad, if you're reading this, here's my public commitment to reading your book....eventually.
Okay... I have a few more, but perhaps they are all books that I own and either started and never finished, or I just haven't gotten around to reading them. Someday I'd like to get through all the books on my shelf... That's going to be tough because I have to make myself read. Never did like doing that as a child... Oh yeah and there's still Scripture and Catechism in a year. I'm definitely still a month and half behind on that.
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