Sunday, October 22, 2006

What I'm reading right now

Among the books and magazines by my easy chair and bedside are:

- Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg--a fascinating review of contemporary theology on the historical Jesus vs. the Christ of faith. He articulates pretty much where I have ended up theologically, so it's quite encouraging to read.

- The Shark God by Charles Montgomery... the grandson of an Anglican missionary returns to the South Pacific isles his grandfather ministered among to discover the variety of religious expressions from high church Christianity to magic cults and more. Fascinating.

- The Complete New Yorker Cartoons

- The Confession by James McGreevey--haven't really gotten into this yet, and it's waiting along with Bob Newhart's new autobiography, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!

- Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner by Sulayman X... a novel about a Northern Thailand boy, son of a Thai prostitute and a farang (white non-Thai), who leaves the farm of his hateful grandparents to go to Bangkok, becomes a drug-addicted boy prostitute, and then is taken in by a kindly Imam. It really is beautifully told.

- Essential Thor Vol. 3 - Lee and Kirby at their zenith.

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