Whatcha reading?

[E.C.]

We're all reading some book whether it is for school, a class, for fun or just the spiritual growth.


I'm reading a few books right now.
"Wounded By Love" is about the life of Elder Porphyrios, a truly saintly being, I'm reading a few pages a week for a book discussion group in preparation for Pascha (Easter). A truly motivating read.

"For the Life of the World" which is about the sacramental theology of the Orthodox Church. I'm reading this because I have heard good things about it and it is edifying.

And a few books about bias in the media for an English 101 paper.

How about you? What are you reading these days?

 

[Athanasius7]

Wounded By Love" is about the life of Elder Porphyrios, a truly saintly being

Could you give some more detail? Thanks.

As for me, at the moment I'm reading Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis, and at some point I will be returning to G.K. Chesterton's Autobiography (which has to have the best opening for a book I have ever read. )

God bless

 

[E.C.]

Wounded By Love" is about the life of Elder Porphyrios, a truly saintly being

Could you give some more detail? Thanks.

He was an Orthodox heiromonk (priest-monk) in Greece from about the 1920s or 1930s until he died in 1991. He joined a monastery on Mt. Athos, a peninsula covered with twenty monasteries and various hermitages in Greece, at the age of twelve and became a monk at fourteen or fifteen. At some point, God took him away from the Holy Mountain and he served as a hospital chaplain in Athens from about 1940 to 1970. Founded a monastery or two throughout Greece, returned to the Holy Mountain in the 1980s where he remained until his death.

Now, what makes his life and his wisdom stand out, is its simplicity. Usually when one reads the Church Fathers one reads a writing that is in response to a problem. For example St. Athanasius's writing "On the Incarnation"; Athanasius is responding to the problem of the heresy of Arianism - an edifying read, yet a little on the intellectual side. Yet, Elder Porphyrios lived simply. He basically said over and over and over again to love God and each other. When I read the book, it is as if he is in the same room having a conversation with me. He was a simple man, yet a saintly man full of humility and a love of God though he would not admit to it. He doesn't talk about how Christ is both God and Man or some other theological issue, but just on how to live one's daily life and how to love God and how to pray and things of that nature. It is just... powerful.

 

[Athanasius7]

Thanks!

He certainly sounds like a person who would be good to read about.

 

[Hunter Mac]

Neuro-Biological Text book.

 

[xPandax]

I just finished "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair and I'm reading "The Sun Also Rises" again by Hemingway. It was one of my favorites in high school, and I haven't read it in a couple years and I want to see if my perspective has changed since i've grown.

 

[peanutbutter12]

Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist.

 

[Marycita]

A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe

It's Not About Me - Max Lucado

and

A Theology of Love - Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

 

[stephanieamber]

I wish I had read something you guys listed so I could feel cool

I'm reading "Soul Virgins" and I don't remember who its by off the top of my head.

 

[fireman1173005]

The Relationship Principles of Jesus by Tom Holliday, it goes along with the 40 Days of Love study. Great book!!!

 

[ryanb6]

The Exeplary Husband - Stuart Scott

 

[DanC922]

Finally Alive by John Piper and Death by Love by Mark Driscoll.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

A nation among nations: American History by Thomas Bender. The guy tries to put american history into world history so we can look at America's growth from a global context.

Psychology of Personality book, Spanish book, and Relgion within the limits of reason alone by Immanuel Kant.

On my own, I suppose I should finish up Kierkegaard. (For self examination) and move on to something else, like the G.K. Chesterton Book I have.

 

[PristineSkies]

I was reading some Christmas stories book two days back...it's 'The Christmas Box collection' i think....too lazy to go to the other room and check the name

 

[gennypearl]

Fundamentals of Negotiable Instruments Law by Salvador E. Austria and Timoteo B. Aquino...it''s actually one of the reviewers that I have to study, I'll be taking an exam for certified public accountants this may...so pray for me.. thanks....

 

[NicNac]

Human Motivation Text book

 

[Trashionista]

The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain.
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
No one Here Gets Out Alive - Jerry Hopkins.
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck.

 

[peace in the vally]

Frank Peretti

 

[MilitantSheep]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

 

[fantascey]

the book i wrote