Update

If you're just joining us, welcome! I'll be posting quotes from Mark Driscoll's The Radical Reformission this quarter. Feel free to do whatever you want with this blog.

I've decided to go back to the quarter system and post quotes from Mark Driscoll's The Radical Reformission on every day when Caltech has class this fall term. There were several reasons for this: I fell behind, the post office lost a shipment of most of my Christian books to me, and most of the blog's followers that I know of are still at Caltech. In any case, I have a new copy from Amazon, and plan to continue posting these quotes after all. Spread the word!

Introducing: Good News for Anxious Christians

Hello to everyone who still reads this blog!

First, I want to apologize for delaying the posting of the last few The Four Loves quotes. They are up according to the date they should have been posted on, but didn't actually make it up until my Spring Break.

For the next term, I'll be recounting the single book that has most changed my views during my college years, one that I've already recommended to many Christians, particularly those who have been Christians for a while. There are some misstatements that seep into our thinking from being in the church a while that just aren't true, and this book is both a counter to that and a reminder to all of us what the real gospel is. The book is Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don't Have to Do by Philip Cary (2010).

There are ten chapters, and I'll be sharing my favorite quotes from each chapter, one per week. Feel free to read along with the book this term, or just to enjoy these choice snippets. I'll start posting tomorrow.

Plans for next term

Hello to anyone who reads this blog! (Apparently it gets some traffic from Russia, too!)

For Caltech's next winter term (January 4 through March 16), I will be continuing this blog with a post per day from CS Lewis' The Four Loves. To give you some ideas, here are some potential ways you can use this blog:

• Follow along individually, reading the appropriate quote each morning and meditating on it privately.
• Read the quote in a group of any size and discuss it.
• Get a copy of the book and read through it on your own. Use the blog to give you benchmarks for how far you should have read if you want to finish in one term.
• Along with any of these, start a discussion in the comment thread. Don't worry about if you know the others who are reading the blog.
• Scan over the labels and find the topics that interest you and read those quotes. (I make sure to give each quote one specific and one chapter-based label, if possible.)
• Stumble across this blog on the internet in search of a quote by Bonhoeffer or Lewis... and then use the quote for whatever purpose you wanted it for.

However it serves you, I hope this blog can be worth the hour per week or so it takes me to type the quotes up. I benefit as well, so it really isn't a high bar to clear. :)