In no particular order, here is my list of the best books I read during this past year
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything – David Dark
Definitely the one book with the most profound effect on me this year. Dark says not only is it not damaging to a life of faith to question everything, it is [...]
Breaking my blogging hiatus here to pass on word about a virtual class my wife has set up. We’ll be reading through and discussing Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid using M.I.T.’s Open Courseware. Here’s the course description:
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema