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O Me of Little Faith
Flexibility, Heretics, and Love Wins
By
Jason Boyett
This is the last thing I’m going to write about Rob Bell’s book Love Wins, and it’s not even really about the book. I’ve read the book. I enjoyed parts of it. I was frustrated with parts of it. I hate Rob Bell’s writing style, which sounds exactly like he speaks but, you know, shouldn’t.…
Stanley Fish’s Favorite Sentences (and Mine, too)
By
Jason Boyett
This week I stumbled onto a blog post at Slate in which Stanley Fish, the literary critic and New York Times columnist, lists what he thinks are the top five sentences in the English language. The author of the new book How to Write a Sentence, Fish says he carries sentences around with him “as…
Your Turn: Best Books of the Year
By
Jason Boyett
Simple questions today, and it’s up to you to provide the content for this post: 1. What is the best work of fiction you’ve read this year? 2. What’s the best work of nonfiction you’ve read this year? 3. What book are you reading right now? My answers will appear in the comments. I hope…
Carlene Bauer’s Not That Kind of Girl
By
Jason Boyett
Right now I’m reading Not That Kind of Girl, a memoir by Carlene Bauer that released in hardback last year from HarperCollins (it just came out in paperback this summer). It tells Carlene’s story of a childhood in evangelical churches, only to slowly grow out of that faith in college, then to convert to Catholicism…
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