W. E. B. Du Bois' revelatory collection of fourteen essays, The Souls of Black Folk, (amazon) kicks off my year of readings on Black-American culture and history. *** In this article, I have referred to people of African descent as "black," "black folk," or "black people." After a few conversations with friends of darker skin pigmentation and African …
Review | The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's classic, The Cost of Discipleship (Amazon), is a piercingly beautiful tribute to the life completely surrendered to Christ. Bonhoeffer frames his snapshot of the Disciple's life with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Throughout his exposition on the text and the various aspects of Christian life, Bonhoeffer reminds the disciple that nothing but single-minded obedience …
The Berg 