A Psychologist’s 2023 Reading
Keller’s final gift to the church made me cry, highlight, and text it to all my friends to get someone else to read it so I could discuss.
Keller’s final gift to the church made me cry, highlight, and text it to all my friends to get someone else to read it so I could discuss.
This year’s list has a counselling and pastoral care focus, as well as covering some different life stages (admittedly at the younger end!).
My greatest fear when I preach is that I will be boring.
My reading each year is a diet made up of three different categories: theology books, leadership books (Christian or secular), and general non-fiction books on whatever topic catches my eye. Here are the ten books that most left an impression on me this year. These aren’t necessarily recommendations (some I loved and agreed with, others less so) but everything on the list made an impression. Who is God? by Richard Bauckham Bauckham’s four-chapter book is full of profound insights. He reflects on four key moments of God’s revelation: (1) Jacob’s Ladder in Genesis; (2) God revealing his name in the burning...
Here are the highlights of my 2022 reading year (in no particular order) Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri On a basic level, Everything Sad is Untrue tells the story of Daniel Nayeri’s early life in Iran and his family’s traumatic escape to a new life in America. But such a description fails to convey the joy, humour and magic of this wonderful book. Nayeri recounts his story from the perspective of his younger self—sometimes as if it were a tale from the Arabian Nights. He writes with a wide-eyed appeal, a knowing wink, and with unabashed love for the Saviour who...