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CH 8455 ~ Working through Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power by David Aikman (2006).

CH 9000 ~ Reading The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the
American South by Randall J. Stephens (2008). Still finishing Righteous Discontent by Higgenbotham from last week (it wasn’t required of me for the class so I’m taking my time with it). The text that we read for the class last week, After Redemption by John M. Giggie, was a delight. Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in African American religious history.

ST 5102 ~ I enjoyed the readings from Millard Erickson’s theology textbook last week. I finally got a good overview of the differences in the theories of protology out there, so eventually I may use that as a starting point for exploring the different systems and deciding what I believe. I was disappointed with Erickson’s argument for life beginning at conception; he completely ignored the “life begins at blood” possibility. I may just do my theology research paper on that topic.

This week I’m reading the first half of Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary on Sin by Cornelius Platinga, Jr. (1995).

Other ~ Still reading The Shack — didn’t touch it much this last week. Also picked up The Sacred Echo by Margaret Feinberg (2008).