The Disparate Ones, virtual book launch

December 31, 2024/

You can attend Marty's virtual book launch for The Disparate Ones: Essays on Being in the World, but Not of the World.

The best books I read in 2023

December 31, 2023/

Memoir, theology, history, and fiction, here's the list of best books I read in 2023.

December 12, 2022/

I had a lot of free time this year due to a work transition, so I was blessed to read more than 40…

December 18, 2020/

Not every book I read was new; two more than 50 years old. These are the ten best books I read in 2020.

December 27, 2017/

Each year until I die, I'll attempt to read several thousand pages on the same subject each calendar year.

July 19, 2016/

As in so many cases, some critics overshot their target.

April 9, 2016/

In 2016 I find few people longing for outhouses with the Sears, Roebuck catalog or the possibility of being lynched.

April 6, 2016/

After about 35 years of Bible study there is one thing I would recommend near the top of the list to help you…

December 30, 2015/

Ordinary Injustice is a profoundly insightful and disturbing book. It is will worth adding to your 2016 reading list.

December 2, 2015/

And, I'm reminded--excepting a divine extraction or being chosen to colonize Mars--I will return to this planet. Dust to dust.