Two Scandinavian buddies writing each other letters about soccer? Sign me up.

How Karl Ove Knausgaard watches soccer.

It’s strange, the things we miss when they’re gone.

It's an odd book. You can't say you weren't warned.

When COVID-19 hit, Susana Navarette thought first of her sewing classes.

During hard times, let’s give ourselves grace to read books that won't simply weigh us down.

Revisiting Cornelius Plantinga's “breviary of sin.”

A classic of Mexican literature.

A brief word about Shawn Smucker’s novel Light from Distant Stars.

Thank you, Dr. Mouw, for being you. And thanks for helping to show us the way.

A brief commendation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books.

Recently I’ve read a couple of (very different) books on Christian mission that I’d recommend.

A graphic biography of the "largely unsung and often misunderstood" German-American philosopher.

Previewing Jeremy Beer’s biography of “baseball’s greatest forgotten player.”

What will it be, Punxsutawney Phil?

A few words on Samantha Power’s award-winning book about genocide.

Aelred of Rievaulx on the gift of friendship.

My review of Reading Buechner by Jeffrey Munroe.

Per tradition, my annual list of favorites.

My review of David C. Kirkpatrick’s A Gospel for the Poor.