Review: How to Create a Mind
How would you go about creating a human brain? Do we know enough about the brain that we could – at least theoretically – create something comparable with technology? These are the kinds of...
Reviews
Review: Belonging
Why and how do people experience a sense of belonging? How could we cultivate it? These are the kinds of questions that inspired me to read this book. Did it provide the answers? Well,...
Review: Supercommunicators: The Power of Conversation and the Hidden Language of Connection
I felt quite deceived by the title. I was expecting a book about communication, and in particular public speaking. Instead, this is a book about connection with people – how to be someone who...
Review: Good Energy
Did you know that a steady diet of KFC is not good for you? Who knew!?! Entering your 40’s is like entering a walk-in freezer in shorts and a t-shirt. At first it’s a...
Review: The Science of Storytelling
Did I read a book about storytelling, or did this book read me? This book was a wonderful surprise of a book, and about so much more than storytelling. It was, in many ways,...
Review: Sexuality in the New Testament: Understanding the Key Texts
There are countless books that seek to unpack the Bible’s teaching on sexuality. Many fall well short of what I would consider to be helpful. There are revisionist books which seek to radically depart...
Review: English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable
While David Mitchell’s Unruly remains on my ‘to read’ list, this one jumped ahead as my first real foray into English history. It was delightful and insightful. English history is full of interesting, uncomfortable, and,...
Review: Remember
Why is it that you can so easily forget where you parked the car? Or that you struggle to remember that last item your spouse asked you to pick up from the supermarket as...
Review: Finding Your Best Identity
While many ask the important question ‘Who am I?’, in this short book Bunt asks the question ‘How can you know who you are?’ He takes a look at three sources we can look...
Review: The Anxious Generation
Why has an entire generation grown up with such significant issues of anxiety, poor mental health, low social skills, and many other challenges that were seemingly absent only a generation or two ago? That’s...