Westminster Bookshop is running a pretty drastic sale-of-the-week to make up for a lag in business. This week focuses on Reformed books. Check it out here WTSBOOKS Sale of the Week
New Tolkien Novel
The Children of Hurin has been completed by Tolkien’s son Christopher from a series of unfinished manuscripts. Christopher writes: “After a long study of the manuscripts, I tried to build a coherent narrative without editorial invention.”
Gunton on God as Spirit
“That God is spirit, generally, does not mean simply that he is not material but that he is able to encompass both what we call spirit and what we call matter. To have spirit is to be open to the other – God, the human other and the world; to be spirit, as God is, is to be able to cross the boundary between creator and creature, even to the extent of God the Son’s becoming identical with Jesus of Nazareth by the power of the Spirit.”
[1] Colin Gunton, Act & Being: Towards A Theology of Divine Attributes (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003), 115.
Shooting at Virginia Tech
At least 20 people have been shot to death at Virginia Tech University. Apparently there were two gunman, shooting from two different buildings. See the WP article and pray for justice and redemption as you read. Here is a timeline of U.S. school shootings. Is it just popluation density that attracts these gunmen to schools?
Consider reading Evil and the Justice of God.