Ruth Alkema has contributed this book review – highly recommended reading! Simply good news By N.T. Wright I read this book with a bible study group in the Jeruzalemkerk. Even though most of us found the writing style really tedious, lots of repetitions, we still had a very lively discussion afterwards. He writes by giving loads of examples, all explaining another aspect of his point, but it is difficult to detect what the point is.…
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Ruth Alkema has contributed this book review – highly recommended reading! The Power and the Glory By Graham Greene In a poor, steamy and barren Mexican state, the Red Shirts have gained control, outlawed God, and murdered priests. But one still lives, the whisky priest, who has an illegitimate daughter and believes he has lost his soul. Now he is on the move, trying to escape his executioners. As he tramps anonymously through the glowing white…
Ruth Alkema has contributed this book review – highly recommended reading! Confessions By Saint Augustine Wow! What a wonderful book was this! I am so glad that I read it! Everything that I had heard about Augustine was proven false. I really love this man, he is so open and sensitive and honest, and very intelligent and broad minded! For a long time I had wanted to read this book, but not really felt up…