Living Biblically
January 15, 2008
I'm stuck in Orlando. Someone has to be here. I'm teaching for RTS, but "stuck" in the sense that I have to spend the obligatory nights alone in a hotel (which when you're inside, could be almost anywhere in the western world). To amuse myself, I've picked up the latest book by A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically. It's probably going to turn out very irreverent. Bishop Spong has given it the thumbs up so it's not promising to be a "good read" in any sense that I will want boast about. But so far it is both very moving and very funny! He begins by telling us that he went to a large Christian Bookstore in Manhattan....