March book report

No rhyme nor reason, but definitely diverse

Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life (Tyndale House Publishers February 21, 2023)

I love it when a memoir is read by the person who loves it. The emotions are palpable and there’s no misinterpreting the intent.

Moore’s experience with the SBC is more public than most, but it is a common one. No church or denomination is perfect, but the SBC over the last decades has tried to hide its imperfections behind a cloak of secrecy and “thus saith the Lord” when the Lord hath not sayers so. It breaks my heart to see it continue in spite of the developments since 2021.

Jesus is beyond and above all denominations. Moore’s life and testimony illustrate the Lordship of Jesus above all. I am grateful she chose to share her story.

G.K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown (Audible, 2023. Originally published 1927)

Who doesn’t love an accidental detective? Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, and even Sherlock Holmes solved cases that stymied official investigators. Father Brown, an affable, slightly overweight priest has the observation skills of Sherlock Holmes mixed with the clergyman’s understanding of human nature. The stories are short, witty, and often mixed with sadness as Father Brown solves the cases by thinking the way the criminal might, saying, ‘ “It is true,” he resumed, after a momentary pause, “that somebody else had played the part of the murderer before me and done me out of the actual experience. I was a sort of…