Really long, three 10-hour days in a row at work (I’m not required to, nor did anybody ask me; it’s just when I feel I’m dragging in my speed of development, I’ll stick around longer to get it punched out.

So now, I’m looking forward to a sleep-in morning, and a chance to review the blogosphere more closely, and read a bit in the books I have in my pile to read

In Search of Paul (Crossan)
The Peacable Kingdom (Hauerwas — just got delivered yesterday)
A Generous Orthodoxy (McLaren) (I’m on p. 115)
The Politics of Jesus (Yoder) (Read First Chapter and Preface in the past couple of days)

Performing the Faith is set aside until I read the other Hauerwas book (it got very dense for me about half way through, and it also has a chapter on Yoder that looks like I would benefit from reading Yoder first. It was a bit of a disappointment that there was so little actual Bonhoeffer in it. I read something that hinted at that, but decided that Hauerwas’s subject of non-violence would make it bearable, but it got terribly bogged down in comparing this theologian with that one. A bit more of an academic approach than I had expected. Right now, I’m after some theological meat for our day, and for these times that call out for a Confessing Church.