One Year Later

I thought it appropriate to use my first real blog post in forever to reflect on my achieving one year in Manila. Today, actually, is day #365 of my life in the Philippines. I arrived just after 9:00 in the morning June 17, 2008. It's been a fun year, and many more exciting things are to come. Turns out that I don't have anything much more profound to say than that.

Reading List: May 2009

I feel a little bad that my posting has dried up. Maybe I can rectify that in the near future, but most of my writing juices these days are sapped with the preparation of the two books to be released later this year. Anyway, here's what I read in May:

1. James L. Crenshaw, Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction
2. James L. Kugel, The Great Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations
3. Thomas W. Overholt, Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity
4. Brett W. Hawkins, Nashville Metro: The Politics of City-County Consolidation
5. A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

6. Harvey H. Guthrie, Israel’s Sacred Songs: A Study of Dominant Themes

7. George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

8. Harald Lindström, Wesley and Sanctification (54 of 218 pages)