Published on April 25, 2014, at huffingtonpost.com. My son Jeremy is reading Diane Ackerman‘s The Zookeeper’s Wife during his senior year of high school. I am reading the book alongside him, giving him a crash course in how to take good notes. (You guessed it: I am a college professor who loves questions, except for […]
Published on April 25, 2014, at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter. A review in the Wall Street Journal will tell you what I know: David Laskin’s The Family is a brilliant epic. It is a book that should be bought and begun this Monday, April 28th—Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Family tells the true story of how Laskin’s family of […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on February 14, 2014 I just wished a faculty colleague Happy Valentine’s Day and told him, as I put it, “I’m writing exams, but at least I’m doing it across the kitchen table from the woman I hold dear.” That made me think about living in the moment. About living into the moment. Yesterday, […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on January 6, 2014. A snippet of my latest book, Inspired: the Holy Spirit and the Mind of Faith, to whet your appetite for more. Priscilla and I bought our first house in a sketchy corner of Kansas City, about a mile or two from the seminary where I taught at the time. It was […]
Published at huffingtonpost.com/jack-levison on November 26, 2013 Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving next week, and have I got a book for you: David Laskin’sThe Family. Reviews in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal will tell you what I know: David Laskin’s The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century is a brilliant epic. The Family tells the true […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on September 11, 2013 I grew up 25 miles east of the World Trade Center, which we called the Twin Towers. My father didn’t much like them. He preferred the stately Empire State Building to their squarish contribution to the New York City skyline. My dad was born in Manhattan. He was four in […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on August 27, 2013 My son Jeremy and I golfed the other day at a nine hole, par three course. You can’t exactly call it golf. I scored 49 when par was 27. That’s a forgettable enough score. But what I didn’t forget is this. As we walked the course, I felt the slightest […]