Best books: Giorgio Locatelli, Made in Italy: Food and Stories. New York: Ecco, 2007 (this one is easily among my favourite books of the year); Marcia JoAnn Bunge, ed. The Child in Christian Thought. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001; David H. Jensen, Graced Vulnerability: A Theology of Childhood. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005; and Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
Best music: Malcolm Gordon, One Voice; and U2, The Golden Unplugged Album
Best films: Death Sentence (2007)
Best drink: Villa Maria Private Bin Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon (2006)
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Death Sentence your fave film of the year? I haven’t seen it, but do tell!
Also, I love this post. From the looks of it, I need to check out that cookbook & the theology of childhood. Well, & the merlot/cab blend too, if I can find it. :-)
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Hi Jason,
I have the The Child in Christian Thought collection myself. I particularly like Judith Gundry-Volf’s essay.
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Will. Death Sentence is not a contender for my film of the year, but I am on a Kevin Bacon fix at the moment (as I come off my Al Pacino fix) and this flick was particularly thought provoking. See it and then we’ll chat about it.
Paul. Gundry-Volf’s essay is one of a number that I especially enjoyed. BTW, you may like to check out Volf’s essay, ‘”To Such as These Belongs the Reign of God”: Jesus and Children’ in Theology Today 56, no. 4 (2000): 469–80.
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