From the reading chair: Concerning The True Care of Souls by Martin Bucer [the appearance of this volume – the first ever translation in English! – is a momentous landmark]; People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology by Wolfgang Vondey; Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words by Stanley Hauerwas; Words for Silence: A Year of Contemplative Meditations by Gregory Fruehwirth; On Religion: The Revelation of God As the Sublimation of Religion by Karl Barth; Thinking about Christ with Schleiermacher by Catherine L. Kelsey.

Through the iPod: Keepers, Workbench Songs, and Somedays The Song Writes You by Guy Clark; Going Somewhere by Colin Hay; Arrogance Ignorance and Greed by Show of Hands; Too Long in the Wasteland by James McMurtry; Cimarron Manifesto by Jimmy LaFavel; Live and No Deeper Blue by Townes Van Zandt; American VI: Aint No Grave by Johnny Cash. Did I mention Somedays The Song Writes You by Guy Clark? Absolutely brilliant!!!!

On the screen: Two Weeks [2007]; Dead Man Walking [1995].