On the occasion of a return visit to the country of my birth, some books about Guatemala.

Why we hold onto physical books when there are easier ways to read.

My review of Free to Serve by Stanley Carlson-Thies and Stephen Monsma.

20 words from a cartoonist’s memoir.

C.S. Lewis on love and vulnerability.

A book about baseball by two self-identified “statheads.”

Eugene Peterson on the limits of anger.

My review of The News by Alain de Botton.

My review of Jeremy Beer’s The Philanthropic Revolution.

Why do people hate poetry so much?

Alain de Botton on work that makes a difference.

My review of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre.

My review of Jonathan Tepperman’s The Fix.

Per tradition, my favorites of the year.

Brief thoughts on “a peoples’ history” of the often pitiable Seattle Mariners.

Andrés Neuman on the importance of good goodbyes.

Rowan Williams on the Reformation’s view of the Bible.

26 words on a disappointing book by a singer-songwriter I truly admire.

Andrew Sullivan on the spiritual yearnings of digital natives.

A few words on Grady Gammage, Jr.’s book about the future of Phoenix.