Generous Justice, Tim Keller
I just started this book. It's a great complement to what we learned about grace, adoption, and social justice at our Church's outreach conference. It's short but packed full. I especially like how he wrote it in part for my generation - who volunteer more than any other, are committed to social causes, yet do so at no personal sacrifice. He challenges that a fundamental view of the doctrine of grace with drive and motivate our commiment to social justice and that the greatest joy will come from sacrificial giving.
Outcasts United, Warren St. John
This was my book club book for February. I have yet to finish it, but intend to. It tells the story of refugee families from Somolia, Liberia, Suda, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries who are relocated to a small Southern town outside of Atlanta, and the role sports (in this case socceer) plays in one women's desire to unit the team of boys and the community.
Robert has been reading several books lately - Amusing Ourselves to Death and When Helping Hurts. The first deals with our obsession with entertainment and the second with better ways to truly help those in need (as a deacon he assists with benevolence cases that come to our church). Lately though, he's been reading lots of test prep materials and study books for the PE (professional engineer) licensing test he's taking in April.
