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Just finished a Home of the Brave quilt. If you have never heard of them, visit http://www.quiltersmuse.com/donald_beld_interview_June_2006.htm and learn about Don, the originator of the project, and his quilting. The top I just finished is at the quilter's, so when it comes back I'll post a photo.
With that said, I'm now reading An Introduction to the History of Christianity - from the Early Church to the Enlightenment by George Herring. I'm not far into it, but already I am taken by his approach - he is exploring how Christianity has shaped and been shaped in its turn by the secular world. I've read several histories of the Christian religion in trying to get a handle on how it grew and what happened at the beginning after Christ. One was from a historian's perspective and that really created a lot of questions, but made it more real because he tied in so many things mentioned in the Bible with actual events from that period. Then I read three by Edward Bauman: An Introduction to the Old Testament (2 vols) and An Introduction to the New Testament. I highly recommend those to anyone who wants to know the "heart of the matter" without all the scholarly facts that some writers populate their books with on a topic. It's like they can't help themselves and they want to tell you all the information and their opinion, and the main idea gets lost. Mr. Herring's book is like Mr. Bauman's. So far he hasn't covered Christianity in complete detail, but does cover events in chronological order. I look forward to reading more.
Some other books I have read and up for new readers can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/yw88a9
May the Lord be with you, today and always.
