Last week was kind of a bad week for me for reading. I didn’t work in all of the readings that I wanted to and now I’m behind.
Still, here’s what I’m working on this week:

CH 8455 ~ Still doing Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power by [...]

Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical by Hannah Faith Notess (editor)
[September 2009; reviewed 12-29-2009]
Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical. The title made me think that the authors intended to spend most of their pages complaining about the treatment of women in evangelical Christianity, a “Festivus: Airing of [...]

Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints by Carol Avery Forseth
[January 2002; reviewed 02-21-2009]
(Note: We will probably be posting this one at Tekton. I’ll remove the main text of the review and link to it accordingly when we do.)
There is no question that any person who attends Brigham Young University as a non-Mormon receives an [...]

The God Makers by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt
[November 1997; reviewed 12-27-1999]
(Note: I was 17 when I wrote this review for Tekton, under just my initials “J.J.” for Jack Jeffries. I’m surprisingly still pretty satisfied with this review today. The final line originally read, “… kindling for the fire in case the lights go out [...]

Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them by Liz Curtis Higgs
[August 1999; reviewed 08-28-2000]
(Note: I was 18 when I wrote this review for Tekton, under just my initials “J.J.” for Jack Jeffries. I cringe just a little bit reading it, knowing I could write a much better review now. Nevertheless, [...]

In the next few minutes I’m adding a “Book Reviews” link to sidebar under “Features” and doing two posts on the reviews I did for Tekton years ago.  I should be posting new reviews in the next week, some of which will be hosted at Tekton. Just an FYI.