Some Reading...

My friend Bethany lent me Sex God by Rob Bell. I read the entire thing in a couple hours last night. (Although I plan to read it again more carefully.) I know Rob Bell is a bit of a craze right now, but he's not entirely a bad one. He's definitely got some good things to say. It's not really a book about sex as much as it is about spirituality, need, love and the complexity of dysfunction. Whatever it's about...I recommend it.

This got me thinking about Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, which is probably the best book on relationships that I've read. This is not to belittle Rob Bell's book. (It was a great book.) It's just that Cloud and Townsend are pretty intensely brilliant (in my mind at least) and the book is really fantastic. So that's the second recommendation today.

Now, just in case you think you have Boundaries in Dating completely figured out from the title, here's a bit of information. (I think you're probably wrong about it.) Of fourteen chapters only one talks about physical boundaries, and it doesn't even address anything specifically. Now are you curious? I hope so. Also, Cloud and Townsend, unlike some of their Christian-writing counterparts, wholeheartedly endorse dating. They go way beyond the common sense advice and a lot of it is pretty weighty, although not hard to read. Oh...and since it seems everyone is getting married these days, there is of course Boundaries in Marriage. "Marriage!?" you say. Yep.

Anyways...I like to think that summer is almost here, despite the fact that its unbearably cold today, so if you're looking for some summer reading. Now you know where to go.