THE CRANK:  Immanuel Velikovsky gave me a view of archaeology and the Old Testament that brought them both to life. Please note the dog-eared condition of these much used books.  Universally assailed as an academic heretic or worse, I nonetheless believe academia owes Velikovsky a vindication he will yet receive one day. 

THE CORE: This cluster occupies prime real estate in my bookshelves: Eye level, center section.  Its location serves as a fair clue to my priorities.

THE INCONGRUITY: Another dog-eared-from-much-use collection.  They fit together on my book shelf AND work well with each other in my thoughts and imagination.  Dante, Blake, Penn-Lewis, Larson and Calvin do play well together when given the chance.

THE FALLING APART:  Bindings split, covers gone, book tape rolling up at the edges, these books have been handled over-much.  Worst of the lot?  A recently retired Bible and my wife’s college Bible Dictionary.

THE APOLOGISTS:  Ravi Zacharias, Lee Strobel, Michael Behe, Robert Spencer and Paul Johnson challenge and clarify my understanding of Christianity.

THE OUTLIERS:  A graphic novel about WWI in french, “Longitude” and “The Panda’s Thumb” and . . . and . . . what’s that in the lower right corner?

THE SECULAR TEMPLATE:  If God’s Word serves as the template that ultimately orders my spiritual understandings,  Douglas Adams’ HHGG serves as its secular equivalent.  The BBC Radio Play by the same name has no equal on any number of levels.  For years, I thought I WAS Marvin the Depressed Robot.  HHGG taught our son to love books and hear the voices of their characters in his head.

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