{"id":34387,"date":"2022-09-10T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-year-in-books\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:26:33","slug":"the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The January-February issue of <em>Preaching <\/em>magazine has a major focus on the best books published during the past year, and we are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 27, 2004, issue of <em>World <\/em>magazine reports, &#8220;The top 10 sellers for the year 2003 at Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores give a snapshot of the culture. The biggest seller was <em>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix<\/em> by J.K. Rowling. After the occult fantasy for kids was an occult fantasy for adults, <em>The DaVinci Code<\/em>, which presumes to construct a new Jesus who would be more in accord with contemporary tastes than the Christ of the Bible. (No, Jesus did not marry Mary Magdelene. He already has a bride. She is called the church.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three of the top 10 are diet books (Nos. 3, 4 and 10), all of which can be summed up in one sentence: Carbohydrates make you fat. There are three Oprah Book Club-type books, which commendably try to bridge the gap between seriousness and popularity: <em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em> by Sue Monk Kidd (No. 5), <em>The Lovely Bones<\/em> by Alice Sebold (No. 9) and an excellent book about a horse, <em>Seabiscuit <\/em>by Laura Hillenbrand (No. 6).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the success of a number of conservative authors, they were beat out by Hillary Clinton, whose <em>Living History<\/em> came in at No. 8. An explicitly Christian title did make the top 10: <em>The Purpose Driven Life<\/em> by Rick Warren (No. 7).&#8221; (Click here to read the entire article.)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/the-year-in-books\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January-February issue of Preaching magazine has a major focus on the best books published during the past year, and we are not alone. The Dec. 27, 2004, issue of World magazine reports, &#8220;The top 10 sellers for the year 2003 at Barnes &amp; Noble bookstores give a snapshot of the culture. The biggest seller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-year-in-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Year in Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}