Consider the Birds

I decided to read this book because I thought I would learn interesting things about birds and also get a different view of the Bible from it. It did do both of those things for me, but I didn't enjoy the reading as much as I expected because of the book's informal, chatty style.

Consider the beginning of this paragraph: “If you look at Jesus with the idea that looking at him will tell you what God is like, God isn't about showing us how great God is. God's thing isn't power. Like, really isn't, not just like it could be but isn't” (p. 186). This is the way the book is written, and the style really detracts from the interesting things the author has to say about birds and the way birds are used to tell us about God, Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven.

In short, this book could have been great, but it needed a very firm editor, which it didn't get. It's a disappointment.