Danielle's Reviews > Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

This is a very well-written defense of the role of desire and "want" in our lives as Christians. Pollock Michel is sharp and insightful, and I thought she laid a robust theological foundation for her argument. My complaints are minor and two-fold: 1) she includes WAY too many quotes from other people. As someone who loves quotes with near-religious fervor and would love to share all my quotes with everyone, I get it-- but the amount of quoting she did even got on MY nerves. At some point your reader can start to question if you're offering up original thought or just synthesizing everyone else's. 2) I think she gets distracted and discursive at times with topics that are a little tangential to the topic at hand (e.g. I think she spent an unnecessarily long time talking about the importance of being part of a local church.) Those 2 things aside, I did think this book was excellent and thought-provoking.