Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

On this episode, I'm going to talk to you about my Christmas wish list.

It's not actually my Christmas wish list because all of these things on my list I already have. I'm just offering them as suggestions to you,

and they are some of my best friends, and they are books. So we love the number five, of course.

So let's start with five books from literature. And the first one is Mary Shelley Frankenstein. I love Frankenstein. There is a church history connection, the very first one is Mary Shelley Frankenstein.

I love Frankenstein.

There is a church history connection.

The very first line of this wonderful novel is,

I am by birth a Genovese.

So there we have it, Calvin's Geneva.

And Dr. Frankenstein and his monster and that wonderful book by Mary Shelley.

Next up, it's my favorite novel. It's probably my favorite novel because it's not very long.

And it's Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

It's right up there with Moby Dick as a classic sea and Man Against Nature book,

but it's a lot shorter. So Hemingway is the old man in the sea. Let's stick with the sea theme

for a moment and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. And recently, I've actually listened to it on audiobooks, and that was fun too. Well,

we've got to include The Bard, and so we have Shakespeare's Hamlet, probably my favorite

Shakespeare, and so Hamlet. And then last, on my list of literature is a poet, and it is George Herbert.

And I have an edition that I absolutely love.

It's in the Every Man's Library Pocket Poets, and it's just simply titled Herbert Poems.

So there are some books of literature that you might want to consider for your

Christmas list or someone else's. Let's turn now to five books on church history. And so

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