Category: Books
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I didn’t think it was possible, but I have a new favorite by Donald Miller… A Million Miles In A Thousand Years Read it in a little over a week. Parts of it resonated so strongly with me I had to physically put the book down for a few minutes and take a deep breath.…
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At our best, Americans, are intensely awake to the contradictions we live and [are] redemptively troubled by them. Norman Mailer has suggested that to be a mainstream American is to live the life of a walking oxymoron, to be a heart in conflict with itself, with a psyche featuring Evel Knievel on one shoulder and…
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Kathleen Norris’ creative non-fiction novel, The Cloister Walk, is turning out to be a marathon read for me. I’ve been at it for months; not because it’s a grueling long-distance calorie burner, but because it’s so packed full of ideas to reflect upon it would be a great disservice to read it quick. I typically…
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Over the years I’ve thought a lot about the saying, “It’s not about what you do but about who you are becoming…” I think I still hold to this view, but at times the two seem so interrelated it’s difficult to sift out one’s actions from one’s character / motives. A decision to do something,…
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In light of some of the things that have been going on with me the past couple months (years really), a friend recently recommended this book to me: Wow. It’s that massive elephant-on-the-couch question that has defined my generation, and by default me, more than any other. I’ve only read the first five or six…
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This book was amazing. I love the imaginative vision mixed with the cultural and historical research that Rice employs in order to bring the childhood Jesus to life. I engaged with this book more than I did with The Shack (another recent read), but that’s probably because Anne Rice is a writer’s writer and she…
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This little John Eldredge video (from Walking With God) talks about having God vs. having understanding (the quote I posted two days ago.) I like the idea of shepherding our hearts. It's necessary to do so I think: * John Eldredge gets pretty crazy with his hands in these videos. He's be a good…
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Started reading this N.T. Wright book, Surprised By Hope. He is such a clear thinker and obviously knows a lot about the early Church. I won't go into a lot of detail about what the book is about, but I like how Wright tends to artfully dismantle some of the faulty ways many (myself included)…
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This is an amazing book… It is a book I am sure I will re-read soon, but much more slowly. Some of the expressions and depictions of Christian spirituality contained in these pages touched me more than probably 80 or 90 percent of the books I’ve read from the "Christian Living" section of most Christian…
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