Category: Books
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So, I just finished re-reading Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince in order to get geared up and ready for the final installment coming out in July, Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (For my friend, JLo, and those three or four other slackers…
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This is the last installment of the "nouwen on leadership & hope" posts. I have found it helpful to think through these paragraphs in daily chunks. I hope you have benefited from it as well. The only thing I want to point out today was that Christ was putting a LOT of hope in Hope. …
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"Every attempt to attach this hope to visible symptoms in our surroundings becomes a temptation when it prevents us from the realization that promises, not concrete successes, are the basis of Christian leadership. Many ministers, priests and Christian laymen have become disillusioned, bitter and even hostile when years of hard work bear no fruit, when…
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"Without this hope [of the promise] we will never be able to see value and meaning in the encounter with a decaying human being and become personally concerned. This hope stretches far beyond the limitations of one’s own psychological strength, for it is anchored not just in the soul of the individual but in God’s…
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From The Wounded Healer we are seeking to answer the question, "What is a Christian leader?": A Christian leader is a [hu]man of hope whose strength in the final analysis is based neither on self-confidence derived from his personality, nor on specific expectations for the future, but on a promise given to him. This promise…
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What does good leadership look like? I think we have all experienced or heard tales of poor leadership in our time. As I’ve lately been pondering the problem of evil/suffering in the world and the daunting reality of death, I really want to be grappling with these issues from a healthy Christian perspective. I want…
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Just finished the last book in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength. This book kind of felt like the series became a car crash with his other work, The Abolition of Man (which I enjoyed when I read it), a few volumes of Arthurian legend, a Boris Karloff movie (i.e. disembodied heads being re-animated)…
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Before I forget and move on to other books, I just wanted to say that I really, really enjoyed David James Duncan’s book of short stories entitled River Teeth. I knew I would enjoy it because Duncan’s novels, The River Why and The Brother’s K, are two of my all-time favorites, but I liked his…
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(Dean Koontz – The Taking) Terrifying, intriguing, thought-provoking, DISTURBING, suspenseful, downright scary (yet oddly hopeful) book! My flesh crawled quite a few times…
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I’ve been re-reading Brennan Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel again. Reading it this time I’ve decided I need to read this book every few years for my own spiritual health. It is such a good book to come back to because it reminds me of what grace is like. It reminds me that God loves me…just…
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