Category: Books
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A few weeks ago I posted about Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point. In that book, Gladwell was posing the argument that social epidemics (of all varieties) can usually be attributed to small, gradual changes or innovations in situations that are enacted within a specific context by a unique set of individuals / groups. A…
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I blitzed my way through Donald Miller’s latest work of genius To Own a Dragon. This is not going to be a book review (since I’ve already applauded Mr. Miller’s writing on many occasions). Instead I just wanted to throw a few of my favorite quotables out there. I liked these passages on his take…
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"There’s always a story," she said. "It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world." Terry PratchettA Hat Full of Sky Being sick has a tendency to make me even more introspective than normal (which is saying something.) I…
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Contrary to appearances, this post is not another shameless plug for my recently published book, Titan’s Tale. But I did want to make a few "editorial" comments (before archiving the topic…) #1 – Now that I have seen the "finished product" I must say that there is nothing that feels more like vanity than perusing…
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33 years ago today, J.R.R. Tolkien set sail for the gray havens… It’s strange that I was only a few months from being born in September of 1973. Our paths on this planet barely crossed and yet I feel like he was my third grandfather. I’ve spent a lot of time inside Tolkien’s head over…
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"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches." from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God My friend Jason sent me a box of books a few months ago. Some good, good books. You’ve probably…
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I don’t make book recommendations very often…(OK, I make them all the time) but this one is a definite must-read. I just finished Shane Claiborne’s Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical and it really left a profound impression upon my soul. I don’t want to build it up too much, but this book made…
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Do you ever get the sense that God is trying to tell you something? Perhaps there is a common theme in the stories you are hearing or the books you are reading. Perhaps you can see your life moving in a certain direction and you suddenly take notice. Perhaps in quiet moments your thoughts revolve…
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Hi folks. Sorry for the short interruption. We just got back to Xining today. Hallelujah! I was reunited with my ladies (Christa, Anna, Sarah) and the in-laws in Beijing. We saw many of the sights and then hopped a plane to Xian where we saw more sights. (More news on that at 11…) Warning: Self-promotion…
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I read H.G. Wells The Time Machine this afternoon. Short little book, but thought-provoking. I somehow missed it even though I read many of the classics growing up. The book triggered a question for me about what it would be like to look into the future. So let’s say you had a time machine at…
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