Category: Books
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I’m up late tonight. If I have one addiction (and my wife can tick off six more without even blinking) it’s staying up into the wee hours every night… Benjamin Franklin is often quoted as saying, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise…" Mine would go something more like this: …
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It’s a bit too simplistic to say that I love to read. Reading is not a hobby for me; it is a way of life. Since learning to read as a child I can think of no period of life since when I have not been reading a book. When one book is finished a…
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I just finished The Gospel in a Pluralist Society which I have been quoting so often lately. I have to say I was really blown away by the book. It’s too bad that Newbigin has such a scholarly approach to writing because I think more people could benefit from his writing and the way he…
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"You tell me I am not an original person. Observe, dear prince, that nothing offends a man of our day and our race more than to tell him that he is not an original person, that he is weak-willed, has no particular talents and is an ordinary person. You haven’t even given me credit for…
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I just finished a chapter in Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society entitled, The Logic of "M" (you’ll have to fill in the blank). In light of my post below, "are we having fun yet?" I think Newbigin’s position and statements regarding what we are all (as believers) called to is pretty insightful.…
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I really could relate to this story that Erwin McManus shares in his book The Barbarian Way. You have to ask yourself if the the way you live out your faith is perhaps a bit too civilized…and not crazy enough: I used to serve on the Board of Intercultural Studies at Biola University, mostly because…
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I just got a box from my college buddy Jason. Inside this bles-sed parcel was 9 books and 16 or 18 some-odd CDs. New reads, new tunes. Oh, yeah! I very much appreciate the goods, man. Very much. Christa has already started reading the Krakauer novel, Into the Wild. I am really intrigued by the…
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Here’s a passage that I liked from Newbigin. I replaced that pesky "m-word" with "long-term tour-guide." Hope you figure out what he’s talking about: Traditions of rationality are embodied in languages. A rival tradition cannot become a serious threat to the adherents of an existing tradition unless these latter are able to learn the language…
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If you enjoy Brian McLaren’s works (e.g. A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, etc.) I would like to recommend a book by one of the thinkers who seems to have greatly influenced his works. His name is Lesslie Newbigin and he was a fellow "tour-guide" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) in India for forty years or…
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I just finished the book Eldest by the young writer Christopher Paolini. This is the second book in his Inheritance Trilogy–the first being Eragon. At face value, I found the book to be very entertaining and easy to read–a page turner if you will. It’s not what I would consider especially ground breaking or drastically…
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