Category: book
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Watch for the Light
I was pleased to see my favorite book of Advent readings, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, on Christianity Today’s recent “Top 5 Books on Advent.” There are plenty of reasons to incorporate this book into your other Advent traditions. First, the book is a collection of writings, organized by days, by…
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our 2009 favorites
A couple of weeks ago I asked about your favorite books/films/ and albums of 2009. Here are your suggestions: Books Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof. Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang. Forgotten God by Francis Chan. Films Up. The Blind Side. Where the Wild Things Are. Albums It’s All Crazy!…
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deadly viper character assassins [updated]
I prefer to stay away from the arguments that so often characterize blog-world; don’t we get enough of that in real life? However, on occasion there are disagreements of substance worth pointing out, ones that have the capacity to teach. Yesterday Dr Soong-Chan Rah (whose book and blog I’ve recommended before) wrote about a new…
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what is your personal food policy?
I really enjoyed The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan when I read it last year and now Maggie is reading that very enlightening and entirely entertaining book. A couple of days ago I saw that Pollan had solicited people’s food rules, or “personal food policies.” Pollan’s request, made via the New York Times, stems from…
David W. Swanson 