Category: book
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rednoW’s top 10 lists
You can’t look anywhere this time of year without stumbling onto a “Top-10” or “Best of 2007” list. I could point towards a number of different lists that I’ve enjoyed looking at the past couple of weeks, but since I do some writing for rednoW.com, I’ll point out a few of the lists we’ve pulled…
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5 favorite books of 2007
Given the abundance of top-whatever lists this time of year, it seemed right to point out 5 of my favorite books of the year. It was kind of hard to choose 5, but here they are… ——————– UnChristian Sometimes it’s easy for Christians to forget that we have a reputation with outsiders. After extensive research…
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a few things i’m glad about…
Tonya’s peppermint bark. She left it on our front step last night. Maggie may have squealed with delight when we discovered it. Bob’s tamales. Every year Bob goes to his secret source for the best tamales in the world… somewhere on the west side of Chicago. And every year he gives us a big bag…
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a quote from leslie newbign
In light of everyone’s generosity lately, this quote from Leslie Newbigin seemed appropriate to share when I read it on Wednesday. Jesus is both totally compassionate and totally uncompromising about what is involved in coming to the fullness of life. There can be no compromise with false ideas about what it is that makes for…
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another insightful comment
A couple of weeks ago I posted a quote from unChristian. My friend Mike left a super insightful comment that I am posting here so that more folks can see it. I just picked up this book last night and am 3 chapters in. As I read the comments/data in these chapters, it made me…
David W. Swanson 