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Weekend Reading
I’ve been out of the habit of sharing my weekly list of favorite online finds. I plan to reinstate this practice on Friday mornings under the “Weekend Reading” heading, sharing a handful of links that you can explore over the weekend. I’ll do my best to limit these short lists to items not too heavily…
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The Beck Effect Proven
The editors at Out of Ur just posted “The Top 10 of ’10,” the ten most commented on posts of the past year. It was funny to see my article, “Glenn Beck Is Not the Enemy,” in the number four spot. You might remember that earlier this year my friend Bob predicted that anything with…
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5 books that changed me in 2010
Like past years’ lists (2007, 2008, 2009), I’ll keep this short and sweet with no attempt to rank my short list. Of the books I read in 2010, these are the five I’d most quickly recommend. ——————– The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today Here’s one of…
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The View From Here
On Wednesday afternoons Maggie teachings cooking classes for Common Threads so Eliot and I spend some good hours together. Yesterday we enjoyed the perfect fall weather by chasing each other around Promontory Point laughing and yelling, “I got you!”
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InterVarsity Retreat
On Saturday I spent all day at a camp (whose name I can’t remember) in Michigan for the University of Chicago’s InterVarsity retreat. It was a long day- early departure, midnight return, three teachings, praying for students- but well worth it. It was good to spend the day with 50-60 undergraduates along with their fantastic…
David W. Swanson 