Reading
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My goal for reading this year is to read slllllooooowwwwweeeerr… and repeat some books. Repeating books: check. Slower: ummmm. The one book I have read multiple times… okay… a second book I have read multiple times is Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography of Thomas Merton. This is my first read of the year. This book is very easy… Read more
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I am a voracious reader. I haven’t been as quick to read a LOT of things recently, but I do love reading. What I am horrible at is getting back INTO books that are significant and worth studying. And I’m REALLY bad about reading fiction… even once. I was meditating on this earlier in the… Read more
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The time in which we live gives us far more accessibility to truly great writing. It also gives us access to truly bad writing as well. Yesterday I was reflecting on life in the 1800s in the United States and thinking of how few books there were. Abraham Lincoln had limited access to books growing… Read more
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“The parables, in fact, are told as kingdom explanations for Jesus’s kingdom actions. They are saying: ‘Don’t be surprised, but this is what it looks like when God’s in charge.’ They are not ‘abstract teaching,’ and indeed if we approach them like that, we won’t understand them at all.” — N T Wright, Simply Jesus Read more
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N T Wright’s book Simply Jesus is filling my imagination right now. Surprised by Hope was a book that jarred me awake to the realities of the Kingdom of God in the present, and I still need to re-read that one! Wright continues to bring out what I feel about myself and about our culture… Read more
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I know Grisham’s book has been out a month or more, but I finally got around to reading it. In many ways I feel like Grisham has his groove back. For several years he really didn’t have his stuff. I think he was cranking too many out and needed a break. The Racketeer is good… Read more
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“Missional” has been a buzz word for so many years it’s become a bit of a buzz kill. In some respects, the use of the word seems to me to be another way to create a conference and a nice roster of speakers. But there are leaders doing “missional” work and seeing what the Spirit… Read more
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I need to copyright this post, because someone can really take off with this idea. So, here goes: The plot of a novel: A novelist is working on a plot where a programmer who works IT for a major company plays around with encryption and algorithms. He stumbles onto an algorithm that could possibly crash… Read more
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Yesterday a friend set up my Nook to be an android tablet. He has been overcome with power and is now hacking anything he can get his hands on. (You should see a hacked toaster. It makes great waffles now.) But as to the Nook reader, I like the app better! The page turn function… Read more
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