Nonfiction
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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Rereading Total Truth for the first time in about 10 years has been both a rich and a worrisome journey. Revisiting my review from 2008, I see that it didn’t do this astonishingly…
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Your Mind Matters
I reread this little gem by John Stott this week. Only 85 pages long, it was purchased for a philosophy class when I was in college. I remembered nothing, but it’s now one…
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Catching up with old friends
I’ve been reading around since my last post. Much of it is rereading. I reread A Wrinkle in Time, followed by A Wind in the Door. (They’re about to release a movie of…
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Republican Like Me
I am not a Republican. Nor am I a Democrat. I’m an Independent, recently minted. To me, that has meant “Cynically Disaffected with Both Major Parties, but More Conservative than Liberal about Government…
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Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be
I picked up this book in a Kindle Daily Deal a week or two ago. Subtitled An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, it looked engaging and relevant. Turns out it’s definitely engaging,…
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The Art of Loading Brush
The few reviews I’ve seen for this latest collection by Wendell Berry make reference to its repetition of his “usual themes.” But I felt a sadness as I read. A combination of essays,…
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Loading brush, and taking the measure
Andy is forced to question the worth of the advocacy that has so occupied him and his friends for so long. He knows that their advocacy has virtually no standing with professors, intellectuals,…
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iGen: Reaping what we sow
Since I didn’t know what iGen was, the subtitle is what attracted me: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood (and…
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Two Books Worth Reading
It’s been quite awhile since I posted anything here, but this morning I find myself with some free time at the creative, wakeful time of day. Usually, I’m working; I have an online…
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World Without Mind
This book is disturbing. All of us know that our privacy has eroded in the internet era. All of us know that self-driving cars are the wave of the future. All of us…