Posted in Reviews on Jul 9th, 2008
I am a fan of Annie Dillard. I read her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek like some people eat dessert, thoroughly enjoying myself. And I laughed my way through her An American Childhood, brooded with her in Teaching a Stone to Talk, and learned from her in The Writing Life. So when her latest book, The Maytrees: A [...]
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You’ve probably read the “why did the chicken cross the road” jokes as written by famous people.
Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Bob Dylan:
How many roads must one chicken cross?
Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
And…
Ernest Hemingway:
In the rain. To die.
Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed is posting about “The [...]
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“Time is eternity in disguise.” This sentence sent me soaring into the wonder of life as God’s gift to us. Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath is simple, yet profound. With a deep reverence for God and Torah, and with a quest for true spirituality, Heschel leads the reader into the sacredness of time (versus things). The first [...]
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Posted in Reviews on Apr 5th, 2008
The Rolling Stones
Martin Scorsese’s “Shine a Light,” an IMAX film celebrating The Rolling Stones is absolutely phenomenal! Julie and I had a great time and came away saying that it was better than being at a live concert. With flashbacks to the Stones’ beginnings and concerts and interviews through the years, the film is a [...]
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At the National Pastors Convention, N.T. Wright made mention in passing the book Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul. I had only read two books by Ellul—The Subversion of Christianity and The Humiliation of the Word. And I benefited from both.
We live in an increasingly violent world and I have been conditioned by a [...]
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Ellen Page
Julie and I recently saw the movie Juno. It’s about a 16 year old girl, Juno MacGuff, played by Ellen Page, who gets pregnant by her highschool boyfriend, Paulie Bleeker, played by Michael Cera. The film, directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, is a humorous, witty, poignant story of teen [...]
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