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May 19, 2009
February 7, 2009
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November 17, 2008
November 11, 2008
I was skeptical at first, but so far Clayborne Carson's editing reads very convincingly as MLK's voice.
October 22, 2008
Matt added Peace Like a River to his library.
October 13, 2008
Matt added The Zombie Survival Guide to his library.
I’m not a huge fan of parenting books. Books are neat and organized. In my experience, family life is not – at all. Occasionally I pick one up because it comes recommended by someone I trust. My wife recommended Hearts and Minds by Kenneth Boa and John Alan Turner. I decided to at least scan it. My scan slowed to an attentive read as I began to see this book was not really about how to get my kids to be neat and well-behaved, but rather about following Jesus as a messy, sinful parent.
I downshifted to underlining and note-taking at the middle of page 30 when I read this:
When we are insecure in our identity as children of God, we waste time and energy trying to manage other people’s impressions of us. We spin things and manipulate the truth -ultimately at our own expense- because we so ...
Matt added Hearts and Minds to his library.
Matt added Web Form Design to his library.
Matt added No Other Life to his library.
A funeral director/poet, Lynch puts forth a wonderously unique perspective on life. As a recovering alcoholic and a recovering catholic, his stories are dolloped with a peculiar irreverance. The following is an exceprt from a short essay with a long title, Notes on "A Note on the Rapture to his True Love." It's an essay on a little writing exercise he developed, the only publishable fruit of which was the aforementioned poem.
As for the TV - we'd only just lately gotten cable in Milford, and I was up nights channel-surfing between infomercials and religious broadcasting, especially Jim and Tammy Bakker, Before the Fall, we might say. I never sent money or touched the TV screen for healing, but to say I was transfixed by the sermons would be an understatement. A word Jim Bakker used over and over was a word I loved but did not understand ...
