Monday, June 2nd, 2008
by Kerry & Chris Shook
This was a pretty solid book. It had a little bit of the trappings of pop-christianity, but at the root was a solid message: How would your priorities change if you knew that you had only 30 days to live?
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
by James Clavell
Pretty good book. It gets a little racy at times.
I read a brand new copy of this book that is also 28 years old. My roommate found it in his bookstore and it has been there since the publisher sent it to them in 1980.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
by C.S. Lewis
The greatness of Plato's Symposium is to the greatness of this book as the sphere of the Earth is to the sphere of the fixed stars.
The four loves are: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity (Storge, Philos, Eros, and Agape).
I especially connected with Lewis' redemption of Eros.
The sternest feminist ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
This is a pretty good book. It does a great job of "continuing" from where my St. John's liberal education left off into the 20th century. The author's style is well-suited for introducing extremely complicated ideas in the most copacetic way possible.
However, what the book ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
by John Bunyan
Excellent book. I especially like the second part and the aspect of community that it points out. The motley crew of pilgrims all traveling down the road to the King's Dominion is very encouraging and insightful.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
An Account Written by The Hand of Mormon Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun.
In comparison to the Koran, this book has much more narrative. When I was reading the Koran, I thought that narrative would make it easier to read. I was wrong. ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
by Plato
translated by Seth Benardete
This is a very important dialogue. Socrates inquires into the notion of "knowledge". It is very interesting what he allows and disallows.
He offers a delighful argument against the Pythagorean notion that "Man is the measure of all things"
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto
He keeps saying the same thing over and over again: In the Third World and in former Communist countries, the poor have accrued a huge amount of capital, but they are unable to access this capital in the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
reaching out without selling out
by Mark Driscoll
I had to resist quoting the entire book here. Mark points out a middle way between sectarianism and syncretism. This involves engaging the culture more than extreme fundamentalists are comfortable with, while also sticking to fundamental doctrines more openly than liberals want to.
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
a Defense of Human Life
by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen
A non-Theological defense of the position that from fertilization (either natural, In-vitro, or cloned) a human embryo deserves all the protection extended to adult humans.
After responding to arguments against this position, the authors call for:
1. legislation to protect human ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
by Plato
translated by Albert K. Whitaker
I just don't have the mental stamina to handle this sort of thing. I remember this part of my freshman year, and I wasn't helping out much in class...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
by Donald Miller
This is a great book. Once you get used to his style of prose, he starts really dropping some theology on you, but without you really noticing it... until it's too late :D
It's edgy without falling off the edge. Jesus is the center.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
by Guy Kawasaki
Good stuff on startups... Weird stuff on Theology.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Seeking God in a Culture of Wealth
by John Schneider
The author walks through the entire Bible building a case for the inherent moral neutrality of affluence, while pointing out the external circumstances that cause wealth to become evil or good.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
by Joshua Harris
I read part of this back when I bought it 7-ish years ago. If you get past the jargon-y parts it has some solid advice.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
translated by M.H. Shakir
I'm guessing this isn't the most artful of translations, but even accounting for that it was very difficult to read. There was very little narrative, and the list of Arabic names and English equivalents came up a little short. Since the Qur'an refers to other narratives quite ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
by Richard J Foster
Streams of Living Water identifies the "six great traditions of the Christian faith," Gives an historical, biblical, and contemporary example of a person who best exemplified each tradition, then points out the strengths and potential pitfalls of each tradition.
The traditions are: Contemplative, Holiness, Charismatic, Social Justice, Evangelical, ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Interesting book... probably most well-known for pointing out the correlation of Roe v. Wade and the drop in crime in the 1990's. The authors do not applaud the correlation as an intended consequence, but they do point it out.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
I just got a new bible: Journaling Bible.
It's pretty cool... It looks and feels like a molskine notebook down to the bookmark and elastic strap (no pocket in the back though), and has nearly two inches of ruled margin on each page.
Also, mine was mis-priced at the bookstore, so ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
by Sophocles
Translated by David Grene
Definitely my favorite of Sophocles' plays... Probably because of the lack of suicide.
It was similar to Oedipus at Colonus.
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