I finished the book with a feeling I expect Taylor intended. I’m more vigilant now watching or reading news, knowing that every story is told from a particular viewpoint to effect a specific reaction.
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Book Review Silence, by Shusaku Endo Picador Modern Classics A Travelogue Hailed a modern classic, the novel is philosophical and long and slow. Reading it, I can’t help but think of Jesus, carrying His cross, heavy, toward Golgotha, faltering with each step and resting between. Writers who claim that character, plot, and structure are all
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I’m just throwing this out because I’ve got a few minutes. I recently sat through the Chris Williamson podcast where he talks with Lionel Page, professor of economics at The University of Queensland in Australia. They toss this question back and forth: How humans deceive themselves and others. Commit to being a little smarter and
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Two million copies! Celebration of Discipline has taken up lonely space on my bookshelves for some twenty-five years now, proving my lack of discipline. Or at least my skill in building a world-class to-be-read library. But I came across the special anniversary edition, published in 2018, and had to have it. After all, the world
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Way back when America was great and I heated my home with a wood-fired stove, I attended a First Baptist Church in the middle of town. This was in the South, of course, and was of the Southern Baptist ilk, steeple and all. It was a first for me, but my wife was Baptist through
A business that does good? ASTOUNDING! I was in the Upstate last week for a swimming competition, and between events, my wife and I roamed the downtown looking to nosh. Instead, we found a lovely bookstore inside a regal stone building. It was like a temple – as all bookstores should be – and we
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