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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Diana and I went to see Narnia last night. Fun movie, fitting for the season of life in which we find our ministry. Aslan’s on the move, and the ice is beginning to thaw! One question I’ve always wondered about the book, and now the movie: Why a wardrobe? The lion, the witch, the sacrifice [...]
Freakonomics’ Answer to Question of the Week
Saturday, November 12th, 2005Despite the lukewarm response to last week’s Question of the Week, for the three of you who cared, here’s Freakonomics take on it. Q: If drugs dealers make so much money, why do they live with their mothers? A: Except for the 2-5% of dealers at the top of the drug trade, drug dealers don’t [...]
Evangelistic Brilliance
Thursday, October 20th, 2005The people next to me must have thought I was crazy. Don Miller’s side-splitting humor had me in hysterical fits on the subway last night. In Blue Like Jazz, he writes of one of the most brilliant evangelistic efforts I’ve ever heard. When I read the passage to Diana, she loved the story but didn’t [...]
On Christ’s love for us
Monday, October 17th, 2005“We dream of Christ’s love for His bride reading like Romeo and Juliet; two equals united in liberal love. I think it is more like Lucentio’s pursuit of Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. That is, the groom endearing the belligerent bride with kindness, patience, and love.“Our ‘behavior’ will not be changed long with [...]
I love it when …
Saturday, September 24th, 2005Authors do what they say they’re going to do, and they do it well. Malcolm Gladwell delivers. I read Tipping Point several months ago and finished Blink this week. Tipping Point explores the dynamics of how some ideas become movements that penetrate cultures and transform societies, while Blink examines how individuals make decisions, and how [...]
Finished Blink
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005Now reading Divided by Faith.
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Monday, September 12th, 2005“The Revolution will not be Televised,” by Joe Trippi, campaign manager for the Dean for America campaign. While its politics are suspect, the book delivers on its promise to “show how power, in the hands of all of us, changes everything.” “This is the story of how Trippi’s revolutionary use of the Internet and an [...]
The last word on a great leader
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“He was not a brilliant strategist or tactician, not a gifted orator, not an intellectual. At several crucial moments he had shown marked indecision. He had made serious mistakes in judgment. But experience had been his greatest teacher from boyhood, and in this his greatest test, he learned steadily from experience. Above all, [George] Washington [...]
After punishing defeats, they took it to the enemy
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation, … was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, [...]
These are the times that try men’s souls
Thursday, August 11th, 2005I’ve been reading 1776 this summer. Completing it has taken far too long, but the delays were evidently a divine thing. They insured that I would read this passage on the train this morning: “In August, [General George] Washington had an army of 20,000. In the three months since, he had lost four battles — [...]
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