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• Blue Like Jazz: The Movie?

  My Opinion on this idea can be summed up in one word repeated over and over again:  NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,  NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, […]

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  April 2nd, 2008

• This Beautiful Mess

  I am currently reading this book by Rick McKinley, pastor of Imago Dei Church. It is a simple (I mean this in a good way) and thought provoking look at the kingdom of God. The video below  is a good introduction to what McKinley writes about in this fine book. I highly recommend it.
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  February 21st, 2008

• Foreskin’s Lament - A Book About Our Angry God

  Below you will find a commercial, for lack of a better word, for a new book by Shalom Auslander.  The video is an amazing piece of work (take a few minutes to watch it and you will see what I mean), and I can readily identify with much of what is said in it given […]

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  December 8th, 2007

• Must See Film: No Country For Old Men

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  As a recently converted fan of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction (I have read The Road and All the Pretty Horses and will soon read The Crossing) and a long-time fan of the Coen brothers’ films.  I am very intrigued about the upcoming release of  the film No Country for Old Men. […]

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  October 8th, 2007

• Has He Come to Save the World . . . or Destroy It?

  I don’t really know what to think of this.  Do you?

  Book Description (from amazon.com)MANGA (pronounced “mahn-ga”) is the Japanese word for comics. It has become a huge hit with American teens and tweens. Manga has emerged as the most popular comics category and is one of the fastest growing genres in American publishing. Appealing […]

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  August 25th, 2007

• Read a Book by Email through DailyLit

  If you are looking for free books that are no longer in copyright, perhaps the best site on the web is Project Gutenberg. Here you can download books in .txt and .pdf format for your reading pleasure.  There are literally thousands of books available, including most of the classics in English literature.  But, if you are […]

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  July 31st, 2007

• Must See Movie: The Golden Compass

  Awhile back I wrote about how you could get your own daemon from The Golden Compass website.  After visiting the site again, I noticed they have a new movie trailer up that can be posted to blogs, etc . . .  I offer it you, my gentle readers, for your viewing enjoyment.
  I read Philip Pullman’s […]

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  July 5th, 2007

• Take a Virtual Tour of Hell

  Anytime I can I love to spotlight something from my Alma Mater Eastern Kentucky University.  I spent almost seven years of my life there earning two degrees (a B.S. in Psychology and a Masters in Public Administration).  I also took numerous graduate courses in Psychology and English as well.
  Donald Hoffman, of the Preaching the Revised […]

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  June 5th, 2007

• Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84

  From the New York Times:
  Kurt Vonnegut’s dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84.
  Over the years, I have have read all but the last […]

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  April 12th, 2007

• Medieval Tech Support: Introducing the Book

  This short video is hilarious.  Thanks to Don Hoffman of the Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary List for the link.

   
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  April 2nd, 2007