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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:34 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
"The Call to Joy & Pain: Embracing suffering in your ministry," by Ajith Fernando.
There's a story in it I read today that I keep wanting to re-read even though I remember everything in it. It goes like this:
Ajith Fernando wrote:Once when we were having some serious problems in our ministry, I came home after a meeting deeply hurt. I lay in bed and burst into tears. My son walked into the room and for the first time saw his father crying. He went to his mother and asked what was wrong. She told him that I was having serious problems at work. Then he went to my computer, opened my e-mail address book, and wrote a letter to some of my best friends. It said that I was going through a lot of stress and asked for prayer for me. When I heard that he had done this, I was thrilled. I think the pain of that difficult time is leaving me, but I think I will always remember and be impacted by the kindness shown by my son.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:27 am
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Read
The Secret History by Donna Tartt over the weekend. Enjoyed it. Not really sure how to describe it...
--A
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 2:15 pm
by Orlion
Then did you truly read it?
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 4:20 am
by Linna Heartbooger
Just finished "Go Set a Watchman," by Harper Lee.
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 4:56 am
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Orlion wrote:Then did you truly read it?
Haha, I meant "genre" -wise. It's sorta a murder mystery without the mystery.
I really enjoyed her other book, "The Goldfinch" as well. Just good contemporary fiction I guess. I still have one more of hers, so will have to read it.
--A
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:11 am
by Wosbald
+JMJ+
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 5:53 am
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. My last unread book...not sure if I'm enjoying it yet...not too far in though.
--A
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:37 pm
by deer of the dawn
Arcadia by Iain Pears. So far, awesome. But I expected that from Pears. I don't know why his books aren't wildly more popular except that they aren't really "light" reading. You get so involved.
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:35 am
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More Fool Me, an autobiographical work by Stephen Fry.
--A
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:08 pm
by Wosbald
+JMJ+
A Theology of Criticism: Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Imagination by Michael P. Murphy
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:21 am
by Wosbald
+JMJ+
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:34 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Orlion wrote:Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
So random.. was just hanging out with friends, and someone gave this book as an example of, "Something made out of things which aren't sentences."
And then he read us an example.
Wosbald wrote:+JMJ+
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
That sounds like an awesome topic!
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:32 am
by Wosbald
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Linna Heartlistener wrote:Wosbald wrote:The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
That sounds like an awesome topic!
Sho'nuff.
Very good, so far, I tell you what.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:52 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Wosbald wrote:Sho'nuff.
Very good, so far, I tell you what.
Yay!
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 12:23 am
by Wosbald
+JMJ+
Linna Heartlistener wrote:Wosbald wrote:Sho'nuff.
Very good, so far, I tell you what.
Yay!
I should note that one has to be fairly well-founded in, and enthused about, philosophy and/or theology to really get into it.
I think that Z might get something out of this book (assuming that he hasn't already read it). It equitably engages Nietzsche and his inheritors, commending them where appropriate (i.e. in their rebellion against an essentialist ontotheological totalism) while chiding them in their tendency to view Difference (or "Differance"), instead of as an open space for the manifold appearing of Beauty, as the locus of a fundamental Chaos (which, ironically, tends to become its own totalism of an existentialist cast).
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 3:50 am
by Wosbald
+JMJ+
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:21 pm
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Sanctus by Simon Toyne.
Looks like a Da Vinci Code type thing...
--A
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:59 am
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Emperor: The Gates of Rome book 1 of Conn Iggulden's historical fiction of the rise of Caesar.
--A
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:10 pm
by deer of the dawn
Acceptance, Book 3 in the Southern Reach Trilogy. An intricate and very different book. I was worried that it was going to set up mysteries it didn't have the chops to unfold (*cough*George RR Martin*cough*) (lol) but very satisfying so far.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:01 am
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Emperor: The Death of Kings, book 2 of Iggulden's Rome series.
--A