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2012-11-08T06:43:14-07:00

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Intentional Christian Community: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing (Pt 2)

Last updated on: November 8, 2012 at 6:43 am By Alexis Neal

Review of The Intentional Christian Community Handbook: For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus, by David Janzen and a Community of Friends (Part 2 of 2) By ALEXIS NEAL And now for my biggest issue with this book. I said in Part 1 that I think Janzen’s idea of community lacks a solid gospel foundation. This is actually a twofold problem. First, Janzen veers dangerously close to a works-based understanding of salvation. Second, the communities he advocates are united... Read more

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David Janzen

2012-11-07T06:41:21-07:00

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Intentional Christian Community: Vocation, Community, and the Local Church (Pt 1)

Last updated on: November 7, 2012 at 6:41 am By Alexis Neal

Review of The Intentional Christian Community Handbook: For Idealists, Hypocrites, and Wannabe Disciples of Jesus, by David Janzen and a Community of Friends (Part 1 of 2) By ALEXIS NEAL The Christian church has ceased to be a body and has become instead a disconnected assortment of individuals. We no longer care for one another, meet one another’s needs, or walk alongside one another as the early church once did. “Church” has become somewhere we go once a week instead... Read more

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Christian

David Janzen

2012-11-06T06:30:46-07:00

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Joy and Sin in the Christian Life

Last updated on: November 6, 2012 at 6:30 am By Coyle Neal

Review of Holy Nomad: The Rugged Road to Joy by Matt Litton By COYLE NEAL In many ways, this book is the epitome of modern American Christianity: it is the result of a guy sitting alone in his basement thinking about himself and Jesus (see Chapter 1: “A Nomad in the Basement”). What is the result of his meditation? That we are too attached to material possessions, and should give them up (but not literally) in order to follow the... Read more

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Christian

Matt Litton

2012-11-05T06:16:41-07:00

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There and Back Again

Last updated on: November 5, 2012 at 6:16 am By Paul D. Miller

Review of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Reviewed by PAUL D. MILLER I first visited Middle Earth when I was in middle school. I owned a thick, dark yellow copy of The Hobbit (1937). It smelled musty and old, which is just right for a book like this. Like many a ten-year-old, I fell under the spell of the elves and dwarves and wizards and daydreamed my way through 6th grade by fighting great battles against goblins and trolls. As is my... Read more

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Fantasy

J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-11-02T06:08:41-06:00

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Building Heaven in China

Last updated on: November 2, 2012 at 6:08 am By Kendrick Kuo

Review of The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985 by John King Fairbank By KENDRICK KUO Studying China is less about studying a country, and more about studying a civilization, with all the complexities hidden within a supposedly unified edifice. China has a long history of integrating state, society, and culture, under the emperor who was himself integral to the balance of the cosmic order. With such a rich history, why do popular conceptions of the modernization of China revolve solely around... Read more

2012-11-01T06:11:22-06:00

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A Panegyric for Keynes

Last updated on: November 1, 2012 at 6:11 am By Paul D. Miller

Review of Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed By PAUL D. MILLER It seems an odd time to write a history book in praise of John Maynard Keynes. We live in an economic world largely shaped, for the last seventy years, by his ideas. It isn’t doing too well at the moment. Nonetheless, that is what Liaquat Ahamed has done with Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. The book, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in History,... Read more

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Liaquat Ahamed

2012-10-31T06:00:20-06:00

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Justice for Enron

Last updated on: October 31, 2012 at 6:00 am By Kendrick Kuo

Review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Directed by Alex Gibney By KENDRICK KUO Growing up, I heard about the story of Enron, but having lived overseas when the scandal broke out and only being a middle schooler at the time, it didn’t make a big impression on me. But after watching the film, I can better understand the ongoing conversation about regulation on Wall Street. Not in the specifics, but the broad milieu of strong resentment toward... Read more

2012-10-30T06:00:38-06:00

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Untangling God and Caesar

Last updated on: October 30, 2012 at 6:00 am By Coyle Neal

Review of Raised Right: How I Untangled My Faith from Politics and Learned to Start Living the Gospel by Alisa Harris. By COYLE NEAL I am always pleasantly surprised to be reminded that there is such a thing as the “evangelical left.” Not that I’m much of a lefty myself (as anyone who’s read more than two words of anything I’ve ever written knows), but I’m always nervous when something that is not the Gospel is overly connected with Christianity... Read more

2012-10-29T06:00:51-06:00

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Top Train

Last updated on: October 29, 2012 at 6:00 am By Paul D. Miller

A review of Unstoppable, Directed by Tony Scott By Paul D. Miller Tony Scott is famous for having made Top Gun (1986), one of the definitive action movies of the 1980s and coolest expressions of American nationalism on film, and for being the brother of Ridley Scott. Sadly, Tony was in the headlines this summer because he committed suicide. His final film, it turned out, was Unstoppable (2010). Tony Scott’s filmography does not boast the same monuments of modern cinema... Read more

2012-10-26T06:00:18-06:00

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Weirdness at its most effective

Last updated on: October 26, 2012 at 6:00 am By Coyle Neal

Review of Cloud Atlas Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis By COYLE NEAL Don’t let the title fool you—there is neither cartography nor meteorology in the latest entry in the “I read a philosophy book once” series of films by the Wachowski brothers siblings starship. As with their previous movies, Cloud Atlas contains a goodly mix of action, humor, fantastically imaginative settings, pseudo-philosophical one-liners, and Elrond. Weighing in at just under three hours, this lengthy tale is well worth... Read more

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