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Category Archives: book review
How Good is the Golden Rule? A Line to Toe or a Rule to Work
“Those who can do and those who can’t teach” This adage is something that annoys teachers but those who hurl it at them often point to a genuine truth. As we evolve into the “Information Age” the kings of the … Continue reading
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Bill Gates on the Road to Character
Gatesnotes
Making Sense of God
TGC Prequil JesusCreed Jesus Creed RJS and again
Between the World and Me
Reviews of Ta-Nehisi Coates book Michelle Alexander NYT Dreher
Same Sex Marriage as Theological Crisis for the CRC
The Standard Narrative of Progressive Liberationism Many Americans, Christian or not assume a narrative that lines up the following into a new American civil rights manifest destiny. In the American Civil War and Abolitionist movement American abolished slavery In the … Continue reading
The Road to Character, Chapter 10, The Big Me, and Summary
Handing This In Late I finished reading this book right before a week of vacation, wrote half of what I wanted to write on chapter 10, but then didn’t pick up this task again until now. I’ve listened to chapter … Continue reading
Samuel Johnson and Montaigne in The Road to Character by David Brooks
Samuel Johnson and Michel de Montaigne David Brook’s The Road to Character is a biographical box of chocolates and this chapter, like many of the others has a treat composed of two kinds of sweets. He begins the chapter with Samuel Johnson with … Continue reading
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David Brooks’ treatment of Augustine in The Road to Character
Augustine Of all the figures in Brooks’ biographical box of chocolates Augustine I knew the best. Brooks’ treatment of Augustine as a ladder climbing youth fighting inner turmoil seems postured almost like a Tim Keller sermon for modern New Yorkers. … Continue reading
The Cheap Grace of the Ascending Civil Religion
Yo @ColinJost, do you not get this kind hatred is why trump won the election? Shame. Shame shame shame. pic.twitter.com/OSsru9b92u — PWR BTTM (@PWRBTTMBAND) November 21, 2016 In 2008 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were against Same-sex marriage and for … Continue reading →