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Bioethics: A Primer for Christians
BY: Denis Haack
Gilbert Meilaender offers a easy-to-understand primer covering a wide range of topics including procreation, abortion, suicide, euthanasia, organ donation and medical experimentation on humans.
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Bird Feeders
BY: Denis Haack
It’s hard to “let life pause.” Expect plenty of criticism—some of the most scathing from Christians—if you decide to cultivate this grace. And, for those who would like to cultivate it, I have a simple, practical suggestion: get a bird feeder.
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Blankets (Craig Thompson, 2003)
BY: Jeremy Huggins
When you pick up the book Blankets you’ll immediately notice is the drawing on the cover: Two adolescents stand huddled in the snow, a thick forest as backdrop, and it looks cold: one picture saying 582 pages’ worth of words.
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Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart (2009)
BY: Denis Haack
Margie and I add to our Toad Hall collection of Christmas music by purchasing one new album each year. So, when I learned Bob Dylan was releasing Christmas in the Heart, this year's selection was guaranteed.
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Bob Dylan: Love and Theft (2001)
BY: Denis Haack
The danger for anyone who truly faces the fragmentation and fallenness of the world is either despair or cynicism, for all his gritty honesty Bob Dylan has never succumbed to either.
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews (Jonathan Cott, 2006)
BY: Denis Haack
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews includes 31 interviews of Dylan spanning five decades; it’s for readers who understand how interviews with the musician are “essential.”
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Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs
BY: Denis Haack
Roney Clapp’s book of essarys runs the gammet with pieces on Winnie-the-Pooh, consumerism, shame, family values, liturgy, the country-western singer Tom T. Hall, jazz, and The X-Files.
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Bored By Life, By God
BY: Denis Haack
I’ve been thinking about what we Christians experience when we read Scripture. On the one hand, we believe it to be God’s revelation of himself, the Story of redemption in Christ that is unfolding in space and time. It is the telling of a gospel, Kevin Vanhoozer says, that “displays a goodness than which nothing greater can be dramatized.” On this creedal level, it’s dramatic.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert Putnam, 2000)
BY: Donald Guthrie
Gone bowling lately? If you have, chances are you enjoyed the nation’s favorite leisure activity by yourself Not only are Americans bowling alone but we are disengaging from almost all types of social activity.
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Breaking Her Fall (Stephen Goodwin, 2003)
BY: Marsena Konkle
We hope our kids will see through the emptiness of early sexual activity and make good choices. This is certainly what the main character of Breaking Her Fall hopes.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
- Erma Bombeck
Last summer I went to Connecticut to visit the Fitzgeralds and smuggled three live ducks over Eastern Airlines for their children, but I have been inactive criminally since then.
- Flannery O'Connor
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
- Thomas Aquinas
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On my desk is a little vase of flowers cut from our yard, a little reminder of the beauty that is all around if we only have eyes to see. I've needed that reminder after reading the latest news of the horrific oil spill in the Gulf. Such glory in this world, such brokenness. Such hope, such deep need for redemption. These are the realities of life and death we seek to explore on this web site. Thank you for visiting.
Denis & Margie
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