Tag: book review
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Epic of Gilgamesh Review
I grew overwhelmed over the past few years with how many books I’ve read and I thought I needed to write drawn out reviews for everything. That’s not so true: short reviews work just as well and that’s just as true for this Epic of Gilgamesh review. The things that struck me most about this…
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Eugene Peterson and His All Out War on the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Often we hear historians say that the greatest critiques of the church come from the radicals inside her. Eugene Peterson has fit this bill for years, pastoring pastors on how to pastor instead of coddling and enabling them to stay in their addictions to greed and power and graceful lusts and fame. I’m reminded of…
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Forbidden by Ted Dekker
This was, by far, the most frustrating novel I’ve read. It comes out tomorrow, for those interested. Don’t get me wrong, Dekker put effort into Forbidden. He’d have to with his “New York Times Bestselling Author” blurb on every book. The book had moments of rapture, these moments where I believed these characters existed out…