Books

Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship

January 2, 2011
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Like a metaphorical smack to the face, Bonhoeffer begins his work Discipleship with a profound and poignant contrast between cheap and costly grace. This blatant refusal and repulsion of cheap grace, and acceptance and requirement of costly grace by the Christian disciple sets the tone for the remainder of this stunning work. After my second [...]

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Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamozov’ review

December 3, 2010
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This review must be broken into a few different sections. The first will be my general feel of the whole book and that within; and that is where I believe my first problem lies. My translation is from Everyman’s Library by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, and I must say that I did not enjoy [...]

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Death of the Printed Book?

September 30, 2010

Will print books be obsolete within a short time?  Will book stores only be used book stores in the near future?  Every avid reader I speak to has tried an ebook reader of some sort, kindle, kudos, the vaunted ipad, and all say the same thing: “I like it but this electronic gidgamagag will never [...]

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The Emptying of the Self

September 23, 2010

It is a great irony that in an age where humanity has reached new heights of self-gratification and feelings of personal entitlement, we have also developed the nasty practice of emptying ourselves of all responsibility. We are quick to shout in protest but slow to think about what is being said. We are proud of [...]

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The Sickness of Cynicism

September 12, 2010

In Conan O’brien’s final send off on his short-lived time as host of the Tonight Show, he had an important message for his viewers—Don’t Be Cynical.  Now if there is anyone who has just cause to be cynical one would think it would be Conan.  His transition to the Tonight Show was talked about for [...]

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The Meaning of Meany

September 12, 2010

Everyone at some point in their life asks the question, “What is the meaning of my existence?”  Socrates said a long time ago that if we do not take the time to ask ourselves questions like this one and examine what we do and why we do it, we risk being irrelevant.  The search for [...]

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