Its November, soon it will be December and “Christmas” - the time of gift giving. In this post and several others to follow it is my intent to offer brief recommendations on some of the best products I have experienced - especially in the books/movies/software arena - the sort of things that make a perfect [...]
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Stephen Lawhead is a prolific author. As a teen I always wanted to read his fantasy books but never had the opportunity. I recently borrowed his historical novel, The Iron Lance, from my local library (Pennwood). I’m sure if the librarians stumble across this post they curse my name - the book is [...]
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Talking to God? In theory it sounds great - in practice its not very easy. Why? Well, we all have our reasons. I struggle because He doesn’t speak back to me in a loud booming voice. Sometimes I say, “God, could you speak up a bit?” I’m not being sarcastic - but it [...]
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Philip Pullman is a master in the literary genre. I have rarely read novels with such beauty and depth. His Dark Materials is a trilogy of works including the books The Golden Compass1, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. These works are rather recent but already deserve to be considered amongst the classics fantasy [...]
Hotel Rwanda stars Don Cheadle as a hotel manager in Rwanda during the genocide who also happens to be Hutu (the tribe in power at the time that led the genocide). Cheadle’s character, based on real-life Paul Rusesabagina, refuses to participate in the genocide and rather than idly stand by begins to offer Tutsis (the [...]
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