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Lecher or lover: how do you live the Bible?
With a huge HT to Rick at This Lamp, I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading and have found it captivating, at least the early chapters that I’ve been through.
With the title taken from John’s experience of eating the scroll in Revelation 10, Peterson’s essential premise [...]
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Neal Stephenson: Anathem
In lieu of a more formal book review, here is my capsule summary:
“In response to the sudden appearance of extraterrestrial visitors, philo-math monks gather together to discuss multi-state causal consciousness models as a outflow of quantum mechanics.”
Sound interesting? Anathem is a great book and I highly recommend it if you like mathematics, philosophy, Neal Stephenson, [...]
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Kindle: reading, bookmarking and PDFs
I‘ve purchased a few titles now and have been reading regularly now that I’m back in my daily “work” routine and not on holiday vacation. I typically ride the metro bus to/from work, which means at least 30 minutes of uninterrupted reading (or nap) time each way!
Titles I’ve purchased:
KJV Bible
NET Bible (Noteless)
Star Wars: Legacy of [...]
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The “123″ book meme
James tagged me with the “123″ book meme. He says that I am “supposed to pick up the nearest book, turn to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and post the three sentences after that.”
Ironically, the closest book is in a stack that I haven’t given any attention to since I put them down by [...]
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