Monthly Archives: April 2008
A Wedding, My Dance Moves, An Attack
This is the last part of a three part series as I read through T.J. Matthews Choose Your Own Adventure Series. CYOA books place the reader as the main character who must choose his or her own path. In the … Continue reading
My Hatred For Secular
When a ten year old boy told the pastor he wanted to pray for the football teams prior to the Super Bowl, that they would be safe and it would be an exciting game, the pastor scoffed at his request … Continue reading
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Wiffle Ball Game
I’m playing in a wiffle ball game against the 4th graders. The rain is holding back and blue skies are sneaking around the grey clouds. It’s just me vs. four 4th graders in the church parking lot and I’m down … Continue reading
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The Great Man by Kate Christensen
Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man is more about the women who loved the great man, rather than Oscar Feldmen, a famous, eccentric painter and playboy, known for rejecting the popular abstractionist painters of his time, in order to pave … Continue reading
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath was originally published in 1951. The Sabbath, is a short book, focusing on the holiness of the seventh day and man within space and time. It shines light on a biblical worldview of creating, resting, … Continue reading
Not Safe, But Good Volume II
Not Safe, But Good takes its title from a phrase in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when the beaver is describing Asland. Brett Lott also gives the same description to the 13 short stories in Volume II. Volume II was … Continue reading
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Contracting Cholera in Africa
This is the second blog of a three blog series where I narrate my adventures through Choose Your Own Adventure Books given to me after I made a sarcastic remark about how much I liked them and was taken seriously. Read the … Continue reading
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Bit By A Rabid Dog
At a church meeting I made a joke about Choose Your Own Adventure Books. My sarcasm went undetected and the next day I had three brand new Choose Your Own Adventure Books leaning against my apartment door. The first one … Continue reading
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Hierarchical Leadership and Apostolic Leadership
Hierarchical leaders focus on control, order and nostalgia. Apostolic leadership yearns for the ‘not yet’. Dreaming, faith, imagination, risk taking, pioneering and future goals characterize apostolic leadership. Administration, bureaucracy, reminiscence and impersonal systems and structures characterize hierarchical leadership. Apostolic leaders … Continue reading
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