Admittedly I’m cheating a bit here. This isn’t really a book. At least not originally. Like my first entry about Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip. But if you took all the Calvin strips I read over the years it would fill a three book volume. I know, because I have all three next to me here in my home office.
And oh my, what a comic strip it was when it was being regularly published. Bill Watterson captured the essence of childhood with the witty, cynical, adventure seeking little boy called Calvin and his stuffed tiger …
has become a renowned book in the olive oil world. Rightfully so, because author Tom Mueller has done a brilliant job of researching, documenting, and then revealing the crooked side of the olive oil industry. It really is a groundbreaking book.
. Each day, usually in the mornings, I would turn to the daily entry and read the three suggested Scripture references and then the daily meditation. Of course there have been times I fell behind — sometimes by as much as ten days — but my consistency has been fairly good. The book has two years worth of these daily devotionals, and I’ve enjoyed them so much that I’m going to start back at the beginning again.
just as the Republican National Convention is opening. We hear a lot about how divided the nation is today, and this book offers a unique perspective on why that is. I encourage everyone, no matter your political leaning, to read it.
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