Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #19
Catch 22. It’s all you have to say to explain a ridiculous situation that is created by contradictory rules. The phrase comes from the classic book Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. The book is set…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #20
If you read this blog you know that I grew up working in my father’s junkyard. Many of the people who worked for my Dad were Mexican-American. Spanish was spoken as often — perhaps more…
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Reading List
The first quarter of the year is about to close so it’s time to share my updated reading list. There are 31 books on the list, which stuns me because it’s even faster than the…
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The Genealogy of my Barbarian Conversion
A few years ago I was reading a book about the spread of Christianity across Europe, and a reference was made to the book The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher. I…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #21
The first time I heard Tony Campolo preach was in chapel at Westmont College. I fell out of my chair laughing at his irreverence, passion, and incredible sense of humor. That he was preaching a…
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Don’t Get Me Wrong!
If you travel internationally you might consider picking up a copy of the bookDon’t Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide by Julia Grosse and Judith Reker. It’s a book of photographs showing various hand…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #22
It was January of 1981. I was a senior at Westmont and found myself in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a Sierra Trek program that taught about caring for God’s creation. D’Aun, my fiance at…
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Shhh…Quiet…Introverts Writing
It was a couples small group study when I first found my voice about being an introvert. Of the twelve or so people in the study, nine or ten were extroverts. Not surprising given that…