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Sadly, This Was Not the Book That Made Me Redefine My Wheelhouse

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler

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Bingo Square: Not My Wheelhouse Originally, I was going to use this for my Listicle square but the more I read it, the more I realized how much this book was just not my style! I saw it on Bill Gates’ summer reading list, and I really need to learn my lesson that when people use the word faith they usually mean religious faith specifically rather than some general faith in the universe.  So you know, my bad! The author is a religion professor at Duke Divinity School, and had previously written a book about the history of the Prosperity […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:167 |

Horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

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Sometimes you come across a book that is so mind-blowingly good, you immediately go out and purchase every book ever written by the author. The Road to Jonestown was such a book. A huge, fat book that’s more than worth the effort, it tells you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the Reverend Jim Jones, his followers, just how he got hundreds of otherwise intelligent people to cede control of every aspect of their lives, and the sequence of events that led to the terrible loss of nearly one thousand lives in the Guyanese jungle. Starting with […]

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9/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

God Bless the Gargoyles and us, too

God Bless the Gargoyles by Dav Pilkey

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I absolutely love the illustrations in God Bless the Gargoyles. Dav Pilkey has stepped away from his more humorous stories and gone a spiritual and Christian route. The nod to a famous painting also is a neat treat. While the story is religious (the Church, the story of gargoyles and angels), it is not “in your face” overly religious. It is more of a spiritual story. However yet, it is not for a non-believer.   I would have like more history of the gargoyle. It is mentioned but not fully explored. Over all the story is sweet and simple. The […]

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9/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:341 |

Believe the Enneagram Hype

The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Ricahrd Rohr, Andreas Ebert

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I was skeptical about this book for two reason. When something is trendy, like the Enneagram, I hate it by default. (The first version of this book, to be fair, was from the 1980s.) I’ve also done a lot of introspective exercises in the last few years, and at this point I’m a bit skeptical of more of it.The reason is, at some point I think you have to focus less on yourself and more on the rest of the cosmos. I was mentally primed to not finish this book. About halfway through, though, it was obvious this would be […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

It’s like The Matrix for Thoughtful Christians

Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird

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After burning out at my old job, I’ve recently stepped into a new one that will hopefully allow me to prioritize the things I care about most in life – God, loved ones, and catching up on fun tv. Part of creating Halbs 3.0 has involved reconnecting to things I used to love doing, especially physical exercise and spiritual practices focused on being still and silent. Into the Silent Land  was recommended to me by a colleague, and after reading it I could see why. While Laird’s prose isn’t exactly easy to follow, it is powerful.  The author provides some historical […]

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8/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Hard to read while rolling your eyes

The Shack by William P. Young

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Like most Texans, I was raised very religious. Like most people who have religion shoved down their throats for 18 years, I am now an atheist. Atheism isn’t why I hated The Shack, though, it’s because it’s a fucking terrible book. I realized pretty quickly I didn’t like this book, given how shoddily the words are put together. I don’t even want to call it writing. I think I digested about 20% of the overall book, followed along completely, and still felt I gave it too much effort. I went back to Alabama Pink’s original review and was pretty gratified to […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:90 |

No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley

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As you might imagine, this memoir is not a fun one to work through, but that fact doesn’t mean it is not a good or doesn’t have significance. I was drawn to reading it after just finishing a YA novel focused on sexuality in a majority Mormon community, only to see that the trailer for the film adaptation for Boy Erased just dropped. And watching it was a lot to handle at a moment where I was already emotionally compromised, but I figured it would be worth it to read the source material and see just how Garrard Conley’s story […]

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7/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

28: An interesting, if inaccessible, book on liberation theology

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

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A decided for her book club pick that we’d be reading theology, and she wanted to focus on social justice issues. James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree was in her TBR, and she wanted to augment our discussion from social justice and activism issues. I’m not sure this is the most accessible book for public consumption, though there were parts that were compelling and enjoyable. As an academic, it was fun to read from a discipline outside mine, especially since Dr. Cone gave a lot of literary references that were familiar or interesting to me. Cone is […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |


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