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L.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
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Positively Powerless: How a Forgotten Movement Undermined Christianity
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The worst possible thing to say: “If there is anything I can do, let me know”?
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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity:
"Summary: An account of the rise of techno-capitalism and the threat it poses to humanity and to the Earth.
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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale – A Fresh Look at the Many Dimensions of God and Humanity:
"Buechner examines the arc of the gospel using the well known genres of tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale--that is, bad news, good news, and transformation or fantasy. He begins with the tragedy of sin and the fallen world, pictured in Christ's shed tea"
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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale – A Fresh Look at the Many Dimensions of God and Humanity:
"Such a beautiful book. I particularly appreciated the chapter on The Gospel as Tragedy. Here's a quote from that section:
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“There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.”
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“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.”
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
“We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.”
― Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
― Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
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