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Ryan George
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Two Decades of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
I started serving in the parking lots of my church twenty years ago this week.
My church has evolved through different seasons, and each version has been reflected in my team and in the energy of the parishioners in the parking lot.
Over those two decades, I’ve gone through even more versions of myself. I’ve rearranged my bucket list, my theology, and my habits. I’ve morphed through different person
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| I finished Karmin Fouche’s book with my feet in a mountain creek. It was the third straight Sunday afternoon with my Crocs submerged while drinking in her words. Before I closed the book, I counted: I had dog-eared more than 20% of its pages, and eve ...more | |
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| When I really like an audiobook, I buy a physical copy for my office bookshelf. I decided to buy a copy of Natalia Terfa’s book—while listening to Jeff Chu’s forward—before I even got to Terfa’s writing. I came to this short volume during a season wh ...more | |
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| In this book, Britney Winn Lee invites her audience to linger longer in moments and to ask more questions about them. These pages contained more memoir than I had anticipated, and I would guess that women would be more interested in her specific anec ...more | |
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| I find it ironic that Aaron Cline Hanbury is and has been a magazine editor. I was distracted by spelling errors and odd grammatical choices. In most of the chapters, I needed to read one or more sentences twice to figure out what he was saying. The ...more | |
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| Scot McNight spends his sections of the book extrapolating upon the theory that Paul was traumatized by the church in first-century Corinth and writing from a place of PTSD. This premise and its ramifications could’ve worked without that strained con ...more | |
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| I’ve not seen an episode of the TV show that spurred Michael Schur to write this book, but that wasn’t a problem. These pages hold only a few passing references to the hit series. My struggle with this work was that the main text didn’t seem to resol ...more | |
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| I’ve not seen an episode of the TV show that spurred Michael Schur to write this book, but that wasn’t a problem. These pages hold only a few passing references to the hit series. My struggle with this work was that the main text didn’t seem to resol ...more | |
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| Liz Bucar uses these pages to relay the origin stories of practices that abound in our culture and to explain how seemingly secular practices take on religious undertones. I appreciated that as an agnostic, she pointed out both the harm and the beaut ...more | |
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| Liz Bucar uses these pages to relay the origin stories of practices that abound in our culture and to explain how seemingly secular practices take on religious undertones. I appreciated that as an agnostic, she pointed out both the harm and the beaut ...more | |
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| Scott Galloway earned this book deal with his influential podcasts. Without his amassed fortune and following, I wonder if publishers would’ve green lit this book. While self-deprecating, Galloway has more stories of getting it wrong or finding incre ...more | |
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.”
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“In God we trust; all others bring data.”
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“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
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