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Barnabas’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barnabas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Barnabas Piper
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in Minneapolis, The United States
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September 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/bpipes81
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It's hard to be positive about this book because the story is so horrific, but that is kind of the point - the futility and brutality of the war on drugs. Winslow based every bit of it on reality and history (and present day). It is a hard read, but
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I love Don Winslow's writing. The only reason this didn't get 5 stars is that, as a collection of novellas, it left me wanting *too much* more. Winslow is maybe the best crime writer working today. He sucks you into the world of his characters, makes ...more |
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“They want the PK to dress like a grandparent and behave like Jesus. But they also seem to wait for the time when the pastor’s daughter makes out and the son drinks beer.”
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.1”
― Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
― Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
“some people assume all is well, that the PK has it all together. They’re usually wrong; remember, PKs are as human as everyone else.”
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lament challenges the church to acknowledge real suffering and plead with God for his intervention. The”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“Shalom, therefore, does not eschew or diminish the role of the other or the reality of a suffering world. Instead, it embraces the suffering other as an instrumental aspect of well-being. Shalom requires lament.”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“It is a wonderful thing to be born on this side of the cross, knowing the full-orbed gospel. It is an even better thing to be sealed and empowered by the Spirit of God at Jesus’s behest. The coming of the Spirit was a crazy dream for Moses; it was a distant hope for Ezekiel; but it is true for you.”
― Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies
― Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies
