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Bob Koo
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History is the study of change through time, and theoretically, it could be about almost anything that happens. But it must be selective if it is to be intelligible. Indeed, in practice, what we call “history” leaves out many of the most
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“How is it that in a supposedly relativistic, you-do-you age, so many people have been shamed or “dragged” online, helplessly watching their reputation or career be destroyed? The answer is not just that some people are mean but that the form of the web undermines moral reconciliation”
― Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
― Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
“The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.”
― Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
― Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
“Understanding, I believe, is a unifying force and unity is just what is unlikely to happen in a culture where people can live next to someone who fundamentally disagrees with them about life’s most important questions. Empathy says, “Okay, I don’t get understand you, but I don’t have to and I don’t have to win the argument. And don’t worry about the recycling bins while you’re out of town; I’ll take care of them.”
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“If the web is the water we live in, expressive individualism is the chlorine that permeates it.”
― Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
― Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
“All parenting involves choosing between the day (why have another argument at dinner?) and the years (the child must learn to eat vegetables). Nancy’s error seems to have been that she always focussed on the day, in a ceaseless quest to keep peace in the home she shared with the hypersensitive, controlling, increasingly hostile stranger who was her son. She thought that she could keep the years at bay by making each day as good as possible, but her willingness to indulge his isolation may well have exacerbated the problems it was intended to ameliorate.”
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Bob’s 2024 Year in Books
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