Jonathan Anderson

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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

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"This was an experiment in listening to this book via audible.com... it turns out this drives me nuts, and I'm moving very slowly through McCollough's excellent book. I think I'd love the audiobook... if I could listen to it while holding the hardcopy in my lap and following along." — Feb 07, 2016 08:32PM

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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

by Maryanne Wolf

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Ideas Have Consequences

by Richard M. Weaver

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Jonathan’s Quotes

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness

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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

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“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“The Bible is full of evidence that God's attention is indeed fixed on the little things. But this is not because God is a great cosmic cop, eager to catch us in minor transgressions, but simply because God loves us--loves us so much that we the divine presence is revealed even in the meaningless workings of daily life. It is in the ordinary, the here-and-now, that God asks us to recognize that the creation is indeed refreshed like dew-laden grass that is "renewed in the morning" or to put it in more personal and also theological terms, "our inner nature is being renewed everyday". Seen in this light, what strikes many modern readers as the ludicrous details in Leviticus involving God in the minuitae of daily life might be revisioned as the very love of God. ”
― Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work

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