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Beautiful language and captivating characters. Wish I weren't so sleepy at night when I settle in with this...

Couldn't get through it. Ehics of Jesus without spiritual roots.

This book is fantastic. Like a younger Ta-Nehesi Coates. Feel like I'm getting educated both culturally and generationally.

Really captivating and personal. Provides an on-the-ground picture of how black lives are undervalued when it comes to enforcing law in poor neighborhoods.

This is a bit of a slog! I thought a book written by a younger person would be faster paced than this is. But if my daughter can get through this, I must press on!

Holy crap. just the intro and the first chapter of this book is naming the sin I have committed in the name of ministry and is adding a crucial insight into the inextricable connection between Jesus' cultural context and his relevance to the oppressed. He is naming the question that is so relevant right now. Could have been written yesterday.

great chapter on Dorothy day. I had never heard of "personalism" as an approach to service, but it captures how I think about mission. The inherent dignity of each person and the call to start with whoever is in front of you.

I like the idea. Reminds me of the Rolheiser book, A Sacred Fire, which also deals with second half spirituality. I'm cringing with how he frames in black and white which spirituality is more mature and which is less (traditional versus progressive). Seems to me you can go either direction towards greater maturity.

Ugh. This is not turning out to be the book I was looking for. More Biblical commentary than practice. I may be done with this one.

Got excited from the first chapter. Love the topic. By the second chapter I'm longing for stories about living out meals that are evocative and not merely illustrative.

Got excited from the first chapter. Love the topic. By the second chapter I'm longing for stories about living out meals that are evocative and not merely illustrative.

I love his overall themes and concepts. They are a helpful corrective to the purely heavenly minded theology of my upbringing. At the same time I find myself reading and nodding off. As much as he is making an argument for an embodied theology, his arguments are all disembodied ideas. Well illustrated and simply put as possible. But still primarily theory. I'm longing for practice.

Wow! Just picked up this book because I liked The Social Animal. This is hitting the spot. Dealing with themes of failure, humility, and ultimately where does character come from.

I'm enjoying this book. It applies a lot of what is talked about in "How Children Succeed" and makes it practical. How do you teach grit? How do you avoid nagging so much? I'm already experimenting with my kids. (Alana, Kai & Corrie - blame this book for how Daddy has been these past few weeks!) :)

Readable. A different perspective on solutions to education than I've been exposed to. Raising doubts about depending solely on test result data for determining teacher/school effectiveness.

Fun read!

A few good concepts. Could use some editing to keep it interesting