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Naming the main character January is like John Mark Comer naming his child Sunday

“It is amazing how effective governments —espe-cially our own —are at making sterilization and contraceptives available to women of color, despite their inability to reach these women with prenatal care, drug treatment, and other health services.”

Something funny about getting this as a gift

On the re-read

Gripping family & brotherhood tale. Couldn’t put the second half down. Enjoyed the brief reference to Things Fall Apart.

"You need to know that, before I moved, I shoved my theology and upbringing into my already overstuffed suitcase, certain they were necessary for my survival. They would be useful for defense and justification and in sharing the gospel if I were asked. I wasn't moving sent. I was moving superior."

It's the way the pages are numbered "P 041"

40 page introduction 🤤🤤

"To make of His story something that could neither startle, nor shock, nor terrify, nor excite, nor inspire a living soul is to crucify the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame. And if anybody imagines that its conventional presentation has of late been all that it should be, let him stop the next stranger in the street and ask what effect it has had on him."

Has anyone heard of this one?

Did not realize how chunky this was before requesting it from the library

The public library is getting a Christmas card from me this year

First usage of new library card <3

"In all of us there is a thirst for the infinite. God created us with this desire for an absolute. We must let this aspiration live in us!"

future review will probably be positively skewed by the experience of finding this as an antique hardcover

Gifted <3

Ploughing through my impulse used bookstore buys

Recommended by a friend

$3 find for the beach <3

Enjoyable and informative audiobook thus far

My brain is not about to be ok with 4 simultaneous books

Book club commitments 😤

Put a bookmark in chapter 3 a year and a half ago. Hitting restart!!

Thought I should read more white American males