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Their emulation of Jesus proved fatally incomplete …

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Here their emulation of Jesus proved fatally incomplete. In their quest to be inclusive and tolerant and up-to-date, the accommodationists imitated his scandalo...

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The Mountain: My Time on Everest by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Jeff Grim / 1 Comment

Viesturs provides the reader a first-hand description of the beauty and power of Everest. The beauty is in the sheer size of the mountain and its hard edges and...

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Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues by N.T. Wright

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Wright wants to use what historical research might teach us, and read scripture as its authors intended rather than with the philosophical assumptions of the mo...

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Three non-fiction books I'm looking forward to reading

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Despite my love-hate relationship with non-fiction, I constantly coming across books I want to read. In an attempt to impose some discipline on my reading I tho...

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My love-hate relationship with non-fiction

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

You know that phrase about your eyes being bigger than your stomach? It captures that sense of wanting to eat everything but then once you put it on your plate ...

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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Lehrer makes a strong case that the age old concept of rationality versus emotions is a deceptive oversimplification and contrary to how the brain actually work...

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