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There’s a scene in Steven Frears’ film High Fidelity where record shop owner Rob reorganizes his entire record collection after his latest breakup. “How are you organizing them?” asks his friend, Dick. “Chronologically?” “Nope,” says Rob. “Not alphabetically,” says Dick….Read More→
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Like a lot of people who grew up in evangelical circles, I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that God is angry with me. From as early as I can remember, I’ve known that I’m a sinner and therefore…Read More→
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This dense little book is another sign of the vibrant, lively work going on in “The Little Parish that Could,” St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. The chapters originated with an ambitious theological consultation in 2008 on questions about sexuality…Read More→
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If you like books with a shallow, spoon-fed plot and paper-thin, one-dimensional characters (the psychopathic Muslim hitman, the powerful and deceptive feminist, the heroic, ex-Navy Seal patriot) designed to ramp up our collective anxiety about Iran, North Korea, the UN,…Read More→
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Curiosity is the fictional account of the real-life Mary Anning, the early 19th century amateur paleontologist from Lyme Regis, England, and Henry De la Beche, a member of the scientific establishment who ended up with the credit for many of…Read More→
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When I was a kid, I thought it didn’t matter what I threw out the car window or burned in the garbage bin. I knew Jesus was coming back to rapture me away before He burned up this old Earth….Read More→
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If you enjoyed last year’s Reason, Faith and Revolution by the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton, you’ll be pleased to know that he’s still got theology on his mind. While his last book was a witty, biting, sermon-like contribution to…Read More→
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I was worried that Tom Jokinen’s Curtains might simply be derivative of that other undertaker/writer named Tom (Thomas Lynch, whose book, The Undertaking is one of the best books I’ve ever read.) Not so. Beyond the subject matter and matching…Read More→
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I’ve seen Christian artists take many different stances on church, most of which I think are unhelpful: hostility, indifference, subservience and provocation. A lot of talk among Christian artists seems like self-indulgent whining dressed up as critique. Why doesn’t church…Read More→
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Thomas Lynch, known to the people of Milford, Michigan, as the senior undertaker at Lynch and Sons, and to the rest of us as a poet and essayist, tries his hand at fiction in his new book, Apparition and Late…Read More→