Tag: What We’re Reading
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday I
Near the top of my list is Paul Mariani’s new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking 2008).
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
The idea of “summer reading” seems to evoke beaches and lawn chairs and leisure. I’m not sure that describes my summer, but in this spirit let me begin with the most popular genre I enjoy: mystery novels.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
This summer I started with Zygmunt Baumann’s piece on postmodernity entitled “Liquid Modernity.” Then I read Wm. Young’s “The Shack” which friends had been urging for a long time. I can see why. It’s a fascinating take on the Trinity and theodicy. I’ve also read Bill Barry’s “A Friendship Like No Other” and Jim Martin’s…
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
Having seen ‘Oh What a Lovely War’ on the stage recently, a musical which satirises the senseless carnage of World War I, I felt the need to read in detail about how the War began and how it was conducted.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
I’ve decided to divide my reading list into three categories: liturgical material, serious academic reading, and guilty pleasures.
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
…and of course dozens of board-books for our 14-month old daughter of which Jesus and the Twelve Dude Who Did, telling the story of each of the apostles as their faces stick out into the page, might be of interest to the Pray Tell readership.
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What Liturgists Read in Summer
As we work to determine appropriate implementation strategies for the new translation of the Roman Missal, I am studying The Change Handbook.