Sunday Seven

Posted on | November 20, 2009 | No Comments

A septet of really good reading…

  1. The strong-willed leader.  John Ortberg (one of my favorite writers) says that a will that is surrendered to God isn’t supposed to be a weak will.  From Christianity Today’s Leadership Journal.
  2. Joel Osteen serves up recession-themed positive thinking.  A critique of Joel Osteen, and positive thinking in general, from the personal finance blog WalletPop (thanks, Dino!).
  3. Normal was never cool:  Inception of perception.  A meditation on self-image by sprinter and model Aimee Mullins, a double-amputee who stands between 5’8’ and 6’1” depending on her mood.  From Gizmodo.
  4. Apocalypse Then.  A two-part essay on how we responded to Y2K ten years ago, by Farhad Manjoo, who cites this as a rare example where millions united to prevent a disaster.  From Slate.
  5. Hollywood’s favorite cowboy.  A wide-ranging interview with 76-year-old Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men, The Road, and All the Pretty Horses, on religion, death, the end of the world and his love for his 11-year-old son.  From the Wall Street Journal.
  6. Why did God make me a democrat?  This is an interesting customer-generated book list at Amazon.  Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis fit this list.  Likely suspect Shane Claiborne is missing.  And half the books are by Philip Yancey, an apolitical writer in my opinion.
  7. More than ever, you CAN say that on television.  A NY Times article (with a few naughty words) on the decline of the family hour and the coarsening of television. 
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