storefront:
read in 2012:
The Meaning of Marriage| Keller
Most Talkative| Cohen
Fantastic Mr. Fox| Dahl
The Book Thief| Zusak
Breath| Winton
Handful of Dust| Waugh
The Seven Laws of Teaching| Gregory
Mockingjay| Collins
Catching Fire| Collins
The Hunger Games| Collins
The Starboard Sea| Dermont
Leaving Egypt| DeGroat
The Circle of Seasons| Ireton
The Triumph of the City| Glaeser
Looking for Alaska| Green
Wonder| Palacio
A Wrinkle in Time| L'Engle
In the Garden of Beasts| Larson
Jesus + Nothing = Everything| Tchividjian
Ginger Pye| Estes
How to Save a Life| Zarr
The Paris Wife| McLain
The Elegance of the Hedgehog| Barbery
Give Them Grace| Fitzpatrick
The Underdog| Zusak
The Shaping of a Life| Tickle
Hippie Boy| Ricks
Compassion, Justice & the Christian Life| Lupton
The Fault in our Stars| Green
Bonhoeffer| Metaxas
Creation Regained| Wolters
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The initial shock is mitigated by the fact that the book is comprised of essays by very different authors. Ha! At first I was like *no way!*.
As I scanned through the Amazon presentation of the book really briefly, it kind of struck me that this book even exists. It’s the kind of thing you would find in the academic world: a book of essays on a topic portraying different perspectives, which allows the reader to read all the way around a topic and, to some extent, formulate his/her own response.
Ten years ago, would such a book have been written on the Christian market? Acknowledging the value of many perspectives implicitly encourages the reader to treat them all equally and to respond for his/her own self. I find it interesting that in the wake of books telling you THE biblical way to date, you have a book like this.
Aaaah. The benefits of postmodernism.
I saw that linked off her blog. I definitely laughed.