January 2010
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Jan 28th
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Jan 21st
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Hospital ship confronted with Haiti's stark... →
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
Persuasion →
I have been doing a lot of running lately in preparation for a half-marathon that I’ll be running with my dear cousin Eden next weekend. Spending hours on the pavement has left me apathetic…
Jan 20th
Children of the Mind →
Children of the Mind is the final book of the Ender Quartet, written by the brilliant Orson Scott Card. The first book, Ender’s Game, is often required in junior high English courses, but my…
Jan 19th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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If someone put a gun to my head and said that I had to, HAD TO, create a graven image, I think I would end up making an idol of Marilynne Robinson. (Let’s just say for the sake of argument that I…
Jan 13th
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Teenage girls as aggressive as boys →
Could there be other reasons for behavior besides simple biological characteristics or chemical balance? Sounds like this one needs some sociocultural analysis.
Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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“Joy is not pleasure, a mere sensation, but a pervasive and constant sense of...”
– Dallas Willard
Jan 6th
Aanna’s 2010 Book List →
Anne Tyler n*@ The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin nn Home by Marilynne Robinson nn+ Slouching Toward Bethlehim by Joan Didion + Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card nn+ N.T. Wright…
Jan 6th
The Irresistible Revolution →
My first finished book of 2010 is The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claibourne. So here’s my book review, although I’m not happy about it. I hate book reviews. Correction: I hate writing…
Jan 5th
New Year’s Resolutions →
I have traditionally hated New Year’s Resolutions. They make me feel undisciplined and near-sighted. Since high school I have instead been asking God for something. So one year I asked for a…
Jan 3rd