CharlieDean

To read or not to read. That is the Question.

There is this book out there getting all kinds of buzz in the Christian interwebs – mostly negative from the sites I visit. I’ve read some quotations from it that have really angered me. I don’t have much respect for the author – at best, I think he favors inflammatory rhetoric over grace. At worst, [...]

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Best BOOKS of 2011

I set a personal-best record this year: it looks like I’ll finished either 59 or 60 books before the stroke of midnight on Saturday. I’m not sure how. It seems like I have less time than ever to read at my office – but I guess I’ve turned off the television a lot more at [...]

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All is Grace: review

“Sip Charlie, don’t guzzle.” That’s what I told myself when I started Brennan Manning’s autobiography All is Grace: a ragamuffin memoir on Friday afternoon sitting in O’Hare, waiting for my plane to Denver. I finished it mid-flight. If I were alone, I might have finished it in tears. Although I haven’t read all of Manning’s books, [...]

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