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why God made altos: Debby Boone, Be Thou my Vision. Great hymns of faith

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Debby Boone comes across on this CD as one classy lady, from the stunning cover photo to the lush alto with which she handles a tenspot of well-selected traditional hymns. The orchestration is what you’d expect from a member of the Boone family: expert, spare with occasional flourishes, from time to time a jostling with the edge of Toomuchness, arrangements that are satisfying without being remarkable. (more…)

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not a walk in the park: Praise and Worship, Rivers of Joy, by Don Moen

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Rivers of Joy, a live worship CD recorded in Colorado Springs and led by Don Moen, features a highly-trained Big Choir, an interesting solo or two, audience participation, and the appearance of spontaneity. (more…)

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2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard

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‘Funny how different things look from up close.

Three years ago my family and I left a sixteen-year stint in Costa Rica, a place we loved and where we believed we’d one day die and be buried. Of all places, we came to Indianapolis, a town with a reputation for dullness placed smack in the middle of the nation’s Heartland. We have no Midwestern roots and so accepted by default the conventional wisdom that we were coming to a bland place for the sake of a great job.

How wrong we were! (more…)

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Rosie the deer

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The Rhodesian Ridgeback, an African canine breed that was once used to hunt lions, is normally not associated with the phrase ‘like a little deer’. But Rosie, our five-year-old Ridgeback looks just like that as she sleeps, curled up on the rug she’s wrestled into just the right mound of folds and wrinkles that make it her bona fide napping place, looks just like that. (more…)

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Fido, come home!

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The latest entry on my technological almost-too-good-to-be-true list is a service that links would be pet-adopters with dogs and cats desperately in need of a home like theirs. Check out www.1-800-save-a-pet.com.

You sign up to receive information about a specific kind of adoptable pet, say a Labrador Retriever. You also input your zip code on the assumption that you’d rather travel 7 miles to pick up little Fido than, say seventy-seven. After that, it’s simple. You receive emails with the name and description of adorable little guys and gals that very much need your love and stability. (more…)

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the house as castle: House & Garden magazine

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House and Garden is a big, beautiful, in-your-face collection of colors and designs for the well-heeled reader without children in diapers or other unstylish impediments to the concept of home as castle. (more…)

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the big daddy: Golf Digest magazine

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Golf Digest is the big daddy of a well-populated family of golf publications. It’s self-styled tag line–‘The #1 Golf Publication’–is well-earned. (more…)

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pragmatic, uneven, essential: Evangelical Missions Quarterly

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EMQ is a quarterly publication out of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center that is perhaps best described as a periodical written by and for missionaries and practitioners of Christian mission. Its articles tend towards the pragmatic and away from the theoretical, in contrast by way of example with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. (more…)

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I was at hand: Amadeus – Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Brilliantly conceived, movingly enacted, grandiose in scope, this epic fiction intertwines the life of the miserable but gifted Mozart with the envious, correct, but ultimately mediocre Antonio Salieri. The result is a showcase of cinematic talent set to the score of some of Mozart’s finest music. (more…)

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getting to know your backyard: Stan Tekiela, Trees of Indiana Field Guide

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These field guides are excellent resources for the novice, whether they treat of fauna like your region’s birds or flora like your trees. This is because they group each specimen visually for easy location: by color for birds and by leave structure for trees.

You can hardly find a better niche for getting a toehold on your Indiana backyard’s critters and trees. (more…)

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