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While living for 16 years in Costa Rica, my family and I noticed an ever-increasing flow of bronzed surfers through the country’s main airport. Then my sons started to surf.
I figured I’d better pay attention. (more…)
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If you’re just a tad cynical, you might expect that the new MEN’S VOGUE might concentrate on self-possessed metrosexuals covered with Armani, leering at the camera, and wishing they had a life. (more…)
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This self-described ‘Handbook of the American Entrepeneur’ is one fine piece of work. I read it cover to cover upon arrival. (more…)
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Fast Company is a good magazine for the inquisitive entrepeneur, don’t get me wrong.
But it poses a little too much for my tastes. The semi-gloss paper, the unconventional size sheets, the avant-garde graphics, the just slightly off-the-wall article selection … it’s all a convincing fashion statement. (more…)
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Not every publication gets to use the name ‘Harvard’ in their masthead. It’s a perk that comes with the territory and banks on the accumulated legacy of many generations of excellence. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on August 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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This 47-year-old father of two teenage guys is happy that my guys have Breakaway.
This Focus on the Family ‘magazine for teen guys’ covers topics like spirituality, sports, music, gaming, maintaining sexual purity, all from a Christian worldview. (more…)
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For the very sensitive, the sages’ reflections on the paradigmatic foreign woman make for tough reading.
‘It just goes to show you’—the vocabulary of offended morality leaps too easily to the lips—’how bigoted, sexist, and self-excusing religious men can be.’ (more…)
Posted in clarity, reseña on August 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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BoardSource habitually produces short works for non-profit leaders that–once read–leave one wondering how we muddled through without knowing about this resource. This reviewer wonders how they keep up the pace. (more…)
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For about 150 pages, author John Grogan tells rambling dog stories about his Labrador named Marley, leaving his reader to wonder what all the fuss is about with this best-selling book. (more…)
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David Seccombe is the principal of Capetown’s highly regarded George Whitfield College and a New Testament scholar of sturdy reputation. This monumental treatment of Jesus and the kingdom he claimed both to introduce and to rule is able, insightful, faithful, and refreshing. It is a pity to be obligated to recognize that most Jesus scholarship–especially its popular manifestation–falls short of what Seccombe has produced in this book with regard to all four of those cardinal virtues. (more…)
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