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rrhythmia: the habit of being really mad

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, rrythmia, textures on August 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »

For a Latin American woman, this is the worse place to be.

Marta’s husband was a respected professional. He had cultivated a career in one of Costa Rica’s government agencies and grown accustomed to the perks that go with it. He was affable, smooth, and just handsome enough to get through doorways and into hearts without appearing to push. His salary was enough to provide for some extra help in taking care of their mentally handicapped daughter, though not to relieve Marta of most of the extra burdens that little Anita brought to her life. (more…)

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Touchdown!: David Halberstam, The Education of a Coach

Posted in clarity, paterfamilias, reseña on August 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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When David Halberstam stops writing about sports–God delay the day–he will go down as one of the great English-language sportswriters of all time. Rarely does a writer on serious topics, and he writes on sport as a most serious enterprise, excel in such varied genres as political history (‘The Best and the Brightest’) and sport. (more…)

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pragmatic, uneven, essential: Evangelical Missions Quarterly

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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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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the hunger for more: Stephen Stoeker and Fred Arterburn, Everyman’s Battle – Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time

Posted in clarity, denkschrift on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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I review this book with mixed motives. On the one hand, sexual addiction is so devastating to men and those who love them that almost any assault mounted on its impregnable fortress is worthy of applause. After all, the public leaders with whom I work and whose downfall resounds so loudly are grateful for almost any weapon they can add to their armament. (more…)

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dust to dust: The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (DVD)

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña on July 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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This brilliant series of interviews with Robert McNamara should be required viewing for anyone before he or she is authorized to venture an opinion regarding what America should or should not do with its power. I do not begin my review because of any clear sense of the virtue or villainy of Bob McNamara’s legacy as president of the Ford Motor Company, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and long-time president of the World Bank. (more…)

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not (just) a pretty face: Home Business Magazine

Posted in clarity, reseña on July 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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Don’t be put off by Home Business magazine’s crammed look and its heavy advertisement content.

‘Fact is, you get what you pay for. These features are what make this small-article publication cheap and easy to come by. (more…)

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one piece of the puzzle: Business 2.0

Posted in clarity, reseña on July 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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If you’re serious about monitoring business and entrepeneurial action and your budget allows, you need to be looking at a broad menu of business magazines. This requires discernment about what topics to spend time with and which ones to skip over because another rag already got you up to speed. (more…)

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James Chien Zo and Missiology

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei on July 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »

James Chien Zo digs below the surface of intercultural contact in a fascinating contribution to Missiology: An International Review that draws from his own Asian-American immigrant experience (XXXII/1, 2004). In fact, he hints at his agonies by way of the ‘r’ word:

The most unequally treated people in America are not any one particular ethnic or gender group, but the immigrants. Because of their inability to survive in the mainstream, the Chinese immigrants are often labeled as racists by the equality activists, and most painfully, also by their own children.

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