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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Look, we don’t know each other. I may be an inveterate exaggerator, right? I might give all fives on my Amazon reviews. I might detest conflict and only say nice things about books.

You don’t know, do you? Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

For some of us who are trying to get our weight where it ought to be, it’s worthwhile to pay a little more to buy into a system.

That’s what the South Beach Diet offers, in addition to an intelligent take on educating its practitioners about nutrition. Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

As is the case with other South Beach Diet products, you pay for the system. If you want one less thing to think about as you make war with the Fat Monster, Kraft’s South Beach diet may be an ally you’ll want to engage. Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

As is the case with other South Beach Diet products, you pay for the system. If you want one less thing to think about as you make war with the Fat Monster, Kraft’s South Beach diet may be an ally you’ll want to engage. Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.

But not this time. Continue Reading »

The apostle Paul’s comprehension of grace is supported by a complex reading of the patriarchal narratives. Abraham figures both as the protagonist of the story and the paradigmatic ‘first believer’. For Paul, the redemptive drama begins nearly two thousand years before Christ and extends into his own time. Continuity is provided by the nature of human faith, which is the same throughout the story.

That is, Abraham’s faith and faith in Jesus are cut from the same cloth. This faith is the human instrument that appropriates the generosity of God towards receptive humankind.

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Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.

But not this time. Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

In the spiritually searching 1970’s of my adolescence, two men and a guitar burst onto the nascent Christian music scene with an enigmatic one-word label and a strange penchant for lapsing into Hebrew.

These guys were ‘Lamb’. They brought to their musical genre a Messianic Jewish angle that now seems almost commonplace, but which at the time was anything but that. As a teenager, I was taken by the deep currents of biblical ideas, biblical feeling, and biblical language that interpenetrated their music. Continue Reading »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

GQ is a publication that merits the adjective ‘legendary’. As a frontrunner in its genre, it takes potshots from many angles but – one thinks of Mercedes-Benz or Oxford University – keeps on doing well what it does well. (This reviewer drives a Ford and attended Cambridge, so I’m trying to be generous here …)

GQ is actually several magazines bound into one. Continue Reading »

Hector Berlioz missed the memo on the KISS Rule (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

It’s a good thing, that. Even better is the presence of conductors like the supremely attentive John Nelson, who give themselves and their formidable talents to works that might otherwise languish in abandonment, too far off the beat track for markets and beancounters to pay atttention. Continue Reading »