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no word less deconstructible than hope: Walter Brueggemann, Ichabod Toward Home. The Journey of Gods Glory

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This is not Walter Brueggemann’s best book. Still, it is the measure of this man’s perceptive insight that a lecture series at Princeton Theological Seminary with off-the-cuff roughnessess still evident can make for the kind of compelling reading that merely fine writers are fortunate to achieve once or twice in a career. (more…)

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keep it simple: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. A Leadership Fable

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Patrick Lencioni writes stories. Lots of them.

He calls them `fables’. `Leadership fables’, to be precise. It’s a growing genre in business publications, perhaps a sign that such writers and their editors and marketers have caught on to the power of narrative to make a point that often comes across as dry and abstract when it’s treated, well, dryly and abstractly. (more…)

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no other option: fix the problem: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Leadership Fable

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Following his success with The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and the The Five Temptations of a CEO, management consultant Pat Lencioni turns his observant eye to the team and its dynamic interrelationship. The results are outstanding. (more…)

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a contrarian must read for biblical scholars who assume too much: Jon D. Levenson, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism. Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

These six collected essays from one of biblical scholarship’s leading thoughtful curmudgeons prove beyond doubt that unexamined assumptions corrode the core of the enterprise of biblical scholarship in the secular academy. That they come from the pen of a Jewish scholar teaching at one of liberal Protestantism’s foremost shrines (Harvard Divinity School) is only the first irony that Levenson explores here with contrarian zeal. Readers who believe in the craft—whether naively or upon reflection—will find Levenson’s articles an unsettling and necessary read. (more…)

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possibly Brueggemann’s best work: Walter Brueggemann, The Land. Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 7, 2007| 7 Comments »

Though this may be the best of Walter Brueggemann’s many books, it is not a work for the faint of heart. Brueggemann’s prose sometimes seems to overtake his meaning. One wonders at times-Brueggemann himself might say-whether there is a surfeit of meaning in this text that eludes immediate penetration, or simply a surplus of words. (more…)

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the quiet sport: Fly Fisherman magazine

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, turning the fly, tagged , , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

One of the endearing features of the monthly magazine Fly Fisherman is its tag line: ‘the leading magazine of the quiet sport’. (more…)

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finding your way to the right college or university: Barron’s Educational Series, Profiles of American Colleges with CD-ROM (Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges)

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Guides to colleges tend to convey either statistical reportage derived from the college itself or anecdotal subjectivity provided by the school’s students and other constituencies.

The Barron’s Guides lean strongly in the first of these two directions. (more…)

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Maybe we should send little Johnny to that one: Princeton Review, Best 357 Colleges, 2005 Edition (College Admissions Guides)

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The Princeton Review Best 357 Colleges is a fun read.

Whether it’s an accurate selection of the 357 best or a clear portrayal of what the chosen few have to offer is another matter. It’s impossible to tell, though the valuable commentary you get in the Princeton Review is a good supplement to factual date you can get from the schools in question and from other sources. (more…)

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Hannukah and Christmas every day: Seinfeld. Seasons 1, 2 and 3 (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on August 31, 2007| 2 Comments »

I was living in England when Seinfeld was in its third or fourth season, blissfully unaware of what people were talkabout with this ‘Seinfeld’ thing when I read in a magazine that you’d have to be hidden in a remote corner of the Amazon to not be into this show. I obviously was in a more inhabited and arguably more sophisticated place than Amazonian corners tend to be, so I tuned in.

Actually, my wife, two boys, and I tuned in.

Good grief, did we get hooked! (more…)

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Sally’s book: Sally Stuart, Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2006. The Reference Tool for the Christian Writer (Christian Writers’ Market Guide)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

I attended a Christian Writer’s Conference two years ago, a dizzying initiation into the subculture that produces much of the written material that American (at least) Christians read.

There I heard reverential references to Sally Stuart’s annual publication and dutifully picked up my copy at the bookstand. (more…)

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