November 23, 2010No Ordinary PeopleWhile sitting in a limo in Manhattan wondering if she is overdressed for the party, Jeannette Walls looks out the window and spots her homeless mom rummaging through garbage in an alley. Walls’ astonishing memoir, The Glass Castle, begins here and then chronicles a childhood in which alcohol, dysfunction and bad choices conspired to keep her whole family The book contains one incredible episode after another of pain, hardship and disappointment. Yet one that struck me the most took place after Jeannette had scraped together enough funds to go to college. There she took a course from a professor she enjoyed who began teaching about the effects of economic and social forces on people. Continue reading "No Ordinary People"Posted by Andy Le Peau
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November 17, 2010The Importance of What You Don't PublishSometimes what a publisher doesn’t publish is just as important as what it does publish. Continue reading "The Importance of What You Don't Publish"Posted by Andy Le Peau
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November 10, 2010To Change the World 5: Seeking the Common GoodJames Davison Hunter tells us, in To Change the World, that the political frameworks of the Christian Right, the Christian Left and the neo-Anabaptists are inherently defective. Is there another option besides these three, which Hunter reframes as “defense against,” “relevance to” and “purity from” the culture? What’s his solution? Continue reading "To Change the World 5: Seeking the Common Good"Posted by Andy Le Peau
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November 3, 2010To Change the World 4: Three Choices Both the SameOften I have wondered in frustration, Why does everything seem so politicized? Why are the extremes the only apparent option? Where are the sober, even-handed, reasoned, moderate alternatives? Continue reading "To Change the World 4: Three Choices Both the Same"Posted by Andy Le Peau
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