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a glossy take on wine for the amateur and the expert: Wine Spectator

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The Wine Spectator is one of those magazines designed to reassure you that you’re rich or that you soon could be, all in the context of a shared love for the fruit of the vine. (more…)

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Oliver Stone does the right thing: World Trade Center (DVD)

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This movie should join Spielberg’s Schindler’s List and Munich—as well as Hotel Rwanda, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and perhaps El Norte —as required ID for the historically literate American. No drinks without a card. No driver’s license, no graduation party, no nuthin’. (more…)

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good acting, mediocre film: Lady in the Water

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Be sure you’re wide awake when you go to see this film, because you’ll need to stay alert and attentive to get your money’s worth. (more…)

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The Wall Street Journal of the neo-evangelical movement: Christianity Today

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In some circles, to arrive at the office without having read the Wall Street Journal is like turning up in your boxer shorts and a sneaker. In other circles, the same can be said of CT, as it is known to regular readers, who include virtually everyone of influence in the evangelical movement in America. (more…)

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No need to go it alone: Nonprofit Quarterly

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The task of managing an institution in the nonprofit sector is by definition challenging. In fact, it often leads to career extinction and personal burnout. (more…)

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hell in a handbasket: W. E. B. Griffin, Retreat, Hell! (Corps)

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W.E.B. Griffin’s novelistic account of the Korean Conflict in 1950 teaches even as it entertains. Douglas Macarthur—who is still revered as the hero his president wouldn’t listen to by many South Koreans—is primed for glory, but has to deny the massive Chinese presence that awaits his troops if he’s going to get there. (more…)

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light and sound: Tabletalk

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The story is told of the Christian Reformer Martin Luther that he habitually gathered his large family and a collection of personal disciples together around his table for nourishing food and pious conversation. So was born the tradition of ‘table talk’, a form of Christian teaching that is anchored to the daily rhythms of family and community life. (more…)

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a trade journal for a hidden growth industry: International Bulletin of Missionary Research

Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, reseña, tagged , , , on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Christian faith has always been centrifugal, rarely containable, and viscerally cross-cultural. The mission of the Christian Church is therefore expansive, intentionally persuasive, and usually outward-looking. (more…)

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No one knows him better: Martin Gilbert, Churchill. A Life (audiocasette), Part 1 of 3

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No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, than Martin Gilbert.

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No one knows him better: Martin Gilbert, Churchill. A Life

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , , , , on August 29, 2007| 2 Comments »

No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, better than Martin Gilbert.

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