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Love Your Enemies, by Arthur Brooks

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can’t think of a more timely book than this one; or a book that could … Continue reading

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The Message of Lamentations, by Christopher Wright

The Message of Lamentations by Christopher J.H. Wright My rating: 5 of 5 stars During this Lenten season my scripture reading guide took me through the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations. To get more out of my reading, I read … Continue reading

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First Fruits of Prayer

First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew by Frederica Mathewes-Green My rating: 4 of 5 stars Praying through the Canon of St. Andrew has been a blessed experience for me during Lent. This … Continue reading

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The Downward Ascent by Edna Hatlestad Hong

The Downward Ascent by Edna Hatlestad Hong My rating: 5 of 5 stars This little book is among the best Lenten reading that I have found. Edna Hong wrote this in response to overhearing a clergyman’s opinion that the season … Continue reading

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Lower Lights Ministries

On Thursday night I attended a mentor orientation meeting for Project AIM (Achieving Independence through Mentoring), a new project being started by Lower Lights Ministries in Franklinton on the near west side of Columbus. The meeting was at Bellows Avenue … Continue reading

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History Written By the Winners?

A recent conversation with a coworker about my seminary studies of history brought to mind the cliché “History is written by the winners.” I think this was the point he was trying to make with me without saying it in … Continue reading

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