6 days ago by Travis Tamerius

When I was at graduate school at Regent College, I was lucky enough to have an independent study with Eugene Peterson. I suggested to him what I wanted to study – the narrative shape of pastoral life – and he asked me what books I would include in such a study. I asked him to pick the books out, int ...

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11 days ago by Travis Tamerius

Ahead of The Road’s November 25 film release, the NY Times has a wide-ranging interview with the author Cormac McCarthy. In the interview he discusses the creative process, the back story to some of his books, his thoughts on the human future, the presence of beauty and goodness in a world out of so ...

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35 days ago by Travis Tamerius

Over the past year, our church has been studying the life of King David. David has always been a fascinating and complex figure. The stories which have been preserved describe him as both a warrior and poet; a Don Corleone godfather and a pious, sweet singer of psalms. At times, he is thoughtful and ...

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86 days ago by Ranger1138

I’ll say this upfront. There is nothing wrong with the Victor Reader Stream. It is a good unit, well designed and it has some great features. For me, however, I found that there were some things about the Book Sense that were more appealing to the type of user that I am. So if you choose to stay wit ...

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100 days ago by Travis Tamerius

My friend Scott Cairns has authored a new book entitled The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain. Its sudden appearance in the mail was timely: I had just been reading about the “protest theism” of writers like Twain and Melville and was preparing for the funeral of one of my uncles. The small ...

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102 days ago by Travis Tamerius

“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book – a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown asi ...

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129 days ago by Travis Tamerius

When we have drunk our tea, Mum reads to me. I lie on the cot under the army alphabet chart. She reads C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lucy is in the land where it will never be summer, snow crunches underfoot. The sultry afternoon, pale with light-washing sun and the faint hum of ...

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141 days ago by Travis Tamerius

A theme has appeared in conversations of late – the availability of resources worldwide and the kind of living (individually and socially) that maximizes the well-being of all. A few days ago Caleb asked me, “what would happen to Africa if no one did anything to help them?” We discussed basic econom ...

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142 days ago by Travis Tamerius

This summer I’ve been reading up on how new technologies are changing the way we learn and live. I’ve been weighing the different viewpoints, from critics who warn of how these new technologies are diminishing certain important capacities (higher order thinking, sustained concentration, social skill ...

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145 days ago by Ron Graham

I’ve been using and loving my Victor Reader Stream since late February of last year. I’ve been hooked on it since day one. The reason I believe this quickly became Humanware’s best-selling product of all time is that they provided a tool that was needed at a time when it was needed most. And, they d ...

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