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Review of Marcus Borg's "Putting Away Childish Things"
Published on 2010-08-05 21:23:00
When I received a offer from Harper One to review a free copy of Marcus Borg's new novel, Putting Away Childish Things: A Tale of Modern Faith, I was intrigued.* I have never actually read anything by Borg before, but I've heard a lot about him. Mainly I've heard that he is an almost stereotypical theological liberal - a member of the Jesus Seminar that questions the historical authenticity of the gospels, the physical resurrection of Jesus, and probably his divinity as well. On the other hand,
Favorite Austin Eats
Published on 2010-07-31 23:36:00
My culinary tastes have certainly evolved over the years. When I was a kid, eating out meant McDonalds or Pizza Hut, and those were a pretty dang special treat. Granted, when I was a kid my dad was the manager of a buffet restaurant called Sweden House - akin to an Old Country Buffet - so we actually "ate out" there several times a week. However, we were there so often that it had long since ceased to feel like "eating out." Either way though, the range of my experience was pretty much limited t
Busy Summer
Published on 2010-06-20 21:03:00
You'd think I'd fallen off the face of the planet given how little I post here anymore. It's just that I've been pretty busy since the end of the school year. Since my last post I've taken a mini-vacation down to the Gulf, graduated from Seminary, built a deck, helped my wife put on our church's VBS, and spent lots of time with the kids while Julie works on her next book. All that, combined with all the other projects online and around the house that I want to get done in the next few months, no
