My Christmas Reading List
I'm boycotting the Olympics.
Yep, you read that correctly. It's not that I'm surprised the IOC awarded the games to Beijing, just that I fundamentally disagree with their choice.
China has a horrible human rights record. They censor everything they can and lock people up just because they don't agree with the Party line. The street sweeping operations have put more Christians in jail than the world will ever realize - only because the Chinese doesn't want any "disruptions". We have long forgotten Tiananmen Square and the shock of the world at the outcome.
Anyway, I'm doing some reading I've needed to catch up on since Christmas.
First off, I'm picking up Frederick Buechner's compilation "Listening to Your Life"
It's a wonderful little daily meditation on such things as Avarice, Darkness, Jobs, Wine, Limitations, Today, Myth, Sunset, Friends, Boredom, and Virtue. Today's read is "Alcoholics Anonymous".
One of the others is John Calvin's Institutes of Christian Religion
It's one of those books I just feel the need to read since I haven't ever read both volumes completely.
Another is John Owen's The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
It was a gift that I've started a dozen times and fallen away from as many times because of the 1677 eloquence found in the prose (that's my story and I'm stickin' to it).
I also hope to finish The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol 2 since I'm almost done with it - that will mean both volumes, although it's taken me 3+ years to accomplish that feat.
I also hope to kick start my photography thing by starting to post some stock photography to some agencies to see if I can begin the road to success and maybe transition into it within the next {cough, sputter} years.
Yep, you read that correctly. It's not that I'm surprised the IOC awarded the games to Beijing, just that I fundamentally disagree with their choice.
China has a horrible human rights record. They censor everything they can and lock people up just because they don't agree with the Party line. The street sweeping operations have put more Christians in jail than the world will ever realize - only because the Chinese doesn't want any "disruptions". We have long forgotten Tiananmen Square and the shock of the world at the outcome.
Anyway, I'm doing some reading I've needed to catch up on since Christmas.
First off, I'm picking up Frederick Buechner's compilation "Listening to Your Life"
It's a wonderful little daily meditation on such things as Avarice, Darkness, Jobs, Wine, Limitations, Today, Myth, Sunset, Friends, Boredom, and Virtue. Today's read is "Alcoholics Anonymous".
One of the others is John Calvin's Institutes of Christian Religion
It's one of those books I just feel the need to read since I haven't ever read both volumes completely.
Another is John Owen's The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
It was a gift that I've started a dozen times and fallen away from as many times because of the 1677 eloquence found in the prose (that's my story and I'm stickin' to it).
I also hope to finish The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol 2 since I'm almost done with it - that will mean both volumes, although it's taken me 3+ years to accomplish that feat.
I also hope to kick start my photography thing by starting to post some stock photography to some agencies to see if I can begin the road to success and maybe transition into it within the next {cough, sputter} years.
posted by Raymond at Friday, August 08, 2008
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