pick(2014) This is a bird's-eye intellectual history of American evangelicalism. Worthen argues that its history exposes a crisis (crises?) of authority, in searches for answers on faith vs. reason; relationship to Jesus; and public faith. Not sure I followed the grand argument, and am unsure that it applies uniquely to evangelicals. But I loved the history, which filled gaps and connected dots for ex-evangelical me
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#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin reads for August: an academic work on the American evangelical movement; and a decidedly unacademic mystery involving my favorite detectives ever.
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It‘s time for book two!!
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"For the director trailed plumes of emerald dust and behind her the nature of the world was changing, filling with a brightness, the rain losing its depth, its darkness. The thickness of the layers of the rain getting lost, taken away, no longer there.
The border was coming to the Southern Reach."
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pickTrue story of a manhunt in the mountains of Montana. Modern day western sheriff tracks kidnapper and murderer for months. Shows how different law enforcement is in the rural west.
