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xscot mcknight
John La Grou and Len Hjalmarson created the idea of a participatory book, and I confess that I’m not all that sure what happens but I confess that you probably do. Anyway, they asked me to write a piece and I chose to write on the impact of blogs and media on book reviewing and…
Vicarious Novel Reading
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xscot mcknight
Regular readers of this blog know that I read novels as often as most of us visit our friendly dentist: Not very often! I’ve admitted to all of you that I try, but it’s about like some TV commentator, after I got to play Tiger Woods at Augusta, saying “Good effort Scot.” I just simply…
Friday is for Friends
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xscot mcknight
We’re back to Jon Wilson’s Why Church Matters, and chp 5 is a fascinating chp. But Jon cheats here — in his section on worship he has included a chp on the pastor. It’s the adjustment of a nice article he wrote elsewhere, and it doesn’t matter to me one hoot — it’s a new…
On Lying
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xscot mcknight
How’s that for a title to a post? Is it ever morally justifiable to lie? This is the question Gilbert Meilaender addresses in the 2d chp of his book The Way That Leads There. Augustine, his sparring partner, says “Never!” And here are Augustine’s five reasons.
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