From my podcast of the same name. Today we’re talking about pivotal or defining moments in our lives. Singular or plural. Have you ever experienced one? If so, was it painful or exhilarating? How did it change you? Maybe you’ve never labeled your aha moments as such—pivotal—but we all have moments where our vision has […]
What 10 Books Have Influenced How You Look At the World?
We have winners for the two up-for-grab issues of Books & Culture, May/June 2010 issue! Renae and Lindsey. Congratulations, you two! If you’ll e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com and provide me with your addresses, I shall send them straightaway. Happiest of reading to you. John Wilson, my editor at Books & Culture, […]
Good Friday Questions
At the end of yesterday’s post, Bing in Birmingham posted a list of questions, which I will attempt to answer today in a VERY LONG post. They’re biggies. Are you ready? The questions are in bold, if you want to skip any of them. [And Bing, I, too, like Clare, have quoted from the Bible, […]
Misquoting Jesus
As promised, I’ve finished Misquoting Jesus, Bart Ehrman’s prelude to Jesus, Interrupted, which I’ve already blogged about in a previous post here. What a fascinating read–a little drier than Jesus, Interrupted–but still, fascinating! I won’t pretend to know the actual truth of Ehrman’s comments, because I do not know Greek and Hebrew (and Latin), which […]
Jesus, Interrupted
Silly me. Not only did I forget to charge up my Kindle 2 before our CA trip (so it was dead on the flight out), but I also forgot my jump drive with my blog loaded on it, so five days from now, you’re going to discover five days of information suddenly uploaded to the […]