What I’m Into January 2013

 

Miscellaneous Neat Things

I love this sermon, and this is is just a great idea by Morgan:

Danceable Homiletics #3: The Sting (featuring Greg Boyd)

Kid President Pep Talk

My Obama Year

 Text Is Beautiful

Global Table Adventure

Moonrise Kingdom Illustrated Screenplayamazing!!! You can download the pdf.

Facebook Data Provide The Most Accurate NFL Fandom Map Ever Created

Movies:

Skin – a true, heartbreaking story that occurred in South Africa during Apartheid.

Les Miserables – this was my first time seeing the story and it was amazing.

Lincoln – this was way better than I thought, and I didn’t realize it was mostly about the amendment, and not his whole presidency.  I was struck by how difficult it was to get one piece of justice accomplished.

 

Music

New music I’ve discovered, thanks to recommendations of friends and ease of Spotify:

Ashley Chambliss

The Lone Bellow

Kev Rowe

Ari Hest

 

Posts I liked enough to share on my personal FB wall

Rethinking Modesty

Dan and Me: My Coming Out as a Friend of Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A

 Betty Friedan did not kill home cooking

Life skills all teens should have before graduating from high school

Fan death in Korea, the dangers of wearing red in the Philippines, and other momisms from around the world.

The Best Coffee Mugs for Book Lovers

The Deeper Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: We Are Not Allowed to Use It

Former NFL QB Jon Kitna finds ‘gold mine’ at his troubled old high school

We are the Reason They Don’t Believe (and only Megan Fox Can Save Us Now)

If Downton Abbey was on Facebook – episode recaps.  Hilarious!!

Books

Books I finished:

N.T. Wright, The Kingdom New Testament. (a few chunks of it anyway – want to own this one)

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation by Frederick Buechner

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief – Francis S. Collins

The Hole in the Gospel – Richard Stearns

7 Habits of Highly Effective Families – Covey

God of the Empty-Handed – Jayakumar Christian

The One Big Thing – Phil Cooke

 

What I’m reading right now:

Saving Darwin (I think this book is going to finish me off.  I wasn’t going to write much about my diving into the evolution/creation debate, but this book has already shocked me in what I didn’t know, that I might end up talking about it later this spring.)

The Language of Science and Faith, some John Green novels (after seeing him recommended everywhere), and Help, Thanks, Wow.

And, of course, Inspiration and Incarnation.  Today kicks off the fabulous book club, Reading in Transit, headed up by Kelley Nikondeha.  Come read with us, and discuss your thoughts in blog posts or on twitter, using the hashtag #transitlounge.  You can also get a twitter widget using the hashtag, so that people can follow along on your site.  (See it at the bottom of my blog.)  At the end of the month, we’re going to be hosting a synchroblog so we can all post our thoughts and ideas.

There is also a button for it, feel free to download it and use it on your own site.  

 

Linking up with Leigh!
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4 Comments

  1. Kelley Nikondeha February 1, 2013 at 11:02 am

    Caris – what did you think of Now & Then? I love his writing, but this one is so sentimental for me I cannot even pretend to be objective! Thanks for the book club promo… hope more friends join us for what we’re into for Feb.

  2. Caris Adel February 1, 2013 at 11:03 am

    I loved it. There were so many quotes I wanted to write down….and forgot to 😛 But I want to buy it. I think I’m going to try and read a lot of his books this year and let him mentor me. It was seriously so good. I don’t know how he can think like that. He talked about the Alphabet of Grace book and I think that’s next for me to read from him.

  3. HopefulLeigh February 1, 2013 at 12:43 pm

    Which John Green novels are you reading? I’ve read two so far. Such an interesting author. I really want to see Lincoln but I’m hopelessly behind on movie watching. Great music recommendations!

    Thanks for linking up!

  4. Caris Adel February 1, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    I think you were one of the ones I saw talking about them. Looking for Alaska and PaperTowns. They look interesting, and can’t be too hard of a read. I actually almost bawled in Lincoln, which, hello, I know how it ends. But the way he did it…..ugh. It was heartbreaking.

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