pickVery good read. Combined from three novellas, this novel was very well written. Learning different doctrinal points through the basis of a book and viewing the learning experience of the different curates was enthralling. While one may say they would never do such a thing as the curates, it's easy to see where they went wrong and how we too could fall into the trap. From liberalism to legalism to orthodox, Giertz certainly captivates his audience.
My mom was given this book by a friend in 2009 when my Poppy went into hospice. She and I both read it. Written by hospice nurses, it was so helpful in understanding what my grandfather was going through in his last days. I have recommended this book often and I cannot recommend it enough.
#BeginsWith
so-soGenerally love Peterson‘s books but this one felt challenging to me right now. Not sure if it was the place I am right now or the book itself. My interest dissolved as I read along to where I was just staring at pages toward the end.
pickI just finished another book. I read this book for #bookishbingo for the prompt “Under 400 Pages” and I‘m counting this book for reading challenges that I‘m participating in this year.
☑️A Book Given To You That You Didn‘t Ask For - #theunreadshelfproject2021
☑️A Book From Your TBR List You Associate With A Favorite Person, Place, Or Thing - #popsugarreadingchallenge2021
Last night after I finished reading The Prom Goer‘s Interstellar Excursion, I decided to do #playyourtbrright to help me decide which book to start next. God‘s Psychiatry is the book I didn‘t want to start next and Tasting The Past is the book that I wanted to read more but I lost this round so I will be starting God‘s Psychiatry next. God‘s Psychiatry is short though so it won‘t take very long for me to read it.
bailedExcellent oatmeal, terrible book. Skim-read for my chaplaincy internship, and the best part was telling my dad about it and critiquing it. Stiff, out-of-date, unhelpful, artificial, feels very corporate consultant-y (which is one of the author's hats, although he's also a minister), and horrendously lacking in even the most basic cultural and racial competency. Avoid at all costs. 🤮
When our personal belief that we are not enough collides with our professional belief that we‘re not doing enough, we can feel like we‘re coming apart at the seams.
As you care for people with your heart wide open, you often don‘t realize how much of what you‘re exposed to is being taken in and held in your body. It isn‘t until later that your body starts to let you know.
Oppression thrives on misunderstanding, alienation, and us/them binaries.
