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Super interesting future world: expansive, detailed and yet recognizably human. Technology is driving change, and yet characters remain determinative. Long. Very long. But so far still eager to keep turning pages…

Space opera indeed—an immense world. Feels like James Corey and Isaac Asimov had a baby.

“It is always tempting for the church to accomplish what we perceive as God’s ends through worldly means.”

Excerpt From
Power in Weakness
Timothy G. Gombis

There is more to this than I expected. Reflective and careful, conversing widely with a host of important thinkers, this book has taken over my thoughts and conversations this week. A great challenge, so important for our current cultural moment.

Insightful and challenging. Goes nicely with James K. Smith. An important read for always connected age

Such a fascinating world. The historical twist is fun, though this 3rd outing is not quite as good as that thrilling first book.

“The truth of the gospel is intrinsically incarnate. It is not abstract, but concrete, and it takes a physical company of the gospel to communicate it. It is hard to act out love for one’s enemies in a one-man show. It takes a company.’

High “silkpunk” from the translator of The Three Body Problem. A fascinating world, well-formed and deep. So far still echoing first century China, but seemingly less bound to that timeline than the very different Poppy Wars trilogy.

Half as good as Kurt Vonnegut plus half as good as Douglas Adams does not equal one amazing book. Clever, fun, and silly—if derivative. A quirky sendup of 2020 America. With aliens.

“A great irony in the history of contemporary worship is that many of its roots are in liturgical traditions that value extemporaneity in worship although its development is toward closer management of time.”

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary worship? Dependence on electricity: worshipping in a black box means no electricity = no lights, no screens, no voice or instrument amplification.

Van Til for the new millennium, by way of Marilynne Robinson, George MacDonald, and Charles Taylor? ‘Bout time.

Umm, isn’t Nikara just 1820s China? I mean, 科举, honestly. Waiting for the fantasy bit to kick in…