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Finally giving this one the slow, close read it demands and deserves.

Breathtaking.

So far, this book is rekindling a history of negativity, elitism, and exclusivism I don't care to revive. At this point, every topic is utterly predictable. And these feelings come despite my daily prayer that God allow me to look past the author's tone and extract only what He wants me to glean.

The titular essay alone may well make reading through this collection worth the journey.

This is a Jonathan Franzen novel?!

Starting this one on a flight to MUC.

One of the most refreshing (and hilarious) religious books I've ever read!

"The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark" (161).

"There is no complete life. Only fragments" (35).

"He longs for the one line to give [his children] that they will always remember, that will embrace everything, that will point the way, but he cannot find the line, he cannot recognize it" (45).