Evangelicals are often perceived as being against gay people and quick to lecture about how they’re living in sin. Lee explains the church has failed in its responsibility to extend Christ’s love to gays and lesbians. One side shouts, “More truth” the other side, “More love.” Is there a solution to this impasse? For Lee, the answer is more love. On the one side are Christians who espouse the traditional view of sexuality, and on the other are Christians who believe homosexual sex is not inherently sinful. The premise of Torn is that the gays-vs.-Christians cultural debate is tearing apart the church not externally, but internally. Lee identifies as an evangelical who believes the gospel, which is “a personal relationship with Jesus and salvation through his death and resurrection.” Currently, he’s the founder and executive director of a nonprofit organization called The Gay Christian Network. In Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate, Justin Lee recounts his journey from being raised in a loving, two-parent, Southern Baptist home where he was convinced that the Bible clearly condemned homosexual sex, to now believing that God blesses same-sex unions.
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The reimaginings of some of the traditional Batman villains are hit or miss. <-which I thought were awesome, by the way. They have good times, they have bad times.Īnd while it isn't a terrible story by any means, it's just not all that meaty or engaging once you strip away the visuals. So you gotta suspend disbelief for the first few pages.īecause, of course, as soon as Joker gets in the car, he immediately goes on a (rather gory) crime spree.Īnd then everything is pretty much a bland(ish) tale of this nutty gangster with a fucked-up face doing nutty gangster stuff for no discernable reason, whilst toting this scuzzy narrating thug along for the ride of his scuzzy life. That's not how Law and Order works.Īlright. Ok, even if they somehow 'cured' a psychopath of his psychotic tendencies, you do not just get a free fucking pass to test out your newfound sanity on the streets. The book seems to be a more realistic crime tale than a superhero comic, and the tone would fit just about any gritty cop show on tv.ĮXCEPT for the part about why the hell Joker is roaming around a free man. The next few weeks or so is told through the eyes of this low-level thug who volunteered to pick him up. <-what the actual fuck? That's not science.Īnyway. The gist is that Joker gets released from prison because he's 'not crazy' anymore. Plotwise, I thought this was kind of overrated. The truly remarkable thing is that when the two met at Cambridge before the First World War Wittgenstein was a novice, Russell a mature and respected professor of philosophy, the author with A. Most who followed, particularly the Vienna School of Logical Positivists, which had as good a claim as any to be the apostles of the text, could not understand him.īertrand Russell, who wrote a preface for the Tractatus, could not understand his brilliant protégée. “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him”, he wrote in the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations. Most of his life after the publication of the Tractatus was a pursuit of the very things that could not be touched on in a work of uncompromising logic, whether it be the nature of language, the way language is used in practical terms, the nature of thought, of ethics, of psychology, of the relationship of philosophy to the wider world of human experience. There you will find in all of its gnomic beauty one of the best remembered and most quoted propositions of all: Whereof we cannot speak thereof we must be silent. If you want to understand Ludwig Wittgenstein, the thinker and the man, turn to the very last page of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only philosophical work published in his lifetime. Her earliest influences as a teenage reader were Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker mixed with the romance of Hammer Horror and the visceral violence of the first wave of video nasties. Carmilla grew up on a varied diet of horror. When not writing, she gets paid to hang out in a stately home and entertain tourists. A life-long Goth, she is passionate about horror, the alt scene, intersectional feminism, art, nature and animals. Indeed, my most cutting criticism of horror is when it takes harmful tropes and perpetuates them ad nauseam.Ĭarmilla Voiez is a proudly bisexual and mildly autistic introvert who finds writing much easier than verbal communication. I’d like to introduce Guest Blogger Carmilla Voiez who is going to talk about something pretty important to me as a horror critic… bad stereotypes. Some developments that happen in Bane are referenced, but not in any great detail, which means the reader should only encounter a few very broad, non-specific spoilers. How far post- Bane ? Well, you’ll have to read and see. Over the course of the Bane blog tour, I’ll be sharing a free post- Bane short story, Refuge. Altogether, it gave me a beautiful opportunity to bring closure and an HEA ending (or at least as close to one as you get at the end of the world) for both sets of protagonists. The plot also required Rhys to have matured a great deal since the end of Strain. They needed developments that would only make sense to happen after the events of Strain. Already by that point I was brainstorming the pre- and peri-apocalyptic story that would become Juggernaut, but the further along I got on that, the more I realized the situation Zach and Nico were in couldn’t be r esolved in the timeframe of Juggernaut. I don’t think it’s any secret that a lot of readers, in the wake of reading Strain, wanted more of Darius and Rhys. Not to mention his ability to talk dirty so easily. He takes over Sean Bell and becomes him, his inflections and tone makes the character come to life. Jacob Morgan is beyond the perfect narrator. I want to throw my phone against a wall and I want to cradle it against my chest. The intense love I have for this book is SO DUCKING HARD. This series toys with sin and I don’t know if it’s the authors words or the underlying wrongness, but the dirty, dirty scenes were overwhelming and so body melting that not even a/c can cool the desire during this listen. The chemistry between Sean and Zenny was so palpable that you can feel the tension. But it would be impossible not to mention the incredibly dirty mind that Sierra Simone has. The topics that are presented and laid out are so intriguing and keeps your mind and your heart working and involved in a way that makes this book impossible to turn off. How I even begin to review a book so smart, emotional, intense and yet so incredibly filthy? Sean Bell’s inner dialogue takes you on a journey through his mind that compels you to rethink your own takes on religion and faith. A Moveable Feast is fascinating despite being in love with french culture (yeah, I'm not), and I don't think it could have been better without Hemingway's very own point of view. The best things often come from somewhere inside. His work is ultimately a monument to the place he occupied among his friend and yet, he gives you such a close and generous look on his inner circle of friends. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the globalization of food over the past ten thousand years. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. You can gain amazing perspective on your situation and on your productions, reading about how so many great writers came to know and appreciate each other and to go on to know immense success. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. But it's still a valuable read for anybody who likes the lost generation or is a struggling writer. French expressions, lengthy descriptions, it breaks the pace if you're not into it. If you're not INTO Paris and french culture, you might get rebutted by all the french-o-philia going on. Hemingway's descriptions are often long and detailed about the life in street cafés. A Moveable Feast is a lot about Paris and a lot about what it is, to be a struggling writer. We must rise up in collective action and resist each recurring wave, over and over and over again. But Camus warned his readers of complacency: Pathogens like totalitarianism, racism or mindless opportunism won’t disappear for good. Like all pestilences, the plague eventually runs its course. What does it feel like to be suddenly cut off from nature and the world, beleaguered by an invisible bacillus and condemned to endless apathy? And, more importantly, what to do in such a nightmarish situation? Albert Camus, inspired by historical accounts of plague outbreaks and his experience during the Resistance in Nazi-occupied France, answered that timeless question in The Plague: Get up and do something useful together! The novel tells of a group of men who don’t even try to make sense of a meaningless disease, but instead establish hygiene standards, isolate and care for the sick, develop a cure and hope for the best. The tenacity and grit part of that upbringing has served me, but I wasn’t taught how to deal with uncertainty or how to manage emotional risk. I was raised in a “get ‘er done” and “suck it up” family and culture (very Texan, German-American). Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. In this interview, she talks about how she's been able to embrace her own vulnerability, shares a story of an entrepreneur who dared greatly to achieve success, and explains how vulnerability really works in our society and more.įrom your experience, what were the obstacles in embracing your own vulnerability? When did you realize that you needed to do it? She is also the author of The Gifts of Imperfection, I Thought It Was Just Me, and Connections. Brené’s 2010 TEDx Houston talk, The Power of Vulnerability, is one of the top ten most viewed TED talks in the world. Vansittart’s novels span eras from 2000 British Columbia to AD 1986. He died on Octoat Ipswich Hospital aged 88. After living in London for much of his life, Vansittart moved to Suffolk to a house inherited from his mother. He worked as a schoolteacher at progressive schools - most notably Burgess Hill School, Hampstead - for 25 years before becoming a full-time writer He wrote a novel about his time as a schoolteacher called Broken Canes. He was a distant cousin of Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 19. He received an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2008 for his services to literature. He also wrote historical studies, memoirs, stories for children and three anthologies: Voices from the Great War (his most popular book), Voices 1870-1914 and Voices of the Revolution. |