August 2011
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How do you evaluate your "leadership style"?
Every week I have a phone call or a face to face meeting with my mentor, a pastor in the area who has more experience than I do and whom I respect. Something that comes up every week is what he will often call a “focus question”, something that I’m supposed to thing about for the week. This week is was:
“What is my leadership style like?”
This came about because...
“I am a scream, looking for a mouth.”
– Hubert Selby Jr.
Book Closing: Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert...
When you start “Last Exit to Brooklyn”, you’re suddenly struck with the notion that you, yourself have gotten off on an unfamiliar exit. The writing itself is odd - paragraphs that are nothing more than drops down to the next line, a lack of quotation marks and apostrophes, and the subject matter - drugs, transvestites, and violence - they all give you this feeling that...
Do you have integrity?
Series : Pentecost...
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How do you pronounce faith?
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“There’s something inside us that’s so hideous and monstrous that if...”
– Hubert Selby Jr
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Book Opening: Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert...
The other night I watched “Requiem for a Dream” for the first time and thought to myself, “I wonder how the book was written.” So I looked up the author of “Requiem for a Dream” and saw that quite a few people had recommended Selby’s other book, “Last Exit to Brooklyn.”
I’m kind of looking for another “Palahniuk” author who...
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Do you see what is...