“And that’s the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.” This statement follows 13 illustrated pages of a story about sexy carrots. You really need to look at the book to understand, but this is another good reason I never would have found this book in […]
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I have to tell you that Don comes off as a bit of a political and religious lefty, so we disagree on a few things, but that’s not what this is about. A number of times he diffused my frustration by stopping just short of rhetoric while relaying stories like the following about a […]
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Wikipedia gives us a good start:
Blue Like Jazz is the second book by Donald Miller. This semi-autobiographical work, subtitled “Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality,” is a collection of essays and personal reflections chronicling the author’s growing understanding of the nature of God and Jesus, and the need and responsibility for an authentic personal response to […]
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I like reading “classic” books, and by that mean books like The Catcher in the Rye and more recent books like Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. One reason for this is that many people have read them and so there is a great amount cultural currency about them. Great works of art stay […]
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“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18:14
Last spring I read Donald Miller’s book Blue Like Jazz. Miller is a wonderful storyteller who weaves humorous, and sometimes sad, personal stories with the insight he gains along the way. One such insight had to […]
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