The Wake Up Call –
18 December 2012
Like the smell of strong coffee wafting down the hall, we offer a few book-related thoughts and stories to jumpstart your day…
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Check our lists of the BEST and WORST (Christian) Book Covers of 2012:
- Best Book Covers – https://englewoodreview.org/best-book-covers-of-2012/
- Worst Christian Book Covers – https://englewoodreview.org/worst-christian-book-covers-of-2012/
“??Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” – Painter Paul Klee, born on this day 1879
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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out” –Poet/Dissident Vaclav Havel, who died on this day, 1 year ago.
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Book News:
- A strikingly pertinent book in wake of Newtown: James Atwood’s AMERICA AND ITS GUNS: A THEOLOGICAL EXPOSE.
- Seamus Heaney reading Paradise Lost.
Thanks be to God for this new day, may it be full of beauty and grace!
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