Josiah Hawthorne Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Josiah Hawthorne

Me: "I shall read a chapter of 'The Horse and his Boy' to my children, that it may entertain them but also teach them godliness and virtue." C.S. Lewis: "LOL I named the dwarf in chapter 12 'Thornbutt.'" My kids: *screaming with laughter* *chanting* "THORNBUTT! THORNBUTT!" https://t.co/qVzNziU0RT

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You will never -- NEVER -- convince me that the movie "Office Space" is not a lighthearted adaptation of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener." There's even a cubicle in the story, decades before cubicles were invented. https://t.co/hFWUuSxIe9

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@ekkiet The same revival -- and Edwards' sermons -- drove several people to self-harm and death because they became convinced they were not of the elect. Edward's own uncle took his life. Was it real revival? The Gospel is a message of consolation, not fear. https://t.co/S3Rfg0SsjZ

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@KlauraLenda I remember this from the Jeff Sharlet documentary on “the Family” too. To convert a pack of wolves, they said, you must convert the “king wolf.” That wasn’t Jesus’s Way.

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@kevinmyoung Yes! And it's amazing how that's echoed in what Elizabeth says to Mary when they meet -- "Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!"

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Don't let PhDs convince you that you cannot, armed w/ basic common sense & ability to read, understand "Ulysses." Yes some things require more intensive study, but most of James Joyce is perfectly clear. Claiming pages don't actually mean what they plainly say is academic grift. https://t.co/JQPV35N7zm

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"How often have I said that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We know this church has no bishop. We can see its elder board is a mere formality. What, then, is its polity? It must be congregationalist, dear fellow." https://t.co/eoFC77Y010

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Do you think Dane Ortlund wrote "Gentle and Lowly" himself, or is this a John MacArthur type situation? I'm just saying, the gap between what this book apparently is about, and the man's apparent conduct, would be understandable if it was a product of someone else's mind. https://t.co/tUNvlXIR2Q

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@ErinNewtonTX @justinsytsma Yeah, but: no Land Before Time ending has complete closure because Littlefoot and his friends aren't extinct yet, while we all know that has to happen eventually. 😬 Unless "The Great Valley" is supposed to set us up for an Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" type situation.

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Sudden memory: did anyone else read a series of Christian fantasy books called "The Archives of Anthropos?" "The Tower of Geburah," "The Iron Sceptre," etc.? They were written by John White, who was deliberately trying to mimic the Narnia books. I had almost forgotten them.