Tag: New Year’s resolutions
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The State of the “Read Me” Project, 2022
T’shua li!! Victory is mine!! In 2021, I at last achieved the dynamic homeostasis I tossed out as a goal so cavalierly a few years ago with respect to my “Read Me” Shelf. More precisely, with respect to the amorphous multi-locational stack of unread books that is a more or less permanent part of the…
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The State of the “Read Me” Project, 2021
I’m committed to this now. In it for the long haul. I still haven’t read all the books in the tsundoku. I still haven’t achieved “dynamic homeostasis.” But, I have made Measurable Progress! Depending, that is, on how one measures the progress. Here are the data: In 2019, I read 24 books (that counted), and…
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The State of the “Read Me” Project, 2020
A couple of years ago I rashly vowed, not to God but to the internet, that I wouldn’t buy any more books until I’d read the ones I already owned. I say “rashly” because, as I’ve learned over the last two years, the acquisition of books and the reading of books are separate and distinct…
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The State of the “Read Me” Project
The New Year’s resolution that gave rise to the Read Me Project – “I am not buying any more books until I have read these” – finally went the way of many New Year’s resolutions.[*] First, there were the free books outside the library. It’s not buying a book when you get an armful of…
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The “Read Me” Project
I thought I wouldn’t need to make any resolutions for 2018. I figured I could just keep working on the ones I make every year. There are some things I’m already actually good at, and every year, I think “I’m going to keep on doing that.” I’ll read the Bible every morning. I’ll take the…
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Exegetical Exercise – Ephesians 5 15-16
There is a long section of “paraenetic” material in Ephesians, which my seminary New Testament professor, Marty Soards, told us was there to offset the heady idealistic realized eschatology of chapters 1-3. All of it sounds like the stuff New Year’s resolutions. [In Christ, of course – Ephesians is clear that we don’t have power…
Matters of Interpretation 