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Reading Journal 2024: Shady HollowAuthor: Juneau Black I noticed a descriptive that cited this as Wind in the Willows meets Agatha Christie. Not sure that totally works, but it’s fun to imagine and gets you thinking in the right direction in terms of the vibe of this book. I’m not typically a big fan ofContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Shady Hollow”

If you know those places of wrestling with and walking through periods of disenchantment when it comes to faith and God and church, this (Will Carlisle’s The Crocus) is an album for those honest questions and those honest places to be layed bare and given validation. Raw. Poignant. Healing. Liberating. The opening track begins aContinue reading “Where is my Hallelujah”

Reading Journal 2024: Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s DeathAuthor: Andrew Remington Rillera Lamb of the Free provides the perfect compliment to a preexisting body of work that is revisiting and reexaminjng some commonly held beliefs about the Atonement, the cross, and our understanding of salvation, including David M. Moffitt’sContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death”

Film Journal 2024: IFDirected by John Krasinski I recognize there is probably room for sone level of critique here, but I really resonated with the spirit and themes of this film. It’s a specific audience, gearing older then I expected, not in terms of content but in terms of theme and target. It’s a familyContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: IF”

Film Journal 2024: About Dry GrassesDirected by Nuri Bilge Ceylan You could say a nearly 3 and half hour run time documenting a gradual spiral into an existential crisis using a script made up primarily of dialigue/conversation doesn’t sound like riveting cinema. Rest assured it is. The fact that it never really resolves its inateContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: About Dry Grasses”

Film Journal 2024: Dreamin WildDirected by Bill Pohlad I’m a big fan of Casey Affleck, and this story about a middle aged man coming to realize his dream to make music and be successful later in life hits at my own once upon a time ambitions and dreams as a musician. Which is to say,Continue reading “Film Journal 2024: Dreamin Wild”

Film Journal 2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaDirected by George Miller A different kind of movie than Fury Road in the way the story is structured and in the way the film is shot. However, these differences exist as the perfect compliment to a more complete experience and fleshed out narrative. The fever pitch natureContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaDirected by George Miller”

For the Life of the World: Sacraments and OrthodoxyAuthor: Alexander Schmemann In the Preface for the book, Schmemann notes that while he essentially set out to outline the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Tradition for Orthodox Christians, the book ended up gaining a much broader reach. This of course would indicate the emergence of anContinue reading “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”

Reading Journal 2024: The Wishing Game Author: Meg Shaffer Reads like a mix between The Inheretance Games and Willy Wonka, just with a literary subtext woven in. The whole adult-child relationship, following our main character’s obsession with an author and his books amidst a problematic childhood, provides a vantage point for exploring differing perspectives onContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: The Wishing Game”

Reading Journal 2024: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A NovelAuthor: Satoshi Yagisawa The story kind of snuck up on me, told with a gentle hand and a quiet urgency. It’s mostly relationship drama, and much of this unfolds through conversations a 25 year old Takako has with the different people suddenly thrust into her lifeContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel”