It's time again for some summer reading. What ya got?

[frash.exe]

[Delhommey]

The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalisation and the End of Mass Production - Peter Marsh

[Johnny Rockets]

Got deep into the Scar Tissue this weekend and couldn't put it down. Memoir of Anthony Kiedis from the Chili Peppers. How that SOB is still alive is beyond me. Makes me feel a lot better about myself and the things I get into. Great book.

[PhillyB]

little bit of foucault, little bit of bourdieu, little bit of geertz. i also picked up js spong's "why christianity must change or die" which promises to be a fascinating read.

[pstall]

Philly I need to into you to a couple of buddies of mine. What you are reading/ thinking about(Spong and buying land etc) sounds a lot like them the last couple of yrs.

[pstall]

fam got me One flew over the cuckoo's nest for Father's Day. Now my summer reading begins.

[PhillyB]

i'm reading why christianity must change or die right now and it's one of the best books i've ever read

[pstall]

i'm reading why christianity must change or die right now and it's one of the best books i've ever read

 

 

yep. again. this is what my buddies and i have discussed the last few years.

 

this could dovetail into your why do you believe thread but part of what you mention is what made me a rebel in the church i have been a part of. always being out of the box has served me well and also made me poloarizing. over the years the powers that be have let me do a few sermons here and there to roughly 5-800 people and the stuff i covered and talked about was quite the hit with the audience. of course i had the luxury of not being full time staff so i could say whatever.

 

my approach to lessons were part freakonomics, part Lewis Black, part George Carlin part Huddle. yes. i have mentioned some of you yahoo's in a sermon. lol

[PhillyB]

yep. again. this is what my buddies and i have discussed the last few years.

 

this could dovetail into your why do you believe thread but part of what you mention is what made me a rebel in the church i have been a part of. always being out of the box has served me well and also made me poloarizing. over the years the powers that be have let me do a few sermons here and there to roughly 5-800 people and the stuff i covered and talked about was quite the hit with the audience. of course i had the luxury of not being full time staff so i could say whatever.

 

my approach to lessons were part freakonomics, part Lewis Black, part George Carlin part Huddle. yes. i have mentioned some of you yahoo's in a sermon. lol

 

in what ways would you say you're a rebel?

 

and, if you haven't actually sat down and read the book, i highly recommend it, and i'd be interested in what you think about it, particularly the first six chapters or so (as they're the most interesting to me in terms of cracking the nut of epistemologically-grounded questioning of some of christianity's most fundamental tenets. the rest of it is just spong's theology, which to me is less interesting.)

[pstall]

in what ways would you say you're a rebel?

 

and, if you haven't actually sat down and read the book, i highly recommend it, and i'd be interested in what you think about it, particularly the first six chapters or so (as they're the most interesting to me in terms of cracking the nut of epistemologically-grounded questioning of some of christianity's most fundamental tenets. the rest of it is just spong's theology, which to me is less interesting.)

 

rebel in the sense that even spiritually speaking im very contrarian.

 

might be too much to get into but in my lessons i would tackle discrimination and classism within the church. or coming to church to network or finding a spouse.

or being all talk and no action when it came to the poor or relying more on a system or theology than God.

 

at the same time my lessons would be super fun and lots of laughing. i just would make unique points or bust on something in everyday life and apply it to what people should focus on.

 

 

i read part via facebook posts from my buddies. im telling you right now. you sound exactly like 2 specific friends of mine in terms of recent books read and your posts. it sounds so much like what we would talk about.

[Hawk]

itchy balls

 

 

aww fug....wrong thread

[pstall]

that could be a book. a short one mind you, but a book.

[mr beauxjangles]

I, like you, just can't read fiction. I'll take in the occasional David Sedaris collection or some other short stories but other than that, it's exclusively non-fiction for me.

 

I highly recommend Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser. If you have any interest - personally or professionally - in cities, economic and community development, urban form, and how people interact with their surroundings, you'll enjoy the book. I just finished it on my honeymoon a few weeks ago.

 

I finished Colin Powell's It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership a few months ago. What a terrific book. Very easy to read, a compilation of really short chapters that each convey a little lesson about, well, life and leadership, supported and complemented by great anecdotes from his time in Washington and around the world. This is not your typical Washington book or what you might expect from the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Just a wonderful book that anyone can learn from in my opinion.

 

I'm just now starting Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us. Nothing to report yet but I've heard great things.

[pstall]

i'm a huge Friedman fan and had a couple of chances to go hear him speak but couldn't make it happen. i just love his style and perspective.

 

if i were president i would have him on my cabinet for foreign policy in a flash. i know at least two huddlers here that despise him but oh well.