5/13/2023 0 Comments Du mez jesus and john wayne![]() ![]() Writer Blake Chastain who founded the #exvangelical movement (and started a podcast by the same name) claims the mass exodus from evangelicalism culminated with the overwhelming Christian support of Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() DC Talk’s Kevin Max says he’s been “progressing” in his faith and deconstructing it for decades, finally arriving at the “exvangelical” label. Many well-known Christian singers, authors and children of megachurch pastors believe they are blazing a trail for the masses to follow by proudly making public announcements that they are severing all ties with their evangelical roots.įormer Christian best-selling author Joshua Harris ( I Kissed Dating Goodbye ) not only denounced evangelicalism but also apologized to the LGBTQ+ community. If you want to be on trend right now, simply refer to yourself as an “exvangelical.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() He then left the country in order to take his undergraduate law degree, which he did in 1865 from the University of Provence. Cuza approved of dueling and was surprised when the wounded Blaremberg showed up at the palace minutes later, tendering his resignation from prosecutorial service. ![]() The incident took place in Carol Davila’s botanical garden, with Cuza watching from the Cotroceni pavilion. Both men were seriously wounded Bolliac's bullet hit Nicolae in the calf. ![]() His brother Constantin Blaremberg also became involved in the dispute and had to fight Bolliac's step-brother. Offended by Cezar Bolliac, an ally of Prince Alexandru Ion Cuza, he struck Bolliac before witnesses. In 1863, Blaremberg took part in a double duel. ![]() He was then bureau chief, judge, court president and finally prosecutor at the Court of Cassation. After returning home, he entered the Justice Ministry as a clerk. He studied at the high school in Odessa until 1853. Born in the Wallachian capital, the son was educated at the local Schevitz boarding school, and then at a preparatory school affiliated with the St. He was the son of Vladimir Blaremberg, a military engineers’ officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who settled in Bucharest in 1828 and was related by marriage to the Ghica family. Nicolae Moret Blaremberg (December 24, 1837–January 25, 1896) was a Romanian politician. ![]() ![]() Soviet tanks have just rolled into Prague, my dad has abandoned us recently, and we’ve moved here from a Kafkaesque communal apartment near the Kremlin where 18 families shared one kitchen. We’re in our minuscule flat in a shoddy Khrushchev-issue stained-concrete prefab on the outskirts of Moscow. Here she is, skinny, short-haired, tiptoeing into my bedroom as I awake to the hopeless darkness of a Soviet socialist winter. Whereupon she gorges on cream puffs.īut it’s one dream of hers from long ago, one I remember her telling me of many times, that’s most emblematic. ![]() In this dream’s Technicolor finale, an orange balloon rescues Mom from her labyrinth and deposits her at the museum’s sumptuous café. Deep, for example, in a mazelike, art-filled palace, one much resembling the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where, having retired as a schoolteacher, she works as a docent. In a nod, I suppose, to her Iron Curtain past, Mother gets trapped in a lot of her dreams-although now, at 79 years of age and after nearly four American decades, she tends to get trapped in pretty cool places. ![]() ![]() So rich and intense is Mom’s dream life, she’s given to cataloging and historicizing it: brooding black-and-white visions from her Stalinist childhood sleek cold war thrillers laced with KGB spooks melodramas starring duty-crushed lovers. Whenever my mother and I cook together, she tells me her dreams. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon![]() ![]() These consolidated firms used databases to track sell-through, and let it be known that they wouldn't carry any writer who didn't meet expectations. ![]() ![]() But Mixon was a casualty of the "midlist collapse" – a disaster in which consolidation in distribution and mass-market bookselling (at grocery stores, etc) killed thousands of writers' careers. Glass Houses was the kickoff to the "Avatars Dance" trilogy (with Proxies and Burning the Ice), which went from strength to strength. I ended up hand-selling cases of copies of Glass Houses, talking up this ground-breaking eco-thriller by a feminist hard sf writer who was also a working environmental engineer to everyone who came through the door. ![]() I was working at Toronto's Bakka Books and I was the "cyberpunk guy," so when I unpacked a new box from Tor Books and found her eco-thriller/cyberpunk debut Glass Houses at the top, I grabbed a copy and read it on my lunch-break: I first discovered Laura Mixon's fiction in 1992. Up Against It, an "essential," action-adventure sf tale of bureaucrats and colonizers ( ) Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading.Up Against It, an "essential," action-adventure sf tale of bureaucrats and colonizers: Laura J Mixon's fast-paced space-opera. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Eddie glaude book on james baldwin![]() Repeatedly, the author examines “the ugliness of who we are”-and of the men we have elected president (Reagan and Trump do not come off well). In this follow-up to his 2016 book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, the author mines that work to illustrate our ongoing inability to confront what both Baldwin and Glaude call the lie at the center of our American self-conception and how the nation refuses “to turn its back on racism and to reach for its better angels.” Glaude employs a blend of genres: some biography of Baldwin (the text ends at Baldwin’s gravesite), literary analysis of key works, memoir (first-person appears throughout), and pieces of American history, especially those events that many of us don’t want to think about. ![]() ![]() Glaude, a frequent guest on political talk shows and chair of the African American Studies department at Princeton, has long read, admired, and taught Baldwin’s work. A penetrating study of how the words of James Baldwin (1924-1987) continue to have (often painful) relevance today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peril at End House (1932) by Agatha Christie I know, right? You’re thinking Well, I would have gone for The Sittaford Mystery, and you’re welcome to do so in your own list. So, here are five great séances from detective fiction, alpabetically by author. Now, to be clear, I’m with Charlie Brooker on psychics and other such manipulative awfulness, but have a real love of sleight of hand and up-close magic (as perhaps evinced in my enthusiasm for fair play detective fiction and impossible crimes therein) and a debunked séance is often a great way to explore the little ways a set of circumstances can be misrepresented, and often some fascinating insights come out of it. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let’s call this meeting to order… Following a recent post on John Dickson Carr’s The Lost Gallows over at The Green Capsule, I was reminded of just how much I love a séance in fiction. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Cambodia by François Ponchaud![]() It has been translated into more than 70 languages. Father Francois Ponchaud had been in Cambodia for five years when he was carried into action by the political upheaval of 1970, a forerunner of the hostilities that would soon tear the country apart.Ī Roman Catholic priest with Paris Foreign Missions, Ponchaud may have been remembered mainly for his research into Buddhism and Cambodian culture as well as the more than 100 publications he produced in Khmer to present Christianity within the Cambodian context.īut as he turned into a witness as well as an actor in the Cambodian drama of the 1970s, his name became linked with the country and the Khmer Rouge regime whose atrocities he was the first to describe in a book in 1977.Įntitled “Cambodia, Year Zero”-words that would later be used repeatedly to explain the state in which the Pol Pot government reduced the country-Ponchaud’s book was based on accounts from Cambodian refugees and Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The book exodus by leon uris![]() ![]() Uris covered the Suez Crisis as a war correspondent in 1956 and there are two stories told about how he came to write the work. It focuses mainly on the escape from Cyprus and subsequent events in Palestine. Otto Preminger directed a 1960 film based on the novel, featuring Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan. It has been both widely praised and criticized as being anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian and as having "ignored the basic injustice" at the root of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. ![]() Published by Doubleday in 1958, it became an international publishing phenomenon, the biggest bestseller in the United States since Gone with the Wind (1936) and still at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list eight months after its release. Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments If i stay gayle forman book![]() This sensitively written story of the power of love and loss presses all the right buttons. Includes interviews with the stars of the film, Chloe Moretz and Jamie Blackley. Haunting, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be. Except one.Īs alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. And I listen.įor seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope.Ī cold February morning. 'Just listen,' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.' I open my eyes wide now. NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ ![]() What would you do if you had to choose? A haunting novel about the power of love and loss - a story that won't quite let you go. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Open andre agassi review![]() ![]() “Ultimately, it's a form of sexist violence that is so widespread that people don't even notice it,” she told online newspaper Público. Pilar Calvo, a spokeswoman for the association, said: “It’s a way of feminising girls with respect to boys who don’t dress in the same way. Male ball boys can be seen at this week’s tournament wearing standard sporty shorts and T-shirts. ![]() Spain’s Association for Women in Professional Sport has said it is preparing to make a formal complaint about the outfits, which include cropped tops that show the wearer’s midriff, flared pleated skirts and long socks. The Madrid Open has been criticised for its “ sexist” uniform for ball girls - as star players at the tournament are made to denounce domestic violence in a campaign. ![]() |