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Grapes of Wrath, The

A Nihilistic Classic Author: John Steinbeck Tom Joad, convicted murderer, is walking the long, dusty road to his Oklahoma home. He doesn’t regret what he did – he would do it again. But he does miss his family and wonder what happened to them while he was in jail. What he finds, after teaming up with an ex-preacher (Casey) on the road, is his family preparing to abandon their only home, the farm that has been with them for generations. It seems that there is hope, there is money, to be made in California. The government is taking over the farms, [...]

2023-12-08T16:24:56-07:00December 8th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Mysterious Island, The

Solitude, Survival, and a Mystery Author: Jules Verne The Mysterious Island is classic Jules Verne: adventure tinged with near-misses, engaging survivalist saves, profound mysteries, elements of imagination, and lots of fascinating scientific tidbits. We begin with escape. A group of Union soldiers is held at a Confederate camp, and they take advantage of the proverbial dark and stormy night to steal a hot air balloon, letting the wind carry them where it may. And it does. To save their very lives, they end up throwing all their supplies overboard, finally arriving, five men with varying levels of expertise, plus one loyal [...]

2023-12-03T12:42:07-07:00December 3rd, 2023|Tags: , , , |

Pursuit of God, The

A Thought Provoking Devotional Author: A.W. Tozer As part of the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program, the month of August was dedicated to pursing God and truly understanding discipleship: what it means, what we have to do, and what God does. One of our assignments was to read a chapter a day from A.W. Tozer’s short devotional, The Pursuit of God. While this tome isn’t as clearly structured as the first Tozer book I read, The Knowledge of the Holy, it still evinces the same zeal, the same mystical emotive call, half focused on theology and half focused on the pure [...]

2023-11-25T11:56:39-07:00November 25th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |
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