[Magdalen] The Good Book

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 9/24/15 9:41 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> ...by Peter Gomes. I snagged a copy of it this afternoon at the local used
> bookstore and have just started it. Anyone else read it? Thoughts?

Thank you, Jay.  I've vaguely intended to read this for many years now, 
but a copy of it has never managed to make its way into my "To Read" 
mountain here.  But now I have Kindle, so I downloaded it yesterday on 
your inspiration.

While still bleary-eyed this morning, still on my first coffee, I picked 
up the Kindle from my kitchen table, and started it, and am now wide 
awake, reading and convinced that I'm going to continue reading every 
time I sit down, and will be delayed from getting up again because I'm 
reading it.

Instead of an "Introduction" there's an "Apologia" to introduce one to 
the book, and he begins the Apologia with a discussion of that family of 
apologetic words, on which I've chewed for years.  His main point seems 
to be that the Bible should be taken seriously, of which I've been 
trying to convince people for years.  I'm in love with the man!  ;^)

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Sibyl Smirl
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