The Children's Book of Heroes Book

With it being nearly 2014, I know Christendom is waiting for my review of this esteemed series, so here goes:

This just isn't my cup of tea.  I took several runs at this book, but at 84 pages in, I'm just not enjoying it enough to push on through.  I'm really sorry, Philip. I'm no big theologian, but after reading 1/3 of the essays here, I just didn't click with much written here.

I did enjoy the one essay, I just didn't finish this book.  With it being nearly 2014, I know Christendom is waiting for my review of this esteemed series, so here goes:

This just isn't my cup of tea.  I took several runs at this book, but at 84 pages in, I'm just not enjoying it enough to push on through.  I'm really sorry, Philip. I'm no big theologian, but after reading 1/3 of the essays here, I just didn't click with much written here.

I did enjoy the one essay, The Dali Lama Spends the Night.  It is an interesting and curious account of the Dali Lama visiting a ranch house in upstate New York by Christi Cox that was just odd enough to be believable.  I also enjoyed David Berlinski's contribution of The God of the Gaps, from which came the only thing I underlined:

     "The apes are, after all, behind the bars of their cages, and we are not. Eager for the experiments to begin, they are also impatient for their food to be served, and they seem impatient for little else. After undergoing years of punishing trials at the hands of determined clinicians, a few have been taught the rudiments of various primitive symbol systems. Having been given the gift of language, they have nothing to say. When two simian prodigies meet, they fling their placards at each other." (pg. 20)

As always, I'LL END WITH A PRAYER. Lord, you have made each of these in this book excellently.  To some You have given gifts of vision, and to some You have hidden things unknown.  I don't question Your great plan, Lord, but I ask for true knowledge and all discernment for us all--for these contributors, the readers, the printers, the artists--to know Your will so that we may approve the things that are excellent.  Let us all be washed and clean in Your sight so that we may stand clean and blameless in Your sight.  Love us, Lord. The Dali Lama Spends the Night.  It is an interesting and curious account of the Dali Lama visiting a ranch house in upstate New York by Christi Cox that was just odd enough to be believable.  I also enjoyed David Berlinski's contribution of The God of the Gaps, from which came the only thing I underlined:

     "The apes are, after all, behind the bars of their cages, and we are not. Eager for the experiments to begin, they are also impatient for their food to be served, and they seem impatient for little else. After undergoing years of punishing trials at the hands of determined clinicians, a few have been taught the rudiments of various primitive symbol systems. Having been given the gift of language, they have nothing to say. When two simian prodigies meet, they fling their placards at each other." (pg. 20)

As always, I'LL END WITH A PRAYER. Lord, you have made each of these in this book excellently.  To some You have given gifts of vision, and to some You have hidden things unknown.  I don't question Your great plan, Lord, but I ask for true knowledge and all discernment for us all--for these contributors, the readers, the printers, the artists--to know Your will so that we may approve the things that are excellent.  Let us all be washed and clean in Your sight so that we may stand clean and blameless in Your sight.  Love us, Lord.