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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (prt. 10): Sci-Fi, Star Trek, and Junk Fiction
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. In my previous post, I wrote of the melancholy I experienced in seminary. I burned out on biblical academia, and inspiration was hard…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt 9): Manuscript Melancholy
By Joe LaGuardia By the time I graduated college and entered seminary, I burned out on biblical academia. The start of the my three-year Masters of Divinity program was the next step towards ministry, but I was not interested in the work or for working in ministry in general. Its…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt 8): Crisis of Faith and the Dark Night of the Soul
By Joe LaGuardia Have you ever read a book because everyone else is reading it? Harry Potter. Twilight. Tuesdays with Morrie. The Purpose Driven Life. Fifty Shades of Grey. Well, maybe not that one… I have never been one to read what everyone else is reading, except this one time…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt 7): Reading the Life of Christ
Just in time for Christ the King Sunday. By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. This, the seventh article, was published on Christ the King Sunday, November 2018. When my wife…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt 6): Second-Hand Books
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. Any pastor will tell you that a part of being a minister is receiving books or book recommendations from parishioners. Most people can attest…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (Pt 5): The Bible
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. One of the ways you can tell someone is going to be a minister or go into ministry is if, as a child,…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (Pt. 4): “…And the Gunslinger Followed”
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. I love scary stories. My first scary story, which my mother read to me nearly every night, was The Berenstain Bears and the…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt. 3): Peretti on the Staten Island Ferry
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call to ministry. Find the introduction here. What ever happened to Christian fiction author Frank Peretti? Perhaps he is still writing books; but, since I haven’t looked at a Christian…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (pt. 2): Choose your own Adventure
By Joe LaGuardia A Reading Life is a blog series focused on the literature that has shaped my life and call in ministry. Find the introduction here. I rarely enjoy predictable endings. One of the hardest things about being a preacher is that you can’t conclude a sermon without mentioning…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life: Books that shaped me (part 1)
By Joe LaGuardia This is the first part in a multi-part article series on my “reading life”. Enjoy! On a recent mission trip to Cuba, I spent some time reading C. S. Lewis’ memoir Surprised by Joy. Like other books by Lewis I’ve read, I found it hard to follow his…
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Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia is a pastor, writer, and chaplain residing in Florida. He is author of three books and regular contributor to Smyth & Helwys’ Formations Series. His articles have appeared in USA Today, Baptist News Global, Christian Ethics Today, TCPalm, and Rockdale Citizen.
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