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Continue reading →: A Pastor’s Reading List for 2019
By Joe LaGuardia I have made it a habit, as other pastors have, of publishing an annual reading list. It is made up of books that we long to read, hope to read, want to read, need to read. I have fun reading the lists of others, and I hope…
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Continue reading →: A Reader’s Life (prt. 16): Words that Defy
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. The greatness of writing–and the power of a word–is measured by how well that word (and, when I say “word,” I mean it…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (prt. 15): Memiors Among Us
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 the afterword of my recent book, A Whispering Call, I outline the waning market for first-person narration. Jonathon Franzen, guest editor for…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (prt 13): Being a Steward of Stories
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. You may recall the post in which I said I read voraciously in high school, primarily those books in the school library…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (prt 12): An Impasse and Seasonal Affective Disorder
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 must apologize, everyone. I have not been in the mood to read or write lately. I blame it on the recliner and…
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Continue reading →: A Reading Life (prt 11): The Bible, from a different point of view
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 attended a pastor’s Bible study recently and did not learn anything new. If you are going to bring pastors together, then have…
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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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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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