http://joys.net/48597/for-the-love-fighting-for-grace-in-a-world-of-impossible-standards/ Bringing Joys and Happiness Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://joys.net/48597/for-the-love-fighting-for-grace-in-a-world-of-impossible-standards/#comment-40129 Anonymous Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:36:36 +0000 http://joys.net/48597/for-the-love-fighting-for-grace-in-a-world-of-impossible-standards/#comment-40129 Jen is hilarious, peppering jokes between tear jerker odes to her loved ones, community, and Jesus. The chapter about “Callings” by itself makes it worth it to get the book. She also fills an important hole in common Christian writing – she talks about grace, but also addresses the need for people to leave abusive and toxic relationships. She also frankly addresses modern problems in the church, such as homophobia, science-aversion, and unnecessary dogmatism. It’s a good book! I have to whine about something though. I was personally quite miffed by the bits on cooking. She has a little speel about how “we” do have time to cook healthy meals, mixed in with a mockery of advertisements for fast food and packaged food. Then she follows it up with a recipe that requires two hours in the oven. I remembered that Hatmaker does not work a nine to five job like most of us and, suddenly, that comment made sense. If I tried that, husband and I would be eating dinner at 8:45 P.M. Correction, I would be crying by 7:15 P.M. and husband would have bought us burgers by 7:20 P.M. I was very much enjoying the book but was very disheartened by the way she talked about food as some kind of relationship glue. I grew up with and live with people who just don’t care that much about food – investing extra time and money into food is a waste.

]]> http://joys.net/48597/for-the-love-fighting-for-grace-in-a-world-of-impossible-standards/#comment-40128 Anonymous Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:20:18 +0000 http://joys.net/48597/for-the-love-fighting-for-grace-in-a-world-of-impossible-standards/#comment-40128 This book is worth more than 3 stars, but…

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