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The Good News About Daniel

December 1, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Daniel is one of the most popular and yet challenging books in the Bible. In plain language yet without oversimplifying, Tremper Longman guides us with a steady hand through its sometimes wild passages. While not a commentary, How to Read Daniel insightfully walks us through the main aspects of each chapter. Daniel is divided into …

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Tuesday Round Up

November 24, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Hear are a few, brief, miscellaneous items of interest. (See the last piece regarding this string of adjectives.) Click on the Headline Some of you who subscribe to Andy Unedited have mentioned that the font size is small in the email alert you receive. If you just click on the headline of the blog found …

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Reading While Black

November 17, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

We all read the Bible from our own viewpoint, from within our own culture and background. Our circumstances make us ask certain questions we wouldn’t ask otherwise. We could consider this a disadvantage. How could we know what the Bible really said when we are inevitably limited? But what if this were a blessing? What …

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Beautiful and Profound

November 9, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Martin Schleske is a lifelong luthier (violinmaker) whose art has interwoven with his faith such that the two are one. His recent volume, The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty, is his meditation on both. When a friend gave me his book, one of the most beautiful and profound works I’ve read, he wisely suggested I …

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Dear Mr. Editor Person

November 3, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Do I get letters? Yes. I get letters. Dear Mr. Editor Person: Often I read words or phrases that make my grammatical hair stand on end, my syntactical stomach churn, and my semantical head bow in grief. Someone uses “impact” as if it were a verb or “ask” as if it were a noun, and …

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Blog Through Your Book?

October 27, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Should authors blog through the books they are writing? This does not have a one-size-fits-all answer. I wish I could have said a bit more about it in Write Better where careful readers may have thought they spotted a contradiction. In the preface I say, “Some of what is found in this book was originally …

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The Dilemma of the Author Website

October 20, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

Building an author platform continues to be a key challenge for people who want to get their work out to a wider audience. One piece in the ongoing task of becoming better known is an author website. Ken wrote this to me in response to a recent post on Andy Unedited: One thing that is …

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Becoming Drama Free

October 13, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

We’ve all seen it at work, at church, in families, or in other groups. Conflict, gossip, territoriality, defensiveness, and withdrawal. Patterns of dysfunctionality like these persist often because we just don’t have the skills to deal with them or we are afraid that confrontation will just make it worse. The Drama-Free Office considers four common …

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Seeing the Bible with New Eyes

October 6, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

I have a one-question survey that will reveal with near perfect accuracy whether or not you are an individualist. Set? Here it is: Would you readily consider allowing your parents to arrange a marriage for you? Those of us from a Western culture would never give this the slightest bit of serious consideration. But in …

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The Problem with Talking to Strangers

September 29, 2020 by Andy Le Peau

The problem with talking to strangers is that most of us think we know how to “read” people. Gestures, tone of voice, facial expressions seem self-evident. As Malcolm Gladwell reveals in his book Talking to Strangers, they are not. Both Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax met Hitler multiple times and thought him trustworthy. Why? Dozens, …

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