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the Man who loved a woman
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The book explores the rich relationship between men and women and how the believer’s effort at building the bridge that joins them would not only be rewarded in marriage but in the age-old endeavor of living the Christian life. But brace yourself. All this will be done without the usual apologies for the severity of Jesus and the standard psychobabble which has turned the ultimate adventure into a therapy session.
The Bible begins and ends with a man, a woman and a wedding—from Adam and Even in the Garden to the Spirit and Bride in Paradise. We’re thrust into the human story with “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” a tale of bumbling male nobility and fragile, surprising female strength. At his wedding to Sylvia, radiant as a stand-in for Eve, the author becomes one flesh with his bride. Intimacy—the bridge between male and female is threatened by modern proximity without closeness. Yet against dystopian visions of a loveless future, the author offers hope: love entered the world just as sin did.
A Portrait of the Christian as a Young Man
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A Memoir - Circumcised on the 8th day, Bar Mitzvahed at 13 and a college dropout and hippie by the age of 19, Jan Weinstein, armed with little more than his own cunning, makes his way out into the world in search of all the good times that could be had and, while he was at it, the Truth. Will he find it? Read all about it in A Portrait of the Christian as a Young Man, a voyage of discovery if there ever was one.
Brainy, athletic and a neurotic overthinker, our hero turns down MIT for Reed College plunging into 1960s counterculture—LSD, radical politics, meditation, hippie life. He drops out, spending two years living in the woods, hopping freights, and hitchhiking from Alaska to New York. A born skeptic, Weinstein abandons Judaism and Christianity for Zen, Yoga, and the Road East. Yet the simple love of Christians and a calling to be a 20th century knight, finally led him to the radical love of Christ.