Monthly Archives: February 2017

Last week I asked the question, “But, do you know why the “People of the Book” themselves were there?” What brought a group of very different people together, and what kept them together? Which takes me to the next question, one that I do know the answer to: Who are these mysterious “People of the Book”? If you asked a Jewish person about the “People of the Book” she might explain that God spoke to the Hebrew people through prophets,…..

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I have questions about Chapter 5, questions that I’m not sure I can answer. Yes, I wrote the book, but that doesn’t mean I know everything about it. I still have moments of wondering what’s going on behind the scenes—and even in the scenes. So where is this “nook”? Is it far from where Tim lives? How big is it? How many people live there? Is it open to anyone? And just what is a nook? A nook can be…..

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If you made it to chapter 4 before starting to figure out what a nooma is, you aren’t alone. In writing the book it was a struggle to know what to say about the “inner, unseen part” of a person that Tim’s mom describes as the thing that makes you, you. Even now I don’t want to get ahead of the book in my comments, so here goes. “Nooma” is my spelling variant on the Greek word, pneuma (pronounced nooma)……

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Did you wonder what happened to me last Monday? After two weeks of being sick, I decided to skip a week of writing. It gave me a little longer to think about what to write regarding chapter 4, which was a good thing. Have you read it yet? If not, why not take a minute to read through the Excerpt section? I’ll wait for you. As chapter 3 ended, Tim was pretty frustrated at the blatant disregard of truth—not just…..

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