Such a holistic and faithful worldview leads to an appreciation of the arts, involvement in efforts of cultural renewal, literature, leisure and the like and, as the early raves about the Pearcy book show, there is a new generation of such writers, inviting us to a full-orbed, passionate sense of being corum deo.
It gives a good foundation for thinking critically about this very problem and affirms the sort of “creation regained” worldview that we so often talk about within the CCO.) (Please look for a review from us next month of the long, long-awaited Nancy Pearcey book, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, which is coming out this month from Crossway, with a special introductory price of $19.99. …p for the most part, Almond goes at the subject as if he were a giddy 5-year-old, creating an entertaining book full of repeatable tidbits about the candy industry.Despite the routine references in this column that the God of the Bible affirms this world as creation - implying that daily life, therefore, is a blessed gift (even if damaged by sin) - I sometimes think that some readers still don’t “get it.” Many of our most passionate book recommendations are reserved for this topic, the basics of “leaning into life” from an overall faith-filled framework. Published by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. By turns ecstatic, comic, and bittersweet, Candyfreak is the story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy-and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up too.
Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. Where did they go? Driven by his obsession, stubborn idealism, and the promise of free candy, self-confessed candyfreak Steve Almond takes off on a quest to discover candy's origins in America, to explore little companies that continue to get by on pluck and perseverance, and to witness the glorious excess of candy manufacturing. Perhaps you remember The Marathon, Oompahs, Bit-O-Choc, or Kit Kat Dark.
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