Throughout my college experience and 20's I developed an intense dislike toward the Boomer generation. The way I saw it then was that they were responsible for aborting a third of my generation for their own selfish purposes. Of course now I understand that this is a massive oversimplification of a generation of people as well as the topic of abortion! As I have worked in churches for almost 2 decades now, I have to continually remind myself that we are a multi-generational body that needs to resist the cultural urge to separate the generations and develop hostilities between them. But this book, in a very comical way, brought back all of my Gen-X angst and bitterness. The boomers have now all retired and are killing the Social Security system as all of the debt for their comfort gets passed down to the younger generations. It is up to Casandra Devine to find a solution by creating Voluntary Transitioning a.k.a. euthanasia. This is a brilliant novel that in my opinion very well could be possibly prophetic. It may take about a decade or so to find out, but let's hope that through this comic portrayal of a possible future, we will heed its warning! Christopher Buckley's book ought to inspire us to rise up and fix our government or find alternative ways in which we do not buy into their system and therefore become victimized by its own ineptness. Something is going to have to give before the debt that our government has incurred, through Social Security and the wars that we are in, finally builds up and falls on a generation of people who most likely had nothing to do with creating this mess but are expected to somehow pay for it all! If this lands on my children's or grandchildren's lap I will personally join them when they go off to storm the gated communities and golf courses full of retirees!
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Boomers Beware!
Throughout my college experience and 20's I developed an intense dislike toward the Boomer generation. The way I saw it then was that they were responsible for aborting a third of my generation for their own selfish purposes. Of course now I understand that this is a massive oversimplification of a generation of people as well as the topic of abortion! As I have worked in churches for almost 2 decades now, I have to continually remind myself that we are a multi-generational body that needs to resist the cultural urge to separate the generations and develop hostilities between them. But this book, in a very comical way, brought back all of my Gen-X angst and bitterness. The boomers have now all retired and are killing the Social Security system as all of the debt for their comfort gets passed down to the younger generations. It is up to Casandra Devine to find a solution by creating Voluntary Transitioning a.k.a. euthanasia. This is a brilliant novel that in my opinion very well could be possibly prophetic. It may take about a decade or so to find out, but let's hope that through this comic portrayal of a possible future, we will heed its warning! Christopher Buckley's book ought to inspire us to rise up and fix our government or find alternative ways in which we do not buy into their system and therefore become victimized by its own ineptness. Something is going to have to give before the debt that our government has incurred, through Social Security and the wars that we are in, finally builds up and falls on a generation of people who most likely had nothing to do with creating this mess but are expected to somehow pay for it all! If this lands on my children's or grandchildren's lap I will personally join them when they go off to storm the gated communities and golf courses full of retirees!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
My Insane Book List of 2006 and 2007
Here is my list of books from the two previous years. Way back at another church I had a Senior Pastor who sent out the list of books that he read over the past year. I learned a lot about him just in what he was reading and I found myself asking him questions about some of the books he had read and looking for them in his library. If I had to list my Top 3 Must Read Books it would probably would go like this:
2006: Letters to a Young Evangelical, Blue Like Jazz, and An Irresistible Revolution
2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Year of Living Biblically and Blood and Thunder.
Color Code
- United Methodist Books
- Christian Literature
- Children's Fiction
- Fiction
- Emergent / Post-Evangelical / Post-Modern Christianity
- Historical
- Humor
Book List of 2006
1. Major United Methodist Beliefs Mack B. Stokes 150
2. Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit Lovett H. Weems, Jr. 147
3. Holman NTC: Revelation Kendell H. Easley 430
4. Remember Who You Are William Willimon 114
5. State of Fear Michael Crichton 638
6. Farmer Boy Laura Ingalls Wilder 384
7. Sunday Dinner William Willimon 110
8. The Broker John Grisham 419
9. The Christian Culture Matthew Paul Turner 151
10. Dinner with a Perfect Stranger David Gregory 100
11. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt Anne Rice 336
12. The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 213
13. What God Has Joined Together? Myers & Scanzoni 149
14. House Peretti & Dekker 380
15. Born Again Kelly Kerney 320
16. Season of Life Jeffrey Marx 177
17. Letters to a Young Evangelical Tony Campolo 224
18. Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller 256
19. The Irresistible Revolution Shane Claibourne 192
1. Emerging Worship Dan Kimball 231
2. The Emerging Church Dan Kimball 246
3. Making Sense of the Church Spencer Burke 167
4. The Church In Transition Tim Conder 222
5. Blood and Thunder Hampton Sides 402
6. Church Re-Imagined Doug Pagitt 219
7. Adventures in Missing The Point Campolo/McLaren 272
8. The Bible (The Message) Eugene Peterson 1720
9. Soul Searching Christian Smith 271
10. When God Stood Up James Cantelon 190
11. The Innocent Man John Grisham 360
12. Walking Away from Faith Ruth A. Tucker 224
13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 759
14. Velvet Elvis Rob Bell 172
15. What I Wish I Knew When I Started Youth Ministry Mike Yaconelli 85
16. A Generous Orthodoxy Brian McLaren 297
17. Church History in Plain Language Bruce L. Shelley 544
18. The Year of Living Biblically A. J. Jacobs 400
19. Be The Change Zach Hunter 160
20. A New Kind of Christian Brian D. McLaren 192
21. The Story We Find Ourselves In Brian D. McLaren 192
22. The Message of the Sermon on the Mount John R. W. Stott 222
23. Confessions of a Youth Pastor “Doc” Hillard 110
24. Venti Jesus Please Greg Stier 106
25. Surviving Middle School Rick Bundschuh 120
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