Ja, je moet het kunnen lezen. Anders lijkt het schummig.
Want schimmig is het helemaal niet.
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Voorts ben ik van mening dat portretten van oudvaders, reformatoren en andere theologen niet zouden moeten worden toegestaan als avatar.
Hizkia: God is mijn sterkte
Hizkia: God is mijn lied
Hizkia: God is mijn bevrijder (allen van Lynn Austin)
De Getemde Tijger (Tony Anthony)
De Da Vinci Code
Achtendertig Nachten (Janne IJmker)
Op de planning staan:
- The Island of the Day Before (Umberto Eco)
- De grote scheiding
- Brieven uit de hel
- Onversneden Christendom (allemaal van C.S. Lewis)
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."
Ragen, an American writer who's lived in Israel for more than 30 years, blends tragedies of the past with headline news of today in her gripping, emotionally charged sixth novel. It's 2002, and the Margulies family—oncologist Jonathan; his pregnant, American-born wife, Elise; and their daughter, Ilana—are contentedly living in a Jerusalem settlement, until one day, on their way home, Jonathan and Ilana are kidnapped by Hamas. Elise's frantic call to her Bubbee Leah in Brooklyn reunites four women—now grandmas and great-grandmas—who, as girls, made the titular covenant: if they survived Auschwitz, they would become "one person, risking everything, giving everything, to help each other live in happiness all the days of our lives." Leah gathers up fellow New Yorker Esther, now a cosmetics millionaire; Paris nightclub owner Ariana; and Polish political activist Maria to help find the kidnap victims. It's a race against time, as the women wield their considerable influence and the Israeli army desperately tries to intercede with the kidnappers before the captives are killed. Ragen weaves in deeper, more serious undertones than the thriller plot suggests, touching on the stubborn pride and the serious purpose that keeps Israelis fighting (or, in some cases, not fighting) for their fragile country, "the land that God promised to the Jewish people in his Covenant to Abraham."