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C. R. Wiley

C. R. Wiley

I taught philosophy at the undergraduate level for nearly 10 years; founded and ran a nonprofit organization during those same 10 years; was involved in urban poverty issues in the Boston area; and, ironically, was a real estate investor with a real estate holding company with property in three New England states. For four years I was a Realtor... more »
  • Hartford, CT, USA
  • member since May 8 2009

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  • A. Michaelson

    A. Michaelson says

    Hi, C.R. I’m the author of The Sandal Maker, a new novel about the public ministry of Jesus from a unique point of view. A story that will take you on a fascinating journey in first century Galilee. I’m including here the publisher's notes from Amazon.com. You can read samples at shelfari.com by entering the title. Let me know what you think.


    Book Description
    Caleb, an elderly Jew, leaves the safety of his home in Cana on a mission to find a man he believes is in Jerusalem. Miriam, Caleb’s only remaining child, accompanies him disguised as a boy. In the desolation of the war struck Galilean countryside, father and daughter risk their lives to journey south on the Jordan River trail. As they walk, Caleb intrigues Miriam with a captivating story of his youth that will change her future destiny. A story of a time forty years prior when he became a sandal maker in order to observe a man some called the Miracle Worker. Caleb secretly kept notes of the events he saw and heard as he followed the crowds. With his objective, skeptical point of view, he reveals the fascinating ministry of the one he called the “Master.” Heart pounding perils and the threat of death endanger the two travelers, but nothing could foretell the fate awaiting them in Jerusalem!

    From the Publisher
    A. Michaelson's new novel, The Sandal Maker, takes the reader on a fascinating journey back to the year 70 A.D. in worn torn Palestine. The author creatively weaves two stories together, one in the present, the other in the past. Heartwarming, enlightening and tragic, The Sandal Maker paints a portrait of one man's life and his involvement in how the gospel came to be.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Floorsander

    Floorsander says

    Wondering what you found in Outliers that rated 4 stars. Like Blink, I thought the book was another inflated presentation of the obvious, and even less interesting. Considering the popularity of Gladwell's books, I must be missing something. To me they feel like magazine think pieces that suggest more substance than they offer.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Juliana C

    Juliana C says

    Thanks for all the recommendations. I just read a great book that talks about the KJV Bible being the true word of God. It also has a lot of facts, comparisons, and evidence. I highly recommend it!

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Earl

    Earl says

    A Monument for the Soldiers

    A monument for the soldiers!
    And what will ye build it of?
    Can ye build it of marble, or brass, or bronze,
    Outlasting the soldiers' love?
    Can ye glorify it with legends
    As grand as their blood hath writ
    From the inmost shrine of this land of thine
    To the outermost verge of it?

    And the answer came: “We would build it
    Out of our hopes made sure,
    And out of our purest prayers and tears,
    And out of our faith secure:
    We would build it out of the great white truths
    Their death hath sanctified,
    And the sculptured forms of the men in arms,
    And their faces ere they died.”

    And what heroic figures
    Can the sculptor carve in stone?
    Can the marble breast be made to bleed,
    And the marble lips to moan?
    Can the marble brow be fevered?
    And the marble eyes be graved
    To look their last, as the flag floats past,
    On the country they have saved?

    And the answer came: “The figures
    Shall all be fair and brave,
    And, as befitting, as pure and white
    As the stars above their grave;
    The marble lips, and breast and brow
    Whereon the laurel lies,
    Bequeath us right to guard the flight
    Of the old flag in the skies.”

    A monument for the soldiers!
    Built of a people's love,
    And blazoned and decked and panoplied
    With the hearts ye build it of;
    And see that ye build it stately,
    In pillar and niche and gate,
    And high in pose as the souls of those
    It would commemorate!

    (James Whitcomb Riley)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Thelma W

    Thelma W says

    Thanks for the add. Check out my new book "The Race for the White House 2008".

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Earl

    Earl says

    My pleasure, C.R. I share your admiration for Fr Neuhaus, who was not afraid to examine critical questions, pace First Things, because the PC clique--including those of the false Right--were afraid to touch them.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • smog

    smog says

    try old man's war by scalzi it feels just like HeinLein's Starship Troopers

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • smog

    smog says

    Looks like you have lots of old school scifi and philosophers on the list. What about the new stuff reading anything interesting?

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Loweyes

    Loweyes says

    Thanks for the note :-) I like your shelf - I was pleased to find The last unicorn and books by Pratchett on it. I haven't come across your books yet, but they sound familiar... Have you by any chance been translated into Danish yet?

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )


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