{"id":8142,"date":"2018-11-05T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:07:46","slug":"wise-and-winsome-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8142","title":{"rendered":"WISE AND WINSOME BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_F0Kb0oqRUJc9Gy&#038;asin=1622823818&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am a Protestant of catholic (small c) and evangelical sensibilities.\u00a0 Even with potential disagreements in reading a book by Roman Catholic authors, I found myself in wide agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Mind at Peace is a short, thoughtful, accessible, and winsome book.\u00a0 The authors wear their learning lightly, but the reader is well aware that they have done their homework.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the title suggests, this book is about helping us have a posture of peace.\u00a0 The authors do a good job of showing that technology is lethal to this kind of peace.\u00a0 Neither of the authors are Luddites, but they are keenly aware of the disastrous effects that constant access to computers and smart phones has wrought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My only slight disagreement may reside with Blum and Hochschild\u2019s more favorable take on Stoicism.\u00a0 They don\u2019t say much about it, but my perception is that we may disagree some on whether some aspects of Stoicism can be of use to the Christian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four out of five stars<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Protestant of catholic (small c) and evangelical sensibilities.\u00a0 Even with potential disagreements in reading a book by Roman Catholic authors, I found myself in wide agreement. A Mind at Peace is a short, thoughtful, accessible, and winsome book.\u00a0 The authors wear their learning lightly, but the reader is well aware that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-spiritual-life","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}