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Old 09-06-2023, 02:09 PM   #13
TLFisher
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Default Re: Book by James G. Battell

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Simple put, if you haven’t done it, experienced it, especially when it comes to reviews of churches, workplaces, restaurant or anything else of significance, I don’t want to hear your reviews or conclusions.

I know it rubs people the wrong way, which it looks like it did for you. I chose every day to say no to many books and reviews, and just put them in the “fiction section”. Why?, because although it may contain some truth in them, the missing what I call “the soul” of the book, which only can be written about or reviewed by immersing oneself into the particular issue or a group is just not there. The closest review of this movement was done by Neil T. Duddy, and as an outsider at least he did some due diligence to speak with people who were once there, unlike CRI or anyone else since.
Yes, I would put CRI in the same category as Neil Duddy and Jack Sparks. They lack the credibility of Speaking the Truth In Love by John Ingalls, The Thread of Gold by Jane Carole Anderson, and In Wake of the New Way by Steve Isitt. They've done it and experienced it.
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