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  by A. Daniel Bodine
  ISBN13: 978-1-4257-6895-9 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN: 1-4257-6895-4 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN13: 978-1-4257-6900-0 (Hardback)
  ISBN: 1-4257-6900-4 (Hardback)
  Pages: 55
  Subject: RELIGION / General

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MINIMALISM: Does God Need More Assistants? is one common man´s attempt to examine the depth and savagery of the U.S.´s current social and economic morality crisis from the perspective of some of the New Right´s passive predestination tenets; and suggests at least we begin thinking about reining in the multitude of freedoms we have now as one of the cures. I wrote the short book (religious but folksy and humorous in places) in an effort to explain how the birth parents of our adopted daughter could have abandoned her at age 4 on the potentially dangerous streets of Chihuahua, MX. Minimalism, the breaking of our personal or communal bondage for the sake of greed, selfishness and self-seeking,is the culprit, I found--i.e., putting your focus on yourself rather than life around you cheapens both. Currently I´m the sole JP and municipal court judge in all of the southern half of a drug-infested, sparsely populated Far West Texas border county that´s one of the largest in Texas. Also I spent 20 years writing and editing (and some publishing) in the Sunbelt trenches of Texas daily and weekly newspapers, and gathered quite a number of writing awards for it. Presidio, considered by many a Chihuahuan Desert "hellhole," was a godsend. Divorced and in bankruptcy in the D-FW region with a failed newspaper chain, sick of minimalism and jeered at even by friends because of strong editorials and opinion writings, I went into self-exile to the mountainous, hot, desolate ruggedness of this Far West Texas community in 1989. It is located just across the Rio Grande from it twin port city, Ojinaga, Mx. Disappearing only with meager earnings into a different culture and the harshest of environments to take over a weekly newspaper, I later had to take on an unwanted JP job as a second income just to keep the newspaper afloat. And now I´m happily remarried with a delightful daughter thrown in to boot. "Minimalism" is a chapter excerpt of a larger book being written I hope to someday publish entitled Adopting Kareli: Minimalism and Immigration on the Rio Grande, in which I also describe this spiritual renewal the desert has given me. It challenges your way of thinking.

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