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To be honest, I don't remember the last time I bought a cook book.  Though I have (really over the last few years) developed a love of cooking, mostly I have avoided books on the subject.  There are a few reasons for that.  One, I am reluctant to buy a cook book if I don't know that the recipes will actually be good.  Two, I have a few books I don't use a whole lot and didn't think buying a new one would be neccessary and Three, I have mostly been using the internet as my source for quality recipes.  This book has changed my mind about these things. First off, many of you, like myself would have sampled some of the recipes from the first installment of this book as we were growing up.  When I mentioned to my mom that the Mennonite Girls Can Cook have relieced a new instalment she was nostalgic for the first book and intregued by this second edition.  The recipes included are for things I, as a person from German Mennonite decent grew up eating. ...

I have been wondering since this book arrived how I would handle writing a review for it.  Since the issue of same sex marriage and homosexuality is such a controversial topic and a really heated argument in Church as well at in society.  I did want to read this book however, since I have often wondered if my stance on the subject lines up with scripture and theological debate.  I also have struggled with some of my own views on what I believe and hoped this book would clear that up for me. I believe this book attempts to resolve the tension and strife between the extreme sides of the debate.  Through the analyses of scripture, using logic as well as natural theology the author analyzes the scriptures about marriage and sexuality as well as the theories of those that are both anti and gay marriage.  He mentions early in the book that he was at one time of one opinion on the topic but over time, though prayer and study he changed his views.  This helped m...