The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is how to love, and be loved in return – The Sitar that Speaks the Truth, Moulin Rouge In Romans 12:3, Paul calls us to look at ourselves with sober judgment – to think truthfully and honestly about who we are. Then he calls to love one another, and
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I was watching Watership Down, the animated film last week in mourning for my two bunnies – Moonbun, whom I had to give up after fostering for a semester, and Muffin, who passed away in Australia. It’s a beautiful, brave, witty, wise and sweet film – the kind of children’s film that is pretty rare
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My dear Wigglesworm, It’s been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions – you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it’s just hell. Anyhow, outbreaks of gonorrhea and florescent mosquitoes aside, things plod along as usual. But enough about the weather. I note with some consternation that your charge
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and pausing there she looked out to meet the stroke of the Lighthouse, the long steady stroke, the last of the three, which was her stroke, for watching them in this mood always at this hour one could not help attaching oneself to one thin especially of the things one saw; and this thing, the
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I think I revisit this particular poem periodically, but it struck me differently this time, this time because while I agree with Larkin, I also profoundly disagree with him; and history disagrees with him as well, on the matter that church buildings are going into disuse. They are not. Church Going by Philip Larkin
“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:18-19 “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but
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Dartmouth Apologia - Christianity and Art – Emily DeBaun discusses the work of Ben Frank Moss, Dartmouth Studio Art Professor and devoted Christian, and how he treats painting as prayer. Desiring God – Christ’s Power Is Made Perfect in Weakness – not a journal, but a resource. Thinking through Paul’s thorn in the flesh. Closing
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