While they were at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked. He was sitting and listening as Paul preached. Looking straight at him, Paul realized he had faith to be healed. So Paul called to him in a loud
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“All the churches of Jesus Christ, scattered in diverse cultures, have been redeemed for God by the blood of the Lamb to form one multicultural community of faith. The ‘blood’ that binds them as brothers and sisters is more precious than the ‘blood,’ the language, the customs, political allegiances, or economic interests that may separate
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“Culture making requires shared goods. Culture making is people (plural) making something of the world – it is never a solitary affair. Only artifacts that leave the solitude of their inventors’ studios and imaginations can move the horizons of possibility and become the raw material for more culture making. Until an artifact is shared, it
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Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.” … Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her back to Jacob, and he went in to her. And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to
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Afternoon tea—that particularly English custom—is, I have decided, one of the best things in the world. Furthermore, I think that it is a custom well worth bringing back to the United States. First and foremost, of course, an afternoon tea and scone is simply delicious, especially if you elaborate it with cakes and thin crustless
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Hello from St Louis, Missouri! It’s been an interesting trip – and this is my last leg before I head back to Boston! God has been very good to me. Also, at the start of summer I decided I would paint a fish a day in honor of the Fish Tank. I finally got around
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One of my favorite parts from The Brothers Karamazov (so far) is when Father Zosima is talking to the peasants who have come from far and wide to seek his counsel and healing. Although I was aware that such practices existed, having read about them in my atheist years, it was a bit jarring to
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