You see, and you turn – that is the thing, which for a moment casts open the beauty of all the world – all concentrated, all of a sudden, in a single melodic line – and you want to turn to the person besides you and say, Look! Look! I have never been happy...
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Tags: beauty, jesus, love, lyric, poetics, prayer, vision
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What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4 What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not...
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Tags: beast, body, depravity, God, jesus, John Donne, love, penitence, prayer, repentance, sin
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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...
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Tags: anthropology, bioanthro, culture, exegesis, Genesis, jacob, leah, love, marriage, polygamy, polygyny, psychology, rachel, sexuality, sisterhood
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My family from around the world (from Mexico to Pennsylvania to Northern California) recently assembled in Capistrano Beach for some family bonding. Since the Fourth of July, I have been in a series of arguments with one of my atheist uncles about God. My uncle has asked several times during the course of our...
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Tags: atheism, authority, children, God, heaven, love, sin
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1. I AM the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. 2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in...
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Tags: Arthur Miller, deuteronomy, exegesis, God, jesus, kingdom of god, law, literature, love, moses, old testament, priorities, scripture, ten commandments, the crucible
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Hello people! Having meandered around the top bit of the Midwest, I made it to Chicago, Windy City (for its politics, not its wind, though there is literal wind here too) and a little bit of Indiana that is just outside of Chicago. But enough about me: Irreligious - Epistemology and god: Rationalists are...
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Tags: chauvinism, empiricism, epistemology, God, husbands, japan, love, marriage, Ongs on the way, philosophy, rationalism, sunday link love, wives
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Last week, I was reading a book and came across an appendix written by someone I know personally, a man named Jack Frederick. Jack served as an elder in my church in Boston and now lives in Atlanta, but he grew up in rural Alabama, and he carries with him everywhere the gentle, carefree...
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