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Hiding from Love
I’ve been taking my time with Hiding from Love. Written by one of the authors of Boundaries, it explores the intricacies of human personality from a biblical perspective, focusing on the ways we…
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Orthodoxy
I finished Chesterton’s autobiographical book Orthodoxy a few days ago. I loved it and will probably read it again. We’ve all seen Chesterton quotes floating around here and there, and they’re always pithy…
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Healing and Hiding
This morning, I read a story that’s always intrigued me: the woman with the hemorrhage who came through the pressing crowds and touched Jesus’ robes. I’m using a harmony of the gospels these…
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Chesterton’s advice to writers
Some passages just need to be shared. This one is from the chapter “The Romance of Orthodoxy” (in Orthodoxy). Chesterton is on his way to a larger point, but I have to stop…
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A larger and truer confession
Someone forwarded Ben Stein’s CBS Sunday Morning “Confession” to me by email. Mr. Stein uses the following exchange as a springboard for discussing God’s alleged departure from America: Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed…
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Reading the OED
There’s a word for me: Anonymuncule (n.) An anonymous, small-time writer. Turns out there are words for all kinds of things, more words than any of us knew about. Ammon Shea discovered this…
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The Mouse of Amherst
Some time ago, another blogger mentioned The Mouse of Amherst in a Poetry Friday post. I ordered it immediately, but not until yesterday did the right time come for Elizabeth Spires’ 61-page imaginative…
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
What would you do if you were an 11-year-old girl with a passion for science around the turn of the century? What if you wanted to read The Origin of Species, but the…