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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…
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Go inside and savor
My youngest has hatched a plan to buy the “red library” (one of our three local branches) for us to live in one day. Here’s our future home: Since we always call it…
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Recently, a few friends and I realized that though we all possessed this book, none of us had read it. We’d felt that we should read it, and perhaps had tried, but none…
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The Knowledge of the Holy
“Who made God?” I overheard my youngest daughter’s question from the other room. “No one,” my husband replied. “It’s a hard thing to understand. We’re so used to everything being made that we…