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Reflecting on Christmas
Christmas brought some new discoveries our way. None of them were things I had even heard of, but it’s going to be fun to figure them out. I think they will enrich our…
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Books Read in 2012
Here’s my contribution to Lists Week at the Saturday Review. Below is a list of the books I’ve read in 2012. Over the past few years I’ve read about a book a week,…
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Christmas Books
There’s an opened jelly jar on the counter, dishes strewn on the table, toast crumbs everywhere. But outdoors, we’ve accomplished great things. 9″ of snow! That’s more than we ever got last year…
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The Discarded Image
Have you ever wanted to escape your time? Most of us read at least partly to do just that. But our efforts are limited by something we can’t easily escape: our own minds,…
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C.S. Lewis on “the decline of religion”
In the past I’ve reread C.S. Lewis at this time of year. Usually the essays I go back to are the ones in God in the Dock that relate to Christmas: “What Christmas…
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Order and Chaos
This post was originally published on October 6, 2009: No significant reading going on around here — at least, not for me. I can’t seem to find a book to sink into. I’m…
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Stable
Last weekend, we drove several hours to see a live Nativity that my brother is a part of. It was a re-enactment connected by narrative and music, but to me the most powerful…
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Leaving Church
I was reading Barbara Brown Taylor’s Leaving Church at church the other day as I waited for my children to finish an activity, and a friend asked me what I was reading. “Uh-oh,”…
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Paper Chain
…police told youngsters to close their eyes as they were led from the building so that they wouldn’t see the blood and broken glass. (AP News) “Close your eyes.” It’s usually a benediction…
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Brightness
The other day at the mall, I saw a little, bent, elderly woman walking toward the Hallmark store. She had a look of determination, glancing neither to the right nor the left, and…