…they couldn’t all want Archetypes coming down on them, not if they were like most of the religious people he had met. They also probably liked their religion taken mild — a pious hope, a devout ejaculation, a general sympathetic sense of a kindly universe — but nothing upsetting or bewildering, no agony, no darkness, [...]
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I missed the Poetry Friday round-up yesterday. Fridays are so busy for us that I haven’t been able to participate much this year. But my friend Ruth has an interesting post on tears in the “new normal” since the earthquake in Haiti. My first thought was of this Jill Briscoe poem, which I’m familiar with through [...]
“Looking at Stars,” by Jane Kenyon The God of curved space, the dry This poem prefaces Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter. Though I’m not planning to delve much into the book [...] In his sermon on the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, George MacDonald makes the point that Jesus and Satan use scripture in different ways. In the second temptation, when Satan urges Jesus to throw himself from the pinnacle by quoting, “It is written, ‘He will give his angels charge over Thee,’” Jesus replies, “You [...] Recently, my husband read Neil Anderson’s Victory Over the Darkness. It’s about our identity in Christ, and it’s been an extremely influential book for him. I read it a few years ago, and somewhere — I think at our former church — I picked up a bookmark that lists the various lies we believe about who [...] Father of compassion and God of all comfort, Comfort those in pain – Comfort those who suffer injury and those who suffer loss You who have known sorrow and grief. When you walked this earth and saw injury, you had compassion making the lame to walk and the blind to see. You did not blame the victim for the affliction, or condemn [...] I read the story of Lazarus this morning, and this poem came to mind. We think of martyrs as those who die for their faith. The early centuries of Christianity include so many examples of believers withstanding this ultimate test. In Lazarus’ case, Lewis invites us to think of a different kind of courage, and [...] My parents gave me a special gift this Christmas: the Life with God Bible. Here is how it’s described on the Renovaré website: Five years in the making, The Life with God Bible (formerly published as the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible) seeks to recover the dynamics of Scripture for the spiritual transformation of the people of [...] 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 days, but the account in Mark 5 serves for a reference. What I noticed today was the way that Jesus asked who had [...] 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 on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave [...] |
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