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Recent Reads
My last post here was on the 31st of March. By all reasonable expectations, I should have done a fair amount of reading since then. In reality, I’ve read some, and enjoyed it…
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Threads of revelation
From time to time over the last few months, I’ve thought, “I’m done. My blog should be inactivated. I’ve dried up; there’s nothing more to say.” And yet… With the lack of regular…
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Aging Soul
…God became incarnate for the purpose of putting away sin; not for the purpose of Self-realization. The Cross is the centre of Time and of Eternity, the answer to the enigmas of both.…
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Book-marked People
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one…
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Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
Recently, I revisited with my daughters the book some have called Dickens’s masterpiece: Great Expectations. From its gripping opening scene between Pip and Magwitch in the bleak and isolated churchyard, to the concluding…
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The Rocks Don’t Lie
One of C.S. Lewis’s most oft-quoted statements concerns selective reading. “A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading,” he writes in Surprised by Joy.…
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Animal Farm
Most of us are required to read Orwell’s political satire Animal Farm at some point in our high school career. I remember reading it, and even remember vaguely that it was connected with…
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The Book Thief (with spoilers)
It will be awhile before I’m able to see the movie, but I have spent the past week or so reading The Book Thief. I realize I’m way behind the curve on this…
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Anonymusing
We were working on our salad when he seemed to change the subject and asked, as we all sometimes do, about the role of moral authority in restraining a person from doing wrong.…
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Public Speaking 101
I’ve been musing over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent (and highly publicized) comments about the Republican party: Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives, who are right to life, pro-assault weapon,…
