Miscellany
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Good Friday: Nourishing Words
On Good Friday we remember the strange pairing of defeat and triumph, of suffering and power, in the Son of God. John Donne likens Christ to a sun that gave every appearance of…
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Playing with my new camera
A few months ago, the LCD display went blank on our camera. We could take pictures, but we could no longer see what we were capturing until the pics were downloaded to the…
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Matters of life and death
Yesterday I got out the egg tree. Some of these eggs are from when I was a child. Some are made by my daughters. I always enjoy this little display during this Easter…
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Moral duty and hamsters
We have had so much fun with the inhabitants of New Hamsterdam, founded on Christmas of 2009. Teddy, short for the Empress Theodora, is my older daughter’s hamster, and she is a sweet…
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Edutainment
Here’s a report on a North Carolina school system that has issued laptops to all students. They’ve “gone entirely digital,” meaning that they use the computers in every aspect of classroom experience. Says…
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Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians
Let’s get the embarrassing part out of the way first: yes, I read the large-print, abridged version of this book. It wasn’t my first choice. I’d put the original version on my Christmas…
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Encouragement from Chesterton
As I look at the world, I worry. Earthquakes. Floods. Unrest sweeping the Middle East. “Wars and rumors of wars.” Decadence. The church, deeply influenced by surrounding culture. America so deeply in debt…
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Look…
It might not look like much to you. Dirt, with bits of feeble green poking through. But a week and two days ago, it looked like this: and this: and this: A few…
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The Everlasting Man
The Everlasting Man (1925) is G.K. Chesterton’s response to H.G. Wells’ Outline of History. Chesterton took issue with Wells’ evolutionary interpretation and his ensuing book is one of the ten C.S. Lewis credited…
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Brokenness: The Heart God Revives
The other day I pulled open the kitchen drawer where I keep my Bible, and saw my old photocopy of this list. It’s a comparison between proud, unbroken people, and broken people. I’ve…