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Divine life in human conditions
Hence, as a better writer has said, our imitation of God in this life — that is, our willed imitation as distinct from any of the likenesses which He has impressed upon our…
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But for what nature does to us
Many people — I am myself one — would never, but for what nature does to us, have had any content to put into the words we must use in confessing our faith.…
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Heart of Darkness
This is one classic I was never assigned in my voyage through academia. Having recently read Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, I decided now would be a good time to continue the focus on…
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Parenting food for thought
This is a post that’s been in my drafts folder for about a year. It has to do with a book I haven’t finished called Kids Are Worth It! by Barbara Coloroso. It’s…
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Fox tales
Back in the spring, we heard a gray fox bark nearly every night for awhile. It’s a disturbing sound, screamy and rather tortured. (There are some examples at youtube.) It would always begin…
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The Poisonwood Bible
There are currently 1,545 reviews of this novel already listed at Amazon. What can I possibly add? Nothing. Yet I’ve just had my own personal experience of the book nonetheless. I blog partly…
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Blending in
We had no internet until this afternoon, so I’ve missed one of my favorite memes — the What’s On Your Nightstand roundup at 5 Minutes for Books. It was a rounding-up kind of…
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Week in Words: Signs
As I drove through Owego the other day, 2 1/2 weeks or so after the Susquehanna crested at 15 feet above flood stage and washed most of the town in toxic river sludge,…
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Sacred Reading
If someone had mentioned “sacred reading” to me before this week, I would have assumed they meant a literary genre — a category of books focused on sacred topics. But since delving into…
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