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Thursday, December 15, 2016

The difficulty of seeing Christ (Dorothy Day)

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If everyone were holy and handsome, with “alter Christus” shining in neon lighting from them, it would be easy to see Christ in everyone...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

How men become scoundrels (C.S. Lewis)

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The following quote is from an address C.S. Lewis gave at King's College in 1944, published as "The Inner Ring" in The Weight ...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

The American voice

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On December 12, 1915 Francis Albert Sinatra was forcibly wrenched from the womb. The forceps permanently disfigured the left ear and chee...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

From skyscrapers to mosaics (re-posted from 2012)

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I've been enjoying Renewing the Center by the late Baptist theologian Stanley Grenz (1950 - 2005). I picked this book up on a whim at a...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

In praise of ambiguity

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   Late Tuesday evening while most American sports fans were watching Game 3 of the Cubs/Dodgers series, I watched a recording of a socc...
Friday, October 14, 2016

The power of feelings (Dallas Willard)

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This is how Dallas Willard begins Chapter 7 "Transforming the Mind: Spiritual Formation and Our Feelings" of Renovation of the Hea...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

How to pray during hurricane season (originally posted in 2008)

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Reports are starting to come in from the islands in the path of Hurricane Ike , as now it bears down on impoverished Cuba. Reports of 80 per...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Diabolical Faith (Thomas Merton)

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This year I've been reading a lot of Merton. Many of the meditations in this collection  have faith, and the life of faith, as subjects....
Monday, August 15, 2016

Plain talk from Dallas Willard

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Here's another foundational statement from Renovation of the Heart : We must clearly understand that there is a rigorous consistency...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

A reason to vote for Trump

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My favorite moment of the presidential campaign happened back in February when Donald Trump stood before a crowd of Republican establishment...
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