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Odds and ends from my mental hard drive

Friday, March 29, 2013

Not slow. Patient.

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This is a lightly edited post from 2008 As I drove the same route I drive every Friday afternoon I was struck by how unremarkable today ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Luther's simple way to pray

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It says something about the kind of man Martin Luther was that he took the time to write a long letter on prayer to his barber. I've be...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

A poem for Holy Week (Wendell Berry)

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What hard travail God does in death! He strives in sleep, in our despair, And all flesh shudders underneath The nightmare of His sepulche...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Quote of the day

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When you have children, you often have to let go of your bohemian fantasies; it's hard to imagine being a parent in a place like San Fra...

Mapping a shot

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Here's a very cool visualization of Steadicam  shots from the first five feature films of American director Paul Thomas Anderson. The fi...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

What comes first. . . doctrine or doxology?

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I've always thought of worship as something that follows theology. First comes the doctrine and then doxology. Right ideas about God lea...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Douthat on religion without renunciation

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Ross Douthat's Sunday column argues that the one thing Pope Francis must  do is restore the moral credibility of the Catholic Church hi...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wednesday Wendell: verses for the fearful

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Every once in awhile I wake up in a deeply pessimistic mood (the reasons aren't important). Pessimistic about the world, and myself, for...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

I am unlimited?

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It's tempting to see this new ad from Sprint as  just an advertisement, part of the wallpaper of noise that constantly surrounds us...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Apocalyptic vision

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There are some books that need to be read, and then immediately read again. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation...
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