And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth. Raymond Carver [1938-1988] was an American short-story writer and poet
Apples, Snakes and Bellyaches by Calvin Miller, 1990. When Saint Paul preached in Eff-ee-suss,A sleepy man named Ewe-tea-cussThought he preached redick-cue-less-lee long.As Ewe-tea-cuss was sitting in the window of the churchHe rubbed his eyes and yawned and swayedAnd nodded, dozed, and reeled and lurched. And feeling faint, he fell asleepAnd fell…and fell for forty feet.He […]
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“You help people when they need help, not when you are ready to help them.” “You can be relaxed and dedicated. Just because you worry more, doesn’t mean you care more.”
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Easter Tweet by Russell Moore: Let us eat, drink and be merry,for yesterday, we were dead.Romans 6:4
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NT Wright in Surprised by Hope, pp. 152-154 This is the point at which we modern Westerners are called to make a huge leap of the imagination. We have been buying our mental furniture for so long from Plato’s factory that we have come to take for granted a basic ontological contrast between “spirit“ in […]
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Did you ever wonder why most independent donut shops are run by Cambodian immigrants? Documentary, Donut King – Ted Ngoy, aka Uncle Ted. Frustrations and inability to stop gambling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_NgoyIn 1975, Ngoy fled the Khmer Rouge with his wife and three children to Camp Pendleton. He was employed by a church as a janitor. Winchell’s. […]
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Esau McCaulley, On Hope, Hate and the Most Radical Claim of the Easter SeasonApril 8, 2023 Easter has never been my favorite church service. Shouting “Alleluia, Christ is risen!” requires an emotional crescendo my melancholy temperament can’t easily manage.I’m much more comfortable on Maundy Thursday, the beginning of the Triduum, the holiest three days in […]
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by Warren Buffet – 2022 Shareholders Letter Nothing Beats Having a Great PartnerCharlie and I think pretty much alike. But what it takes me a page to explain, he sums upin a sentence. His version, moreover, is always more clearly reasoned and also moreartfully – some might add bluntly – stated.Here are a few of […]
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Grace is the first and last word of the Christian life, and all of us are desperately in need of mercy and are deeply loved. Faith comes as a gift. And any artisan will tell you that there is something miraculous about their craft. Madeline L’Engle said that any good work of art is more […]
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as ethicist Martha Nussbaum writes, “A good doctor is also a good poisoner.” In other words, the difference between a life-saving doctor and a life-taking poisoner or between an able artist and a master forger lies not in the possession of knowledge or skill, but in its rightful application.
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