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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Enjoying the Endgame
I don’t suppose it would be appropriate to say too much about Avengers: Endgame. Caught an early showing late this afternoon. It was a “fan event,” so I walked away with a cool popcorn tub and a metal coin. It … Continue reading
Easter Sunday’s Best
Upon finding this song by Rick Elias that was on Rich Mullins’s The Jesus Record, I discovered that Elias had recently died from cancer. Elias was a founding member of the Ragamuffin Band, which played with Mullins often. The comment … Continue reading
“I’ve Got a Feeling”
In the spring of 1921, some eight years before his conversion to Christianity, C. S. Lewis said this about death: I have seen death fairly often and never yet been able to find it anything but extraordinary and rather incredible. … Continue reading
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“This Is the Day; Let Us Be Glad”
This week has been crazy. Beyond classes, we’ve had student council elections, some kind of chapel each morning, classes, meetings and assemblies, and the pressure of a short week to handle. But the chapels in the morning have been nice … Continue reading
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Lent-towards-Easter
This Lenten-towards-Easter season has had readings from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah’s story was always a bit obscure for me growing up; I was never quite aware of the book’s narrative arc and interconnectedness to the stories of the … Continue reading
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43: Against Abstraction
This week I started reading the letters of C. S. Lewis. I’ve skimmed them many times before. But I’ve never done a full reading like I did with Tolkien a few years ago. So as I start a new … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 