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Believing with Mumford and Sons
Count me among those interested in what a banjo-less Mumford & Sons sounds like. The band just released their first single from the new album, Wilder Mind. You can check out that new song, “Believe,” below. It builds well, though … Continue reading
Stories as Catechism
Author N. D. Wilson recently gave an interview for DRTV’s “Above the Paygrade” show. It’s a good thirty minutes and is time well spent for those who like to think faith, the world, and books. I especially like what he … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: “Then you make me crawl”
A song appropriate for the end of the week.
Thirty-Eight Years and Never First
From the Gospel of John (English Standard Version from biblegateway.com): After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has … Continue reading
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Body Talk: Use Somebody
The system, then, is broken. Love is removed from the heart of the communal life. Malfunction, something worse than normal wear and tear, sets in, things rubbing the wrong way, making things worse in the long run. So what to do … Continue reading
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Young Lewis Worried
From Alan Jacobs’ The Narnian, a biography of C. S. Lewis: I have already noted that [Lewis’s] education and his experience had combined to stifle his imaginative side; he seems to have been determined, at this stage of his life, … Continue reading
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Body Talk: Malfunction
And so “where two or three are gathered” and their loves are out of order, there begins the breakdown of the body of believers. This disordered love leads to a real problem that could have catastrophic results. Let’s call this malfunction. … Continue reading
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Body Talk: Out of Order
And so the apostle Paul assumed that “building up the body” had something to do with growing up together, Christian and Christian, growing up into Jesus, the body’s head, and that sometimes each part isn’t “working properly.” Why does that … Continue reading
Body Talk: Breakdown Theory
A few years ago I (somewhat grudgingly) took the StrengthsFinder test for work. Of the five strength themes, connectedness, empathy, and relator surprised me the least. Input was a nice way to label what had become my renewed appetite for … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: “Yet to be Sung”
We’re just over a month away from the new Death Cab for Cutie album, Kintsugi. Once again Ben Gibbard and company do a great job of taking sobering lyrics with interesting musical compositions. Here’s the video for the first single, … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 