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Remembrance Part Three
Perhaps the most sobering of Erik Varden’s reflections on remembrance in The Shattering of Loneliness comes in the third chapter. The chapter is centered on Jesus’s command in Luke 17 to “remember Lot’s wife.” The command to remember Lot’s … Continue reading
“The Rare Chance”
Something I appreciate about the thinking of Seth Godin is that he finds a way to blend the possible and the practical. And he crafts some great one-liners in the process. A recent post of his, “On Building a Cathedral,” … Continue reading
Reading in Lent
One of the practices I’m trying to hold to during the Lenten season is the reading of shorter books. Small thing, I know, but it feels somehow fitting. The season started as I finished up Zena Hitz’s Philosophers Look at … Continue reading
Remembrance Part Two.Five
Last week as I was thinking the second thing to remember from Erik Varden (remember you were once a slave in Egypt), a song from long ago came to mind. A bit of context from an odd source first, though. … Continue reading
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Remembrance Part Two
For me, most Lenten seasons start with the “bang” of Ash Wednesday but quickly fall into a slough of messy hopes and habits. That’s a cost of being interested in the church calendar as a member of a church that … Continue reading
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Peter’s Clarifying Question
Ah, Peter. It is always good to be specific when you ask a question that is easily misinterpreted! Otherwise, a clarifying question is necessary. This Sunday’s FoxTrot by Bill Amend: (image from gocomics.com)
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Wilderness Training
The first (and perhaps primary) image of Lent is of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness. It’s a moment in time that three of the four Gospels capture, a hinge moment between Jesus’ baptism by John and the beginning of His … Continue reading
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Doubts and Ladders
This week my department started discussing Matthew Lee Anderson’s Called in Questions, which is about the importance of asking questions in the Christian life. We had a good conversation about the first chapter or so, with opinions about the place … Continue reading
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Getting Somewhere Together
Besides the song that I shared yesterday, there’s been one other song that’s been on my mind. And it’s a song that has been around for most of my life. I remember when Tracy Chapman won a Grammy for “Fast … Continue reading
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“Where My Feet Are”
I discovered this recently recorded song by Andrew Peterson thanks to the comments section for this article from Mockingbird. A few years ago, I started encouraging our students with “wherever you are, be all there,” especially if we were at … Continue reading
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