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About Temptation
The folks over at Desert Fathers in a Year recently crossed the halfway point of their project. One of the highlights of the project has been the occasional interview with Bishop Erik Varden, who does the exposition of each episode … Continue reading
(Super) Mural and Moments
With last week’s release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the summer movie season has pretty much come to a close. There are still some potentially fun movies coming out over the next month, but they aren’t quite “tent pole” movies … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Splishing and Splashing
There’s a fair amount of summer in today’s Sunday funnies. Roger has Jason mowing the yard over in FoxTrot (and Jason responding with some interesting payment metrics). In the world of Calvin and Hobbes, the summertime explorers find themselves walking … Continue reading
Praying for Humility
Let’s make it three-for-three on the topic of prayer for this week. On Wednesday I shared about about “The Grain of Prayer” from Fred Sanders. Yesterday’s post shared the “longer version” of the Serenity Prayer. Today’s post is about a … Continue reading
On the Serenity Prayer
In yesterday’s post I shared something about prayer. I think it appropriate to do the same today. The Poco a Poco friars are taking the summer off as a way of marking the year of Jubilee, so I’ve been listening … Continue reading
“The Grain of Prayer”
The folks over at Crossway recently posted an excerpt from The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders having to do with a Trinitarian approach to prayer. Like the rest of the book, it is an enjoyable and edifying read. … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Summertime Scenes
It’s summertime in the Sunday funnies. Peppermint Patty and Marcie are spending the day out on a hike and run into something odd in nature. The folks at WuMo bring out a tension that I’ve never understood: reading books at … Continue reading
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My Summer in Scotland
Well, in a weird kind way I’ve spend most of my summer in Scotland. True, I didn’t get any further east than Tennessee this summer in the real world, but in the world of tv, movies, and books, I’ve regularly … Continue reading
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Four Big Questions
Curt Thompson’s The Soul of Desire is the kind of book that paints a picture that you know is beyond your grasp. He’s a professional writing from his own experience about a kind of community-building that he has created and … Continue reading
What You Get, What You Really Want
It seems to me that a good deal of “religious” conversation boils down to two things. The first is conversation as reporting. This usually comes from a good place, a place of some interest and concern. Sometimes it can grow … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 