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Sunday’s Best: Meaningful Moments

There’s some good summer humor in the funny pages today.  FoxTrot has an interesting take on real pools and the heat index, while Frazz sees Caulfield and Dr. Spaetzle having a philosophical talk about July turning into August. But today’s … Continue reading

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A Tuesday Recap

Tuesday was a bit of an odd one for people in Hawaii.  It started out normal enough for me: the final morning of our “spiritual emphasis” time before heading into more meetings and classroom prep for the new school year. … Continue reading

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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

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(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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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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