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Waking Up the Dead . . . Again
A few days ago I posted some thoughts on my Thanksgiving Day viewing of Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery: Wake Up Dead Man. As I mentioned then, I really appreciated what Johnson was able to do with the sincerity … Continue reading
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In the Darkness, Waiting (Advent Week One)
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which marks the beginning of a new year in the church calendar. (Last Sunday was Christ the King Sunday, a recent addition to the church calendar that mostly only liturgical churches celebrate.) As … Continue reading
Waking Up the Dead
I’m curious to see what Christian writers will have to say about the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man. It’s the find of movie that will likely infuriate one end of the spectrum and bring out some misguided … Continue reading
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Sunday’s Best: What Dreams May Come?
I recently finished A Pilgrimage into Letting Go by Andrew and Kara Root. It’s an interesting gloss on Hartmut Rosa’s thinking about the (un)controllability of the world. Today’s Sunday-sized Frazz has some nice overlap with Rosa’s thinking, too.
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Dark to Dawn
Last week marked ten years since the release of Andrew Peterson’s The Burning Edge of Dawn. It’s an album that has brought much encouragement to me over this last decade, the opening track in particular. Here’s a version of “The … Continue reading
Twenty Years of The Far Country
This past week, Andrew Peterson celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of The Far Country. It was the first of his albums after Carried Along that I learned to feel deeply, that tapped into something I was still just … Continue reading
“Beyond Sentiment”
Here’s a great excerpt from this week’s Desert Fathers episode by Erik Varden about Christian joy lived out over time: So my fidelity must be rooted at greater depth, beyond sentiment. St Benedict stresses this when, in the midst of … Continue reading
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“A Foolish Thought or Maybe…”
Today we turned the first corner of the new school year in class: we started our second unit of study, which involves reason and arguments for God’s existence, with a discussion of “Maybe There’s a Loving God.” Here’s a recording … Continue reading
Lifted
Many years ago,during the short window of time between college and seminary, I served as an interim at an area mission church. At the end of every service, which would often number three a week, we would make a circle … 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
Space Enough, and Time 