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The Challenge of Admiring C. S. Lewis
From Alan Jacobs’ “Lewis at 100”: Many years ago V. S. Naipaul noted a peculiarity of the Indian attitude toward Gandhi: everywhere in India Gandhi was venerated as a saint, but the social conditions against which he railed for so … Continue reading
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Yes, I Want to Thank Someone
Few songs get it as right as Andrew Peterson’s “Don’t You Want to Thank Someone,” and I’m thankful that he has put together a video for it, even though it’s an edit (the original is almost 10 minutes long). I … Continue reading
Being on Someone’s Side, in Good or Bad
Friendship in the grown-up world is still something of mystery to me, but I am thankful for the music of Andrew Osenga, which often reminds me of the challenge to love and be loved.
Fiction Writing and Real Living
Near the end of my college career, I took a fiction-writing class. It was not my crowning college achievement. I wrote one pedantic short story about some college student taking the bus home only to . . . well, I … Continue reading
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Holding It All Together
One of the best seminary lectures I ever sat through was a one-off given by a graduate student trying out his skills for a Systematic Theology class. He asked us to list off all of the different terms used in … Continue reading
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With 12 Notes, 6 Strings, and a Million Little Mysteries
I am so thankful for musicians and the music they find and make and share. Andrew Peterson’s music has been a big part of my life’s soundtrack these last few years, so any new music from his is always … Continue reading
April Showers Bring Good Thinking
A few weeks ago I found myself with an odd longing: I felt the need to track down any Caedmon’s Call music missing from my collection. While I’ve been a fan since ’97, I’ve never really dug into their smaller … Continue reading
On Lewis and the Nature of Reality
We just started a unit on creative non-fiction in my Faith & Literature class. I thought reading some of N. D. Wilson’s short essays would be a nice place to start. We recently watched this short video from Wilson about … Continue reading
Singing Rich Mullins
Local cable television played an old concert of Rich Mullins this evening, which was a wonderfully nice surprise. As great as it was seeing him sing “Elijah” and “Sometimes by Step,” it was his rendition of “Sing Your Praise to … Continue reading
On Thinking Christianly
From an interview with Francis Spufford, author of Unapologetic: That music you hear in the distance? It’s St Augustine, St Teresa, Teilhard de Chardin, Pascal, Kierkegaard and Simone Weil all singing together, and what they are singing is that, as … Continue reading
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