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Quarter’s End, Find a Spot
The third quarter of the school year comes to a close today. Time flies regardless of whether you’re having fun or not (and I’ve definitely enjoyed this semester). If all goes well, I’ll get to leave the classroom today and … Continue reading
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Reading Scary Close: The Wedding Bride
The other relational through-line in Scary Close (beyond the guides) is Donald Miller’s bride. When we meet her in the book’s beginning, she has just become his fiancee. It’s a reads like a classic “Miller” moment: I’d spent more than … Continue reading
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Reading Scary Close: A Good Guide is Hard to Find
Donald Miller spent most of his last book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, encouraging readers to tell good stories with their lives, to be heroes of a sort. Early on in Scary Close you get a sense of … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: The Significance of Place
One of the best parts of Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What for me was the preface to the second, expanded edition. One of the significant part’s of Miller’s story that helped me was his simple understanding of place … Continue reading
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Prefacing Scary Close: Intersections
I remember well when my friend Cathy introduced me to Blue Like Jazz and the work of Donald Miller. It was early in my time in Hawaii, and it felt like I was finally settling into some kind of routine. … Continue reading
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The Unfinished Line
This past November I spoke at an area church for the beginning of Advent. While I liked the general content of my sermon (and will surely reuse it somewhere down the road), I have to admit that something felt missing … Continue reading
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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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One Month and Then New Zealand
A few months ago I found a cheap flight to New Zealand and booked it. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time (thanks, Lord of the Rings and the Amazing Race), and it’s something that has given … Continue reading
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Quo Vadis?
Long before he helped bring the cinematic Avengers together as Agent Coulson, Clark Gregg played Calvin Trager, a mysterious entrepreneur who held the fate of Sports Night in his hands. “Where are we going?” he would ask Dana, the fictional … Continue reading
February Finished (All These Things)
Four weeks full of posts: not bad. They weren’t all classics, but that’s okay. Showing up and persisting, those are good things. And so a “classic” from the Killers to commemorate the end of February and the start of March.
