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Beating Death at Its Own Game
Eastertide continues, of course, up until Pentecost, which is just under a month away. Here’s another great Easter song. Andrew Peterson did that rare but great thing (almost George Lucas-like) by releasing Resurrection Letters Volume One years before releasing Volume … Continue reading
Forty-Eight and Four Squares
Today is Birthday 48 for me. Not quite as cool a number as 47, which is prime , or as 49, which only has three factors, but it is what it is. I’m hopeful for a mostly normal day: early … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Life in the Fifth Act, Music, The Long Story
Tagged Andy Crouch, Easter, Erik Varden, Four Squares, Steven Curtis Chapman
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“In the Valley of the Shadow”
A great song to remind us that Eastertide continues.
The Deity and the Details
A couple of weeks ago, back in my fifth Lenten reflection using Erik Varden’s The Shattering of Loneliness, I mentioned his use of the church father Irenaeus, particularly his “notion of God and man getting used to each other.” I … Continue reading
Eastertide
Yesterday, a week after Easter Sunday, church was mostly “back to normal.” Which is both understandable and unfortunate. At least with some version of Advent, and the desire to keep the tree up a little bit longer, Christmas gets to … Continue reading
Remembrance Part Four
In one of two chapters on the theological virtue of faith in Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis encourages his readers to see the battle of faith as being between “faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on … Continue reading
Easter Monday
This New York Times piece by Tish Harrison Warren brings a number of really good threads together while reflecting on the reality of Easter. It might be pay-walled, so let me know if you want me to send you a … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Resurrection
Today brought the third quarter of the school year to a close. The quarter both started and ended with a chapel (which I think is pretty rare). After spending most of the quarter with different speakers walk through the fruit … Continue reading
Song for the Weekend
From the July 1997 Cornerstone Festival. Mullins’s The Jesus Record is a good and appropriate album for this weekend.
Lewis and Catastrophic History
Something to reflect on from the introduction of C. S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain: There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be, or to be the son of, or to be “one with”, the Something … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 