April 2010
“Without war, people grow torpid in riches and comfort, and lose the power of...”
– Dostoevsky on a letter to his niece, 1870
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March 2010
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“Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves”
– Physicist Richard Feynman
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God's Warriors...1 part dispensationalism, 2 parts... →
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Sonnet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sorrow trembles down my spirit’s ways-
Uncomplaining, dark as night she seems;
Snowy-pure, like blossom, are my dreams,
Consecration of my stillest days.
Often, though, the great unanswered Why
Bars my way, and I grow small and quake,
As before the waters of a lake
Whose deep waves I do not dare to try.
Then a grief descends on me more grey
Than a gleamless night of summer...
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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn...”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Hey…there’s that pretty man.”
– Evan (little boy at church, when he saw me walking by)
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“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to... →
“The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing.”
– Richard Rohr
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Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine →
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I...”
– Emily Dickinson (via Dead Writers)
A poem read by Emily Dickinson →
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Jon Stewart, Fundamentalists and Oscar Romero →
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What has happened to the conscience of our country... →
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which...”
– Flannery O’Conner
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Jesus washed the feet of those he loved, could you... →
“Dreams seem to be induced not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;...”
– Jawaharal Nehru
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Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers →
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be...”
– C.S. Lewis
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What if Kids' Drawings Were Done With Skill →
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Drunk Ecclesiology →
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America’s God by Stanley Hauerwas →
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