“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Terrible Tuesday: Plans for next year
I have plans for next year. Big plans. HUGE plans. I’m going to say “no” to everything. No activities, no events, no sports, no classes, no gatherings, no laundry, no cleaning, no cooking, no dressing. Just no. Actually, that looks a lot like death, which I’m certainly not planning on. Back to the drawing board […]
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Santa! NO!
Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas, and I learned something new. St. Nick wasn’t just a kindly pastor who gave money to the needy; he also punched heretics. The basics are this: Nicholas was a contemporary of Arian, and at the ecumenical council called to sort out the Arian controversy (and eventually we got the […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Hudson River Autumn
The school of painters, not the geographic location, although the location certainly did inspire, didn’t it? No matter who we study — what artist, time period, or style — my heart keeps returning to these painters who so wonderfully captured the beauty of creation. “Autumn of the Hudson River” by Jasper Francis Cropsey. Albert Bierstadt, […]
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Citizen of heaven
Author, scholar, and lawyer, Thomas More died this day in 1535 in an end common to many who displeased Henry VIII: he lost his head. The former Lord Chancellor had disapproved Henry’s annulment to Catherine of Aragon, was absent from Ann Boleyn’s coronation, and finally refused to sign the Acts of Succession. As a Protestant, […]
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Empty Shelf: The Practice of the Presence of God
*This post contains affiliated links Four transcribed conversations and fifteen letters: if that was the record of your life, would it be sufficient? Would your be able to fill that space with anything worth remembering? Moreover, would there be enough wisdom in that brief space that all of Christendom would be quoting you almost 400 […]
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Pondering over a picture
This image came from the ongoing political protests in Ukraine. I’ll admit I don’t really know what’s going on there. The government has banned protests in Kyiv, creepy text messages have been sent to protesters, and people have died. But I don’t know the whys and wherefores of the disagreement. (If anyone has a good sum-up, […]
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The foolishness of God
A heartbreaking letter from a young girl to her older self is making the rounds on the internet. The letter isn’t heartbreaking because of it’s content, but rather because the twelve-year-old girl unexpectedly died and her parents found the letter while going through her belongings. Taylor Smith sounds like a remarkable person and it’s easy […]
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Good and evil
When the forces of good and evil collide, our tendency is to focus on the evil. I don’t know if it’s our innate sense of justice or just the tendency to rubberneck disaster, but the ugly gets the attention. But when we focus on the ugly to the exclusion of the good, we are denying […]
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The impact of grace
Today is St. Patrick’s day, a day on which everyone is Irish even if Patrick wasn’t. Patrick was actually a Briton who was kidnapped as a teen and sold as a slave in Ireland. He spent 6 years as a slave before he escaped. Patrick wasn’t a Christian when he was kidnapped, but he converted […]
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