Bringing It Home to My Cold, Cold Heart

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The Beeb Does Lewis

According to the BBC site on C.S. Lewis
Hear the only surviving footage of C.S. Lewis’s broadcast talks. This is the last episode in Beyond Personality, the third series. It was broadcast on BBC radio on 21st March 1944. We apologise for the sound quality.
The audio clip plays in RealPlayer and is about 14 minutes [...]

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Blessed (Time Capsule: Open 1 May)

Almost two months ago, I wrote the following:
This is a note to myself.
I write this at about 1:00pm on Thursday, 9 March 2006. We were informed by receipt of a letter on Saturday, 4 March 2006, that our landlord was not renewing our lease. We are to vacate our apartment by 30 April 2006.
Here is [...]

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The Rule of Benedict and the Askesis of Service

In chapter 35 of The Rule of St. Benedict, the ordering of the weekly servers in the kitchen is described:
Let the brethren serve each other so that no one be excused from the work in the kitchen, except on account of sickness or more necessary work, because greater merit and more charity is thereby acquired. [...]

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Something Like a Phenomenology of Crisis and Prayer

Let me say up front that nothing written here is to be understood as paradigmatic. I am simply trying to describe, for my own clarity, these present experiences that are my own and no one else’s. If I speak in generic terms, it is because this is my academic training.
When one’s life is [...]

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A Living Elder?

I received a call from my good friend, Kyle Gardner, on Saturday. We’d lost touch of one another for a couple of years (I think prior even to Sofie’s birth in August 2003), but over the last few months, I’ve tried a couple of different ways to contact him a handful of times. [...]

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Anne Rice Interview

Christianity Today has an Interview with a Penitent, vampire novelist Anne Rice.
The first part of the interview provides some (to me) new biographical information. The last part is, if you’ve read her postscript to her novel (as I did standing in the bookstore the other day), familiar.
It’s all good. Go and read.

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Good Frolicking Fun in the Fields of Logic

Over on the Grace-Centered Message boards I frequently visit, there’s been a thread initiated by some anti-fundamentalists over age of earth issues, specifically a critique of young earth creationism. It’s been very entertaining to watch the two main protagonists (or antagonists as the case may be) swagger through the posts on the thread with [...]

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A Film You Have Got to See

Think: Rachel Scott. Columbine. God. Award winning short film. Worth six minutes of your time.
Rachel’s Challenge

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How the Monarche of the Father Relates to Potty Training

Okay, I’m really not going to be able to deliver on the title of the post. But I do want to indicate in broad outline how it is that the recent posts on soteriology (human nature, person, will and freedom) with all their “high-falutin’” jargon actually matter in the here and now.
Take the thesis [...]

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