Thursday, March 19, 2015

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O ne suicide “hot spot” is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where fourteen hundred people have died, while only a handful have sur...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

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“And the Lord, seeking his workman among the multitudes to whom he thus crieth, saith again: ‘ What man is he that desireth life and would...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Staying Power

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                  In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International                  Convention of Atheists.  1929 Like Gorky, I some...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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A man does not come an inch nearer to being a heretic by being a hundred times a critic. Nor does he do so because his criticisms resemble t...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

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This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentile...
Monday, January 6, 2014

The Peace of Wild Things

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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

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Albert Finney in the 1970 Scrooge: "I will start anew, I will make amends, and I will make quite certain, that the story ends on a note...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

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On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs,sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea wh...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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Sweet Grandchild: "My favorite thing is playing on Grandma's suicide swing."
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At each of life’s forkings a decision is made, and good fruit survives and grows only insofar as the buds of lesser fruit are deliberately c...

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Haffner also speaks of the "automatic continuation of ordinary life that hindered any lively, forceful reaction against the horror...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

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You may not be able to order a beer in Iceland, but misunderstand someone as they're describing the regional elf lore, and you’re in luc...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a ...

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The sun had come up brilliantly after a heavy rain, and the trees were glistening and very wet. On some impulse, plain exuberance, I ...
Friday, November 1, 2013

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The Vietnam Memorial Wall in D.C. contains the names of 58,272 Americans who died in the war. Its message is that the tragedy of that wre...

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According to James Agee, Evans allowed the mothers to clean up their children, if they desired, before he photographed them. Candid shots...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

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Christ alone--of all the philosophers, Magi, etc.--has affirmed, as a principal certainty, eternal life, the infinity of time, the nothingne...
Friday, October 18, 2013

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"David Niven told the engrossing story (I had never heard it) of a single episode in the chaotic flight from France after Dunkirk in...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

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Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And t...
Monday, September 23, 2013

something beautiful

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Friday, September 6, 2013

My Church History

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I was always aware of plural marriage and I knew that Joseph had practised it. But when I first began to study the details, it was by wa...
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Into my heart an air that   kills      From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills,      Wha...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

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In his classic book Leisure: The Basis of Culture , philosopher Josef Pieper notes that “leisure in Greek is skole , and in Latin scola ,...
Monday, July 1, 2013

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On subjects of which we know nothing, we both believe and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dicki...
Monday, June 24, 2013

But Then It Was Too Late

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"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of p...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

On Doing the Right Thing

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“When faced with the prospect that we might have to give up some sin we have come to cherish dearly, we often say something like ‘I would ra...
Friday, June 7, 2013

On Doing the Right Thing

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Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Kofa Mt., Arizona

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembran...
Monday, April 15, 2013

One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop

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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lo...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Primer on Mormon Prayer, by Adam Miller

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A religious life is a life of prayer. Don’t skimp on this or, no matter how white your sepulcher, your insides will always just be full of d...
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met t' know ya

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Consider, for example, the Jewish aristocrat and historian Josephus… who was sent, in AD 66, as a young army commander, to sort out some r...
Monday, April 1, 2013

hey, like, whatever

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Life narratives provide a bridge between developing adolescent self and an adult political identity. Here, for example, is how Keith Rich...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

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  I Jesus is condemned to death The very air that Pilate breathes, the voice With which he speaks in judgment, all his powers O...

"Halfway to poetry"

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So wrote C.S. Lewis when describing “sentences that stick to the mind” from the prose of William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536). What were thes...

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Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy;...

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But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

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What kind of explanation of the development of these organisms, even one that includes evolutionary theory, could account for the appearan...

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Consider a story from the life of D.L. Moody. As a fatherless boy raised in rural poverty, he was once sent several miles from home to wor...