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They did not make the mistake of thinking that the good is attained unwittingly and that hours have merely to be lived in order to arrive at the goals of living. To communicate with the goal, one has to address himself to it.--Abraham Heschel

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes....
Saturday, December 13, 2008

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"His Saviours Words, Going to the Crosse" — Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Have ye no regard, all ye Who passe this way, ...

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little-known fact: your blogster and Irene Papas were formerly social friends.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky stands shivering in the middle of Semenovsky Plaza in St. Petersburg, Russia, the next in line to die. It is December 22,...

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CHRIST CLIMBED DOWN Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with ...

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

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WHILE my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playin...

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All of us must honor virtue, and even pipe up for it, despite our own imperfections. To accuse a man of claiming all the virtues he praises ...

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Someone commented that Wayne Booth’s critical stance ultimately rooted itself in love and that the core act in loving one’s neighbor was sim...

Why did Dirk Willems Turn Back

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I will begin by dealing with the embarrassing questions that the Gospels impose, I imagine, upon any serious reader. There are two of these,...

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A growing body of scientific evidence which shows that dietary supplementation with vitamin D, fish oil, and molecules found in red wine (re...
Friday, December 5, 2008

St. Kevin and the bird

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And then there was St Kevin and the blackbird. The saint is kneeling, arms stretched out, inside His cell, but the cell is narrow, so O...

Tragic News Item

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Derek Yothers, in a photo taken just months, or even weeks, before his death. MATTOON, IL—In a press conference Monday, Mattoon-area police ...

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G.K.

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A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spir...
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