February 2009
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I’ve gotten to the point where just hearing the word “evolution” makes me want to bang my head against the wall. My irritation is mostly with those who believe that “science” has proved that God does not exist, or at least made the likelihood that God exists vanishingly small. But it’s also with those on…
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A few nights ago my wife started reading Martin Chuzzlewit Little Dorrit (which I have never read). She liked the opening so much that she read it to me. It describes the city of Marseilles baking in the sun, and vividly communicates heat, heat, heat. This made me wonder where Marseilles is, exactly—how far south?…
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Sometimes they make me glad I’m unlikely to be here for more than another twenty or at most thirty years. But then I think about my grandchildren. There are a number of things in this article that strike me as creepy. There’s one thing that strikes me as creepier than everything else. I’d like to…
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Someone who signs himself only as “Drew” left a comment on this thread which hits several of the most powerful questions that we all—Christian, atheist, other—must face. I’m not going to attempt to make any kind of complete reply to all of these, but I do have a few observations, and then I’d like to…
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Mrs. T.’s Fine Old Famly and Tobias Danna’s Astonished, Yet at Home (which I think is a Chesterton quote—certainly sounds like him). I’ve always been bothered by blogrolls with fifty or a hundred entries. I think “Surely he/she doesn’t actually read all those.” So I’ve tried to limit mine to the ones that I do…
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If you haven’t already, you should read this post by Amy Welborn. It includes a column her husband wrote a few days before his unexpected and untimely death a few days ago, the subject of which is…unexpected and untimely death. It’s really a little spooky, and very inspiring. Related, this post by Jennifer at Conversion…
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If you like David Lynch, and especially if you like Mulholland Drive but haven’t seen this, you’ll want to, although in my opinion it’s not as good. Although Mulholland is disjointed and obscure and contains a number of things that I never figured out, it does have a story which is intelligible in its broad…
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Van Morrison has released a recent live performance of his masterpiece, Astral Weeks. I read about this at cnb’s blog the other day, and thought, “Why? It can’t possibly have the magic of the original.” Well, you can watch a video of it here and make up your own mind. If you care. This is…
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Praised and over-praised by Tobias Danna, whose blog, Astonished, Yet at Home!, I’ve read before but not recently—so many good blogs out there, so little time. But I’ll correct that, and I do thank him for the compliment. I’m afraid I can’t fulfill the conditions of the award, though—I don’t know enough blogs that haven’t…
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I’m breaking my rule against posting during work hours to pass along this terrible news: Amy Welborn’s husband died suddenly yesterday. This leaves her widowed in her 40s with at least one very young child. Please see and grant her request for prayers at the link above. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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