July 2011
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I'm almost sorry. I already have more music than I can listen to. (What is Spotify?)
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Weekend Music (and Movie) I admit that I'm posting this music mainly because I wanted to say something about the movie, which I watched in three segments over the past week or so. It's almost three hours long, and I had trouble finding a single stretch of time to watch it. I tend to assume…
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‘Depressed’ ferret flees Siberian circus (Link removed due to reported malware found at the destination, a story in the Moscow Times.)
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Somewhere in Chesterton there's a passage that compares the Protestant Reformation to a shipwreck, and it closes with the observation that, as with a real wreck, the survivors are always going back to the wreckage to retrieve something. I thought of that when I read this story about an evangelical group which is practicing perpetual worship. …
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Dear one, it is loving that matters. —last words of Elizabeth Goudge's father
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Whenever Windows starts badgering me about this, which as you might guess it's doing right now, I remember that old warning from somewhere back in the '60s or '70s: "When I want your advice I'll beat it out of you."
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Sunday Night Journal — July 10, 2011 This is something I’ve been planning to mention for some months. It’s been quite a while now—I’m not sure I want to remind myself of just how long—since Dale Nelson sent me a copy of his excellent article on Victorian poet Coventry Patmore’s long poem The Angel In…
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him whom thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day, he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern worship is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself. —Ambrose Bierce A co-worker lent me a collection of excerpts from Bierce’s journalism, and I’ve…
Light On Dark Water 