Sunday Night Journal 2011
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Sunday Night Journal — May 8, 2011 I was out of town this weekend and didn't get back in time to do any writing, so I am revisiting a couple of old SNJs which had not yet been moved from my original site to this one. I was thinking about Perelandra the other day after reading
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Sunday Night Journal — May 1, 2011 I spent most of the 1980s working in software development at a company that built high-end computer graphics systems. Then as much as now the computer industry was very fast-moving and competitive, with technological advances happening at a head-spinning pace, companies appearing and disappearing like mushrooms, and winners
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Sunday Night Journal — April 24, 2011: Easter Sunday I’ve had what can best be described as a very serene Triduum. And I am contributing further to that serenity by allowing myself a day of something more akin to leisure than is generally the case for me on Sunday. Rather than writing something new for
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Sunday Night Journal — April 17, 2011 I spend a lot of time in the car every day, well over an hour, with a 40-45 minute commute each way. When I give up music for Lent, I usually try to maintain complete silence during those drives, but after a couple of weeks I begin to
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Sunday Night Journal – April 10, 2011 Not too long ago I heard someone say that the greatest problem facing the country is the intrusion of religion into politics. He was quoting Jimmy Carter, who is generally wrong about both those things, and I thought it was pretty far off the mark to say that
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Sunday Night Journal — April 3, 2011 As sometimes happens, I’ve chosen a topic and launched into it only to find, when it’s too late to turn back, that I can’t hope to do justice to it in the time available. I’ve tried to hit what I consider the main points, but I’m very conscious
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Sunday Night Journal — March 27, 2011 If you want a single book that will serve as both an introduction to Islam and a careful consideration of its relationship, past and present, to Christianity, I doubt you could do better than this one. The author is an Arab Christian with many years of direct experience
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Sunday Night Journal – March 20, 2011 (I generally try not to give away too much of the plot of a book or movie I’m discussing, but it’s almost impossible to discuss this one without giving away something about how it ends. Since that is more or less revealed, in broad terms, in the beginning,
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Sunday Night Journal — March 13, 2011 This book has been highly recommended to me by more than one person whose opinion I respect. The title and subtitle certainly make it sound like my sort of thing. And I’ve been convinced from an early age (when I first read Keats’s “Ode On a Grecian Urn”)
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Sunday Night Journal — March 6, 2011 Elizabeth Goudge should have been an Inkling. At least from the literary point of view she fits perfectly with those gentlemen who gathered in Oxford at the Eagle and Child, and I’d like to think they would have enjoyed her company, and she theirs. But in any case
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