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Alabama Number 1!! So many stories like this to choose from. D.J. Fluker: "This is better than Christmas."
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This will be brief, because I spent most of this afternoon and evening at the hospital where my daughter Ellen had just given birth to my newest grandchild, James Lucas Tynes. Mother and son are doing fine. Second Thoughts About Christopher Hitchens A few weeks ago I wrote a sort of obituary for Hitchens in which,…
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Nobody has to do anything they don’t want to anymore. —my wife, at the breakfast table this morning
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I haven't had time to write anything this week, being very busy with work and other things. So I was looking through my bookmarks for things I'd kept with the idea of maybe posting them here, or maybe not. This is one I came across back in November. You may be familiar with Jennifer Fulwiler's…
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Sunday Night Journal — January 1, 2012 I've seen a couple of cartoons in the past few days making fun of the arbitrary designation of one day in the year as its beginning, and a moment for new starts and second chances. I normally think such spoilsport demystifying is petty, but I'm a little more…
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Cooper's Oxford Marmalade: Excellent. Doesn't look like the orange marmalade we have here, which is, like, orange, probably with chemical assistance. This is brown. It has a bitter edge of orange peel, which I like and doesn't seem to be present in American marmalade anymore. I thought maybe that was just an effect of my…
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Sunday Night Journal — December 25, 2011 We've had a pretty quiet and very pleasant Christmas Day. Only one of our four children is here, and we slept late and didn't eat breakfast until after 11 or so. Now it's getting late, and I'm sitting in the living room near the Christmas tree and listening…
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For the past several days I've been seeing a story on Google News, which I look at several times a day, with a headline about "The Nun Who Kissed Elvis." I didn't pay any attention, figuring that it was just some silly episode, probably from the '60s, in which a foolish nun developed a crush…
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(Alabama). More information here.
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Instead of attempting to free ourselves from the things of the senses, or abstracting from them, we should try to probe deeper into them; not stopping at their external appearance, which changes, but seeking what is hidden deep in their substance; their being, in a word. For God is Being. And thus we shall find…
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