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a work of GENIUS
When P.G. Wodehouse, possibly the best comic writer who ever lived, had his first novel published, he sent a copy to his friend Bill Townend with these words inscribed: To Villiam Townend these first-fruits of a GENIUS at which the WORLD will (shortly) be AMAZED (You see if it won’t) from the author Sep 28.…
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rowing out to the darkness
It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem. In making the thick darkness a swaddling band for…
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thoughts on “Being the Body”
I just finished reading Being the Body by Charles Colson and Ellen Vaughn. A friend lent it to me months ago, but during the school year I don’t get much chance to read. Anyway, the book’s central theme is the Church in its worldwide (“the church universal”) and local (“the church particular”) incarnations. Colson presents…
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Religion BookLine on Creating Culture
Religion BookLine, a division of Publishers Weekly, published this interview with Andy Crouch, author of Creating Culture, today. Crouch says, “As I read the work of academic sociologists like Peter Berger I became really convinced that the only way that cultures change is when people make more culture—which called into question a lot of the…
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gifted
“The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.” Proverbs 20:9 I wrote the fantasy novel Worlds Unseen six years ago. At the time, I had some loose ideas about what it could say–besides telling a good story, which was my first priority! It touched on some of my…
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Tales from an Irish Hermitage
A few months ago, I was contacted by a nun in Ireland. She was trying to self-publish a book and wondered if I could give her any advice on formatting. I already knew her through an online community and had enjoyed her writing very much, so since I had a few weeks of vacation ahead…
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Flashpoint: A Review
Review of Flashpoint by Frank Creed Review by Rachel Starr Thomson The year is 2036. The place, Chicago—under control of a worldwide government called the One State. A father drives his children through the rain and drops them off under a bridge before fleeing the “Peacekeepers” on his trail. Little do Dave and Jen know…
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small ones
Four years ago, on a beautiful night in late June, my sister Tabithah was born. (I assume it was a beautiful night. Chances are it was humid and very warm, but I know it was green, and it wasn’t raining. In any case, the event made it beautiful.) I was twenty years old. Taba and…
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saintly service
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him would Paul have to go forth…
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Comforting Miracles
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not…