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Monday, August 28, 2017
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From photos and floor plans, I could write about what makes Rafe's project special. I could describe colors and light, fixtures and fin...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn on government
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us...
Sunday, August 20, 2017
David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as at...
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Change and staying the same N2
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We will keep clear the distinction between “what we stand for” (which WILL never change) and “how we do things” (which should never stop ch...
Monday, July 10, 2017
New Perspectives - John James Audubon
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pg 25Purple Finch They frequently associate with the common Cross-Bills, feeding on the same trees, and like them are at times fond of ali...
Friday, July 07, 2017
As a democracy is perfected - H.L. Mencken
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As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and...
When I was a boy - Clarence Darrow
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow 1857 - 1938 - President,...
Monday, June 26, 2017
Grief . . . . - Madeleine L'Engle
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But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Someti...
by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts - Madeleine L'Engle
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“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by sho...
Monday, June 05, 2017
CS lewis A Word About Praising” in Reflections on the Psalms
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C.S. Lewis, “A Word About Praising” in Reflections on the Psalms (New York: Harcourt, 1986) p.90-98 It is possible (and it is to be hoped) ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017
AW Tozer - The Pursuit of God
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Preface(The Pursuit of God, AW Tozer) In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conserva...
Thursday, April 20, 2017
If you immediately condemn .....can you still consider a brother" - Martin Bucer
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"If you immediately condemn anyone who doesn't quite believe the same as you do ... pray tell, [who] can you still consider a broth...
Saturday, April 08, 2017
Several amendments should be made to the primary . . . . . . Arthur Capper
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Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with ...
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