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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-18
Uninhabited : Jesus Manifesto A parable that's fun and thought provokng to read. (tags: parable story christianity) Literature and Latte: Scrivener – alive and kicking a sneak previw of Scrivener 1.5, coming in the next month or so (tags: scrivener software osx mac writing) Jesus Creed » Friday is for…
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Continue reading →: ★ Hauerwas Recommendations?
I’d like to read some Stanley Hauerwas, never having done so before. Do you have a favorite book of his to recommend?
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Continue reading →: ★ Breaking an Ankle and Travelling to Istanbul
I’m on Airbus A330 operated by Northwest Air, in central Canada just west of the Great Lakes and inching toward Amsterdam with a freshly fractured ankle. It’s been an eventful day, and depending on what time I convince my body of, it’s either 12:33AM, Athens time (is this the same…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-15
quicksilver + scrivener = carpal bliss — Creativityist John's post on Quicksilver and Scrivener. (tags: quicksilver scrivener tools productivity) Literature and Latte Homepage for Scrivener, which John Chandler finally convinced me to use for writing projects (e.g. dissertation; Great American Novel; etc) Designed for use by writers of all kinds,…
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Continue reading →: ★ St. Patrick's Breastplate Wordle
I’ve blogged before about the prayer known as St. Patrick’s Breastplate or Patrick’s Lorica. Here’s the text of this lovely piece of spirituality. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-14
Today's Nun Has A Veil–And A Blog – TIME Time magazine's article on the re-emergence of Catholic monasticism in recent years How Catholic religious communities are trying to attract young people again. – By Harold Fickett – Slate Magazine Slate writes an excellent story on the re-emergence of monasticism (old,…
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Continue reading →: ★ Where I'm Going for Orthodox Trail
Today we got our final itinerary for the upcoming BGU class, The Orthodox Trail. Not knowing my way around Turkey and Romania, I thought it would be fun to map the trip. Here’s a Google Map of the places that we’ll be staying. (The course isn’t going to Athens, but…
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Continue reading →: ★ Fundamentally Wrong
In the past few days a pastor at a John McCain rally prayed that God would protect His name by causing McCain to defeat The Other Guy, since there were non-Christians praying for The Other Guy to win. Here’s a clip: Now, as this election is drawing near, we’re hearing…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-10-13
DANOCASTER VINTAGE REPLICAS Vintage replicas of Fender guitars. Want to see an astounding job of making a relic guitar? Look at the pics of the sold items. Awesome work. (tags: guitar electric fender vintage relic) The Waning Days « Tony Jones Tony Jones writes on why America is NOT an…
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Continue reading →: ★ Song Lyrics / A Prayer that seems appropriate these days
I’m a huge, huge fan of Alison Krauss and Union Station. I truly believe that when it comes time to hear the voices of angels in heaven, it’ll sound a lot like Alison Krauss. So this morning I was listening to some AKUS music, and I ran into this song…


