December 2011
5 posts
Meet the Witch of St. Kilda. No, really.
I love Walton Ford’s watercolors. They combine the detail of an Audubon painting with a certain subversive humor that I find compelling. One of my favorites is titled, “The Witch of St. Kilda,” of the recently extinct Giant Auk. The story below, despite sounding rather fantastic and, given the fairly modern date, completely ridiculous, is entirely true.
The tale that comes down...
Gossip or Blood sports at Church.
Gossip, the Christian’s favorite past time. It’s usually couched as sharing vital information for the building up or the protection of others; code word, “sharing in love.” This sharing though, destroys instead of protects and the end result is not a feeling of safety. It also doesn’t sound much like Galations 6 where Paul tells us to, “Bear one another’s ...
How I love Chesterton.
Excerpted from G.K. Chesterton’s book, Heretics:
But they only affect that small minority which will accept any virtue of courage. Most healthy people dismiss these moral dangers as they dismiss the possibility of bombs or microbes. Modern realists are indeed Terrorists, like the dynamiters; and they fail just as much in their effort to create a thrill. Both realists and dynamiters are...
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chasingmeaning:
When do we feel disappointment? When do we experience sadness and emptiness? Many times it is when our expectations are misplaced and/or unmet.
This is typical in relationships and in friendships. If we look at each instance of disappointment, we’ll find that we had an expectation that was…
