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A Twice-Widowed Champion of Womanhood
I’m finishing my third read-through of Elisabeth Elliot’s book Let Me Be a Woman. It’s listed on my Books I Love page for good reason, I really do love it. Elisabeth Elliot’s writing has been some of the more influential in my life; it was A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael that largely shaped […]
Post-Modernism and a Hanging Rope
Today marks the 70th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s hanging at the hands of the Third Reich. Bonhoeffer is remembered for his brazen opposition to the rise of the Nazis, and his involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, in an effort to eradicate the wickedness of the movement that was murdering millions of innocent […]
Of Mousy Books and Transcendent Fate
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. –The Tale of Despereaux, By Kate DiCamillo My son and I have recently started reading chapter books together (which incidentally might be one of the most wonderful things in my life; there […]
Buechner’s Bad News
Frederick Buechner was assigned to me in a college class years back, and admittedly I let his book sit on my shelf, mostly because I didn’t like the professor who assigned it and assumed it would be yet another book that would propagate the ideas he held that I found so insulting. I was very […]
Christmas and the German Who Speaks Through Time
i’ve quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer a number of times here, I featured some of his work during my advent series, and I can’t help but revisit him yet again. His words ring so clear as Christmas approaches, and his grasp of truth is timeless. We have selected from the Christmas story only the pleasant bits, forgetting […]
Oceans Never Fill 