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Monthly Archives: May 2008
“Every man has forgotten who he is…”
I’ve been meaning to read G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy for a while now, and finally started it a couple months ago after a friend, Dave Heller, told me he was in the middle of it and loving it. I’m making my … Continue reading
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New book from Matthew Paul Turner
Matthew Paul Turner’s newest book, Hokey Pokey – Curious People Finding What Life’s All About, is fortunately not about five steps to finding your purpose, as one might at first assume. On the back cover, beneath the J.R.R. Tolkien quote, … Continue reading
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Quote of the week: Truthful Conversation
In the acknowledgments at the beginning of his book The Gospel According To America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea, David Dark thanks a group of friends “for exemplifying the kind of conversation that makes disagreement a breakthrough rather … Continue reading
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Festival of Faith and Writing – Jeffrey Overstreet – “Through a Screen Darkly”
(Sorry for the delay in blogging the rest of my notes from the Festival. I’ll try to get the last four or five posts up sometime in the next week or two.) Jeffrey’s second session was Through a Screen Darkly: … Continue reading
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Unexpected Satire
When I was in Chattanooga a couple weeks ago visiting family, I went downtown on Saturday afternoon with my mom, my sister, and her fiancé to walk around and enjoy the weather. Walking thru Coolidge park, we passed a used … Continue reading
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You Against You – Eric Peters
This past Friday, I drove over to Murfreesboro to hear a friend of mine, Eric Peters, play a concert. He has a song called Save Something For Grace that I love. In the first verse, he sings, “midnight / at … Continue reading
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Flannery O’Connor on Faith
Re-reading some old Rabbit Room posts, I came across this Flannery O’Connor quote in the comments section of a post about one of her books that reminded me of one of my posts from a while back, Weak and full … Continue reading
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Revival: A Monologue
How I Got Saved, Got Lost, and Failed to Overthrow the Imperialist Bourgeoisie is the subtitle of the monologue my uncle has been performing in Seattle the last couple of weekends, based on his upcoming book, Revival: A Memoir. This … Continue reading
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Frederick Buechner on Sunsets and Silence
As evidenced by some of my recent posts, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ways that we make ourselves known to each other and the ways that we try to hide who we really are, sometimes without even realizing … Continue reading
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How to write good satire
Okay, I’ve said before that it is hard for me to write satire because I read stuff in papers like The Sword of the Lord and The Biblical Evangelist that are exactly what I would write, except they go even … Continue reading
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