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God: the really nice guy who yells way too much…
It seems to me that people who deny the existence or possibility of hell have turned God into a tyrant: "You will sit at this table! You will eat your food! And you will enjoy it! I don't care what you say!" … -
I have malaria again.
Some malaria must have stayed uneradicated somewhere in my liver/spleen and this week came out to make me feel like crap. I'm now on tetracycline and quinine (which makes your ears ring). And that's about all I feel lik… -
The Coolest Thing Ever
Beware, oh ye bibliophiles, lest ye find this website that lets you catalog your books easily and then, if you like, track to see who has a similar library and what books they're reading and would recommend. I say be… -
Dorothy L. Sayers on Work and the Christian
It is the business of the Church to recognize that the secular vocation, as such, is sacred. Christian people, and particularly perhaps the Christian clergy, must get it firmly into their heads that when a man … -
for Julia :-)
Love's Alchemy SOME that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie; I have lov'd, and got, and told, But should I love, get, tell, till I were old, I should not find t… -
Conversation Between St Paul and ECUSA Member
Excited ECUSA Member: Yes! Give it up for us! We just elected a woman as presiding bishop! We are so awesome! Somebody give me a “Pâ€! Give me an “Râ€! Give me an “Oâ€! Give me a “Gâ€! Give me a … … -
Thoughts of the Day - 17 June 2006
It has long been a sort of canard that men don't look for intellectual stimulation from their wives. This gets variously interpreted as a kind of misogynism or sexism, but after thinking about it for a while, I think it … -
Thoughts of the Day - 16 June 2006
If anyone ever says that I have a romanticized view of farming and attempts to debunk my opinion by talking about how it's really a lot of hard work that nobody nowadays wants to do, etc, etc, etc, I'm going to deck … -
Confession and Assurance
One thing I remember hearing fairly often when I was a Protestant was sermons and teachings assuring us that we all had assurance of salvation. Unlike the Catholics, we were told, who were stuck perpetually in that fe…
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