All I know about Lent in two words: “not much.” For more than you may ever have wanted to know, feel free to check out this article. But for what it’s worth – here is what I do know about it and why my praxis is what it is: Lent is the season lasting the…
There’s this great book called “Caps For Sale!” by Esphyr Slobodkina, subtitled A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business. I would highly recommend it – I mean, for under $15.00 you get a great story, and someone to read it to you… It’s the story of a peddler who can’t sell…
I’m back to Mudhouse Sabbath again, for about the zillionth time this year. I think this may be one of the most influential books I’ve ever read. Oh, wait! It’s January. So this is only the first time I’ll have gone on about it this year. Excellent. Well, then. Without further ado… For those of…
I found this, and it made me laugh. I forget what the assignment was, but it was for a poetry class in college, and was inspired by both Leviticus 11 and an actual exchange of letters one summer (the pertinent contents of which form the last lines of the poem). I’ve always been intrigued by…
I heard an excellent lecture yesterday, and learned a few things. (Always good to be able to say that at the end of a lecture!) 🙂 It was on Matthew 7 and the characteristics that ought to define the relationships that Christians are to have with a variety of different sorts of people. The first…
