I recently was re-reading excerpts from the best book on preaching. In it, Keller quotes the philosopher Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, in which he says that “no one has a right to interfere with me for my own good, but only to prevent harm to others.” Taylor was summarizing what might be called […]
Left-Handed Words
Thoughts that slide sideways
Month: January 2020
Prayer is difficult for me. The church fathers knew this. When you read the words of the desert monks (and we all probably should), they talk about their distracting thoughts and sleepy eyes, their lustful desires- all the things that especially ramp up when they knelt down to pray. They understood those distractions as enemy […]
Bach to Basics I like Johann Sebastian Bach. For my money, he’s the greatest Western composer who ever lived. As someone who used to play the upright bass quite regularly, I think you could build a solid technique just by studying the cello suites. I remember the first time my dad played me a recording […]
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