A Little Magic Now and Then is Relished By the Wisest Men My brother-and-sister-in-law recently got me into on N.D. Wilson’s podcast. If you’ve ever read his non-fiction, you know that he’s something of a Christian Platonist. He sees (rightly) that the grass in your backyard or the crumbling brick buildings downtown are imbued with […]
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The “Bright Sadness” of Lent A Commination In older versions of the Book of Common Prayer, there’s a section called “a commination.” It has a rather weighty variant subtitle: or denouncing of God’s anger and judgments against sinners with certain prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as […]
It’s late September and that means that it is now culturally appropriate to embrace my spooky side. Pumpkin spice everything is all well and good, but I love the darkening days and ghost stories and howling chill that delightfully shivers. I imagine a little Edgar Allen Poe sitting on my shoulder, muttering creepy “nevermore’s” into […]
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