Mud Pies
Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an…
Continue readingThe God Who Woos
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis spoke of why it is that God does not make it clearer that He exists and is involved with our lives. You must have often wondered why [God] does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and…
Continue readingFifteen Books I Really Like
1. Til We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis2. Perelandra – C.S. Lewis3. The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis4. Night – Elie Wiesel5. Going to Church in the First Century – Robert Banks6. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard7. Teaching a Stone to Talk – Annie Dillard8. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger9. Highlander’s…
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Written By Randy Stonehill© 1989 Stonehillian Music/Word Music (a div. of Word, Inc.)/ASCAP Riding with my family in the ’58 BuickI can still recallHow we’d drive through the valleyTo my Grandmother’s houseEvery summer vacationWhen I was smallAnd I’d gaze out the windowAt the farms and the orchardsCounting the telephone poles passing byAnd the sound of…
Continue readingString Theory
In the early years of the 20th century, the atom – long believed to be the smallest building-block of matter – was proven to consist of even smaller components called protons, neutrons, and electrons, which are known as subatomic particles. Beginning in the 1960s, other subatomic particles were discovered. In the 1980s, it was discovered…
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