tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57912614861111543182024-03-18T19:22:14.535-05:00Faith, Fiction, FriendsTalking about faith, fiction, poetry and occasionally artGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger5921125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-87903586429099504112024-03-18T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-18T05:00:00.137-05:00"Lovers at the Museum" by Isabel Allende<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkBPXZQKjlvdxkcZ2LLIYvtavlFzrScWTFi77ZiEdEF35fVrJRTPzktFzRJzHZUbMWJG6EjVrtEeTtGGWaJmtStzKMcsHusNtg_Bc6_zqnqOloYpMc8gn8hFD-v6VQ218cFxhRupPNnZU4Q7EYsCVhtQ-OO-z_2cWTgiX2Mk3ZmML-JiIIgAMsLL1JEQ/s500/Lovers%20at%20the%20Museum.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkBPXZQKjlvdxkcZ2LLIYvtavlFzrScWTFi77ZiEdEF35fVrJRTPzktFzRJzHZUbMWJG6EjVrtEeTtGGWaJmtStzKMcsHusNtg_Bc6_zqnqOloYpMc8gn8hFD-v6VQ218cFxhRupPNnZU4Q7EYsCVhtQ-OO-z_2cWTgiX2Mk3ZmML-JiIIgAMsLL1JEQ/w426-h640/Lovers%20at%20the%20Museum.jpeg" width="426" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />A night watchman at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, makes a startling discovery – a young man and woman are asleep in one of the galleries. They’re discovered in front of a metal sculpture entitled “Rising Sea” by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The young man is naked; the young woman is wearing an elaborate bridal gown. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inspector Larramendi of the Bilbao police is one the case, except he’s not sure exactly what the case is about. No one knows how the lovers got through the locked doors; the couple say the door was open. They claim they were in the museum throughout the night and never saw a guard. The would-be bride had fled her wedding ceremony, sobbing. She found a young stranger, and the got exceedingly drunk. They both independently claim the museum had suddenly appeared in front of them, like a magician’s trick. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They suspect the museum might be enchanted. Inspector Larramedi, the “Hound of Bilbao,” is inclined to agree. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lovers-at-Museum-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B0CNQD45VQ/ref=sr_1_1 " target="_blank"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStNs8VOzT5aSXIaoniu-BiYUIFfVx7WtLMbRZMc2E4P8-ksRUTTWOr4fz7xFUbIC8Zi_nFj9z8Xa-5HKU4DsjSqWTD8SeoFrhyK0rOHUEsNSsHNRMh5roN63969wLakdkxov9TfmI-Lq2QEIItBf-x7EXe1JSRVO-uIU2wbnQEDVw3zIOgMR7rwqf0JM/s540/Isabel%20Allende.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStNs8VOzT5aSXIaoniu-BiYUIFfVx7WtLMbRZMc2E4P8-ksRUTTWOr4fz7xFUbIC8Zi_nFj9z8Xa-5HKU4DsjSqWTD8SeoFrhyK0rOHUEsNSsHNRMh5roN63969wLakdkxov9TfmI-Lq2QEIItBf-x7EXe1JSRVO-uIU2wbnQEDVw3zIOgMR7rwqf0JM/s320/Isabel%20Allende.jpeg" width="261" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isabel Allende</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Lovers at the Museum</a></i> is a new short story by the acclaimed writer <a href="https://www.isabelallende.com/en " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isabel Allende</a>, and the reader will be forgiven for thinking he or she has taken a step into magic realism. This might happen in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo or the Lima of Mario Vargas Llosa (in fact, I was reminded of the telenovelas of <i>Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter</i>). The Guggenheim in Bilbao is <a href="https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en" style="color: #96607d;">a real museum</a>, whose architectural style might be called “anti-architecture” or “melted metal.” The sculpture cited in the story is <a href="https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/the-collection/works/rising-sea" style="color: #96607d;">a real metal sculpture</a>, and the inspector can be forgiven for at first thinking it’s a large curtain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Allende has previously published <i>The House of the Spirits</i> and some 25 other books. Born in Peru, raised in Chile, and now living in California, she founded a charitable foundation after her daughter died in 1996. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Monday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://countercraft.substack.com/p/whats-american-fiction-without-the" style="color: #96607d;">What’s American Fiction Without the Short Story?</a> – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/the-farm-woman-speaks" style="color: #96607d;">The Farm Woman Speaks</a> – Gracy Olmstead at <i>Plough Quarterly</i> on the novels of George Eliot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/have-the-liberal-arts-gone-conservative" style="color: #96607d;">Have the Liberal Arts Gone Conservative?</a> – Emma Green at <i>The New Yorker</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-da-henderson" style="color: #96607d;">The Prophets: D.A. Henderson</a> – Joe Nocera at The Free Press on how not to fight pandemics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-17085397753338534642024-03-17T05:00:00.005-05:002024-03-17T05:00:00.136-05:00The hardening<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTv3_dyz4wRHwMfPj5zYv36W0pxa0DcIqAmijPVIcYavyqddikdHGnP1D620SFlgQS99KBWadoeAcfec6n6_Ka2GRHIzlxwwfqjXtSPRw1VCqDLjKDG09sU90wSAB9HWCLj4lQ2f4goaUSAiicr3-t9OaBq88aYEwumlpecqLMzpjilIL2X2491eG/s5184/The%20hardening.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTv3_dyz4wRHwMfPj5zYv36W0pxa0DcIqAmijPVIcYavyqddikdHGnP1D620SFlgQS99KBWadoeAcfec6n6_Ka2GRHIzlxwwfqjXtSPRw1VCqDLjKDG09sU90wSAB9HWCLj4lQ2f4goaUSAiicr3-t9OaBq88aYEwumlpecqLMzpjilIL2X2491eG/w400-h266/The%20hardening.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 3: 1-19</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The deceit, the lies,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the untruthfulness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">harden as they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">happen. They grow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">within us, causing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">us to turn our heads,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">look away, avoid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all mirrors, fell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">our hearts harden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and die. We are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">expert at deceiving<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ourselves; we are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">professionals skilled<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">at hardening our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But remember that original<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">confidence, that assurance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It softens; it lasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hold on to it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Jan Canty via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/QVdHXiuyMB4" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Sunday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-frost-at-midnight" style="color: #96607d;">Frost at Midnight” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sylviaschroeder.com/god-never-needs-updating/" style="color: #96607d;">God Never Needs Updating</a> – Sylvia Schroeder at When the House is Quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/st-patrick-a-sonnet-9/" style="color: #96607d;">Saint Patrick: A Sonnet</a> – Malcolm Guite.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-22929288344836863722024-03-16T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-16T05:00:00.280-05:00Saturday Good Reads - March 16, 2024<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjLD_9KZMqTlk18hTS95cJGIBBoOiTCtPCIG298NtEhA-dVv3guSYwCwQbYAIumFiwUn4reVuPQIzeGjBrwcwFI_zWJpeKLVdSq4DJ56G0FUbvXv5ifQpwO55q8yJbeu0jVCHSmmQqpWY7A1_Ej53rr-ZPvo7jQ21uK0evwHGfZcZf2G63f4GZuEa9zY/s400/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjLD_9KZMqTlk18hTS95cJGIBBoOiTCtPCIG298NtEhA-dVv3guSYwCwQbYAIumFiwUn4reVuPQIzeGjBrwcwFI_zWJpeKLVdSq4DJ56G0FUbvXv5ifQpwO55q8yJbeu0jVCHSmmQqpWY7A1_Ej53rr-ZPvo7jQ21uK0evwHGfZcZf2G63f4GZuEa9zY/w480-h640/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I worry as much as anyone about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on America. I am not on TikTok. This week, the House of Representatives, by a lopsided bi-partisan majority, passed a bill that requires Byte Dance to divest TikTok in the United States, or be banned. But the devil is in the details (it’s always the fine print). The bill does what it says, but it also expands the power of the President and the security agencies to go after far more than TikTok. The left but not the right might be fine with that if the President is Biden. But what if the President is Trump? The legislation could slice and dice both ways. See Matt Taibbi at Racket News on “<a href="https://www.racket.news/p/why-the-tiktok-ban-is-so-dangerous" style="color: #954f72;">Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous</a>.” </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You read it online (it’s difficult to find in the daily newspaper), and you think “all this anti-Semitism stuff is being exaggerated.” You might think that, and you would be wrong. Consider Ron Hassner, a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s. Times have changed, and <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/berkeley-professor-is-sleeping-office" style="color: #954f72;">the professor is now sleeping in his office</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a perennial topic of concern among poets, anyway. The death of poetry has been proclaimed for a long time, its revival on Instagram, YouTube, and the above-mentioned TikTok notwithstanding. Poet and writer James Matthew Wilson takes a look at the “<a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-patient-on-the-table-on-the-somewhat-exaggerated-death-of-poetry/" style="color: #954f72;">somewhat exaggerated death of poetry</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Good Reads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life and Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://stillchasinglight.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/gods-of-the-quid-pro-quo/" style="color: #954f72;">Gods of the Quid Pro Quo</a> – Greg Doles at Chasing Light.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/old-ireland-stirs/" style="color: #954f72;">Old Ireland Stirs</a> – Mehmet Çiftçi at The Critic Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Israel / Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/war-gaza-just-beginning/" style="color: #954f72;">The war in Gaza is just the beginning</a> – Douglas Murray at <i>The Spectator</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers" style="color: #954f72;">How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers</a> – Abraham Wyner at Tablet Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-the-holiday-from-history-is-over" style="color: #954f72;">The Holiday from History is Over</a> – Bari Weiss at The Free Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-for-once-then-something" style="color: #954f72;">“For Once, Then Something” by Robert Frost</a> – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://davidwhyte.substack.com/p/the-edge-you-carry-with-you" style="color: #954f72;">The Edge You Carry with You</a> – David Whyte.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/revival-in-the-making" style="color: #954f72;">Revival in the Making: God’s Central Means for Spiritual Renewal</a> – David Mathis at Desiring God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sethlewis.ie/2024/03/13/patrick-loved-ireland-before-ireland-loved-patrick/" style="color: #954f72;">Patrick Loved Ireland Before Ireland Loved Patrick</a> – Seth Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://rder.toasttab.com/online/big-sky-cafe-47-south-old-orchard-ave" style="color: #954f72;">How Do Our Kids Stay Christian?</a> – Cameron Shaffer at Mere Orthodoxy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/latinos-are-flocking-to-evangelical" style="color: #954f72;">Latinos Are Flocking to Evangelical Christianity</a> – Marie Arana at The Free Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">American Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/glad-to-the-brink-of-fear/" style="color: #954f72;"><i>Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></a> – reviewed by Nicole Penn at American Purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/carson-mccullers-lonely-passion-mary-dearborn/" style="color: #954f72;">Carson McCuller’s lonely passion</a> – review by Scott Bradfield at <i>The Spectator</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://crimereads.com/revisiting-in-the-fog-an-americans-ode-to-englands-foul-weather/" style="color: #954f72;">Revisiting <i>In the Fog</i>, an American’s Ode to England’s Foul Weather</a> – Leslie Klinger at CrimeReads. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">British Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/what-are-our-cathedrals-for/" style="color: #954f72;">What are our cathedrals for?</a> – Allan Breck at The Critic Magazine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/story-2/" style="color: #954f72;">Story</a> – Sonja Benskin Mesher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jerusalem (Live) – City Alight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJLCStVt1gc" width="320" youtube-src-id="cJLCStVt1gc"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Painting: The Reading Lesson, oil on canvas by Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (1817-1892)</i>.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-68409943406998737822024-03-15T05:00:00.003-05:002024-03-15T05:00:00.127-05:00The bodies fall<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0nWq3a2v7jHg7sLG_VYuRtSDR4n3SvxPJZ2GTK3hZTmXGByYJdTPZ-DNSMi2UQZ45loJsyWtu3PhfvydWefMHhURahRuK4P5xuLBLK_5hTyyU3SCF2Rix2a9R5_dq6hgB-UbQQpsu2i3GvqR30uZ9Yt6JYKgBaspX-PpljascqfiiQXRT3l7AZbph/s7952/The%20bodies%20fall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5304" data-original-width="7952" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0nWq3a2v7jHg7sLG_VYuRtSDR4n3SvxPJZ2GTK3hZTmXGByYJdTPZ-DNSMi2UQZ45loJsyWtu3PhfvydWefMHhURahRuK4P5xuLBLK_5hTyyU3SCF2Rix2a9R5_dq6hgB-UbQQpsu2i3GvqR30uZ9Yt6JYKgBaspX-PpljascqfiiQXRT3l7AZbph/w400-h266/The%20bodies%20fall.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 3:16-19</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Provoking wrath, they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">wander forty years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abandoning faith, they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">live in the wilderness,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">forty years, depending<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">each day on food and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">sustenance. They,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">this generation, have<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to be taught faith. As<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">they learn, as they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">wander, their bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">grow old, their bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fail, their bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fall in the wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Claudio Schwarz via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/cw2bX6cQ8Zs" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Friday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/03/10/samson-tribe-of-dan-a-poem-by-alexander-king-ream/" style="color: #96607d;">Samson, Tribe of Dan</a> – poem by Alexander King Ream at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://kingdompoets.blogspot.com/2024/03/jesse-keith-butler.html" style="color: #96607d;">Villanelle of the Elect</a> – Jesse Keith Butler at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://revdaveharvey.com/when-my-rights-make-me-wrong/" style="color: #96607d;">When My Rights Make Me Wrong</a> – Rev. Dave Harvey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/book-review/the-receding-tides-of-new-atheism/" style="color: #96607d;">The Receding Tides of New Atheism</a> – Pip Witheridge at The Gospel Coalition.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-48620516280754878272024-03-14T05:00:00.003-05:002024-03-14T05:00:00.128-05:00'Gone South" by Meg Moseley<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_GG1Chv9cGO3ao8vVQFyJLF-7cJGBZclQHFlYeRjWmL4zLgUnCvPn85RpCqclzHU-g93ub0M-zy97R0AJ8u1dIrKVQIP5Wiiityk3x7jHtAP4EaFvNAWY9krIBlJ56JhP9U2-5bS6MvBWVo6y78NtVECyXGst7ADkiTNQ74hM_xOg0XHaI_UavA_0O8/s1000/Gone%20South.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_GG1Chv9cGO3ao8vVQFyJLF-7cJGBZclQHFlYeRjWmL4zLgUnCvPn85RpCqclzHU-g93ub0M-zy97R0AJ8u1dIrKVQIP5Wiiityk3x7jHtAP4EaFvNAWY9krIBlJ56JhP9U2-5bS6MvBWVo6y78NtVECyXGst7ADkiTNQ74hM_xOg0XHaI_UavA_0O8/w266-h400/Gone%20South.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tish (short for Letitia) McComb lives in Michigan. She’s helps her mother move to Florida, and she decides to take a meandering way back through Noble, Alabama. She visited the town once with her father; the McComb family had strong ties there, with ancestors having lived there for a long time after the Civil War. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During her visit, she encounters something unexpected – a rude reception from a few people. But she likes the town and discovers that the old McComb home is for sale. She makes an offer, it’s eventually accepted, and Tish finds herself moving.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What she encounters is hostility from most of the townspeople, and it’s because of her family’s history. The McComb legacy is one of people who came south after the Civil War as carpetbaggers, took advantage of people, and essentially pilfered and stole. Tish has old family letters that suggest a different story, but they don’t outright contradict the town’s memory and feelings. And the hostility is making it difficult for Tish to find a job.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbJQiuC9Yl4v8tSlliFS-0ZRr-Zy4H7p3nwTfTwlJf7ScCTcOMoNfn9N-71OfM8rC_zRowskSTkpefpuVgF7xozLcweLZ7xRuoZ_FU8CuHKDF5IjLwRTHvumcSBr7Pt192fc8UyEzGJGxPsgvdvTtR1SOypg-QLZdmVNITzjvWP885BpIfTI8qHEr9b0/s600/Meg%20Moseley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbJQiuC9Yl4v8tSlliFS-0ZRr-Zy4H7p3nwTfTwlJf7ScCTcOMoNfn9N-71OfM8rC_zRowskSTkpefpuVgF7xozLcweLZ7xRuoZ_FU8CuHKDF5IjLwRTHvumcSBr7Pt192fc8UyEzGJGxPsgvdvTtR1SOypg-QLZdmVNITzjvWP885BpIfTI8qHEr9b0/s320/Meg%20Moseley.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meg Moseley</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">So is her decision to offer a temporary home to Mel Hamilton a 20-year-old girl infamous for alleged theft from her own parents, getting in trouble generally, and essentially being homeless whenever she’s in town. A carpetbagger and a thief under the same roof! About the only person who’s friendly is George Zorbas, owner of an antique store, and he knows both the McComb legacy and Mel’s reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gone-South-Novel-Meg-Moseley-ebook/dp/B00A5MRFGU/ref=sr_1_1" style="color: #96607d;">Gone South</a></i> by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004FSL5F2/about" style="color: #96607d;">Meg Moseley</a> is Tish McComb’s story. It’s officially classified as Christian fiction, but the faith-based element is downplayed. That said, it’s a clean story, without profanity or sexual situations. I enjoyed it, but feeling sympathy for the characters was a tough go until about halfway through the book. I also wanted to know more about both the old family letters and the McComb family history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moseley has previously published two novels, <i>When Sparrows Fall</i> and <i>A Stillness of Chimes</i>. She’s also contributed to several novella and story collections by different authors. A native Californian, she lives with her family near Atlanta. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Thursday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/this-17/" style="color: #96607d;">This</a> – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://crimereads.com/genre-communicates-a-contract-with-the-reader/" style="color: #96607d;">Genre Communicates a Contract with the Reader</a> – Micaiah Johnson at CrimeReads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.acton.org/religion-liberty/volume-34-number-1/catholicism-and-slavery-setting-record-straight" style="color: #96607d;">Catholicism and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight</a> – Samuel Gregg at Acton Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-the-woman-of-three-cows" style="color: #96607d;">“The Woman of Three Cows” by James Clarence Mangan</a> – Justin Blessinger at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/alaa-legal-aid-attorneys-antisemitism-congress" style="color: #96607d;">Union Lawyers Call Jewish Colleagues ‘Deranged’ and ‘Fascist’</a> – Francesca Block and Eli Lake at The Free Press. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-57088569936617647362024-03-13T05:00:00.002-05:002024-03-13T06:34:02.114-05:00“Resolve: The Church That Endures Onward” by Luke Herron Davis<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwn9AdwHj4bd88ffPvmqUChxPLu60fjK-zHo4QqQby00NXcaskp2eOfzqaRNZPlmH9Tez44Q0e0MVOc5SkfLE1zopi7_Na62N1I0KXlPTRGMnMXt-oZ56r99rHUW4CMNKTYn5wjd2UZ7nUcbIkv_CSM71t4vm2jlzJrPLdQ4DmCcqxHNbXl4RXCdke77I/s640/Resolve.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="415" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwn9AdwHj4bd88ffPvmqUChxPLu60fjK-zHo4QqQby00NXcaskp2eOfzqaRNZPlmH9Tez44Q0e0MVOc5SkfLE1zopi7_Na62N1I0KXlPTRGMnMXt-oZ56r99rHUW4CMNKTYn5wjd2UZ7nUcbIkv_CSM71t4vm2jlzJrPLdQ4DmCcqxHNbXl4RXCdke77I/w416-h640/Resolve.jpeg" width="416" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Over the past two years, <a href="https://www.christianfocus.com/contributors/2128/luke-h-davis" style="color: #96607d;">Luke H. Davis</a> has been publishing a series of books on church history, written for young people. First came <i>Redemption: The Church in Ancient Times</i>. It was followed by <i>Reign: The Church in the Middle Ages</i>; <i>Reform: The Church at the Birth of Protestantism</i>; and <i>Renewal: The Church That Expands Outward</i>. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The final volume, covering the period from 1890 to 2023, is <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Resolve-Church-Endures-Onwards-Risen/dp/1527111067/ref=sr_1_1" style="color: #96607d;">Resolve: The Church That Endures Onward</a></i>. It’s written in the same easily readable and accessible style as its predecessors. Davis explains history by telling stories, imagined (or re-imagined) conversations and events in the lives of key figures in the church over the modern period. While many might lament the state of in the 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> centuries, Davis has a very different story to tell. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This history includes chapters with familiar names – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Corrie ten Boom, Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, and J.I. Packer. And it includes chapters with names well-known in their time but lesser known today, like Sammy Morris, B.B. Warfield, J.C. Ryle, Francis Grimke, Elisabeth Eliot, Eta Linnemann, and Benjamin Kwashi. Davis selects a key event in the lives of this Christians, dramatizing them to tell his stories. It’s a very effective way to introduce the subject (and people) to younger readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wx1qkYxZU3M0TBfUi33JZAGoqm2FfQEO71XK-bR2AGKxedPL6POmWOmBJH9P2gdh0E1z1SUk5umF_WIT5ntBoV54p_k2jLp-kVX0owQEoXVg00eKekV8Y8O8Uma8enQpKXZ604Gxio3v1UyXrlVbIjDnxJcB4eEFrUfv1rWrBBs7wUXxnVAA50idB38/s400/Luke%20Herron%20Davis.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wx1qkYxZU3M0TBfUi33JZAGoqm2FfQEO71XK-bR2AGKxedPL6POmWOmBJH9P2gdh0E1z1SUk5umF_WIT5ntBoV54p_k2jLp-kVX0owQEoXVg00eKekV8Y8O8Uma8enQpKXZ604Gxio3v1UyXrlVbIjDnxJcB4eEFrUfv1rWrBBs7wUXxnVAA50idB38/w200-h200/Luke%20Herron%20Davis.jpeg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luke H. Davis</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />He also includes chapters entitled "Fact Files" that highlight other well-known figures, like the great preachers and orators, persecuted Christians, and popular apologists.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aimed as it is at younger readers, from beginning to end it also reminded me of the people and writers who have played a major or minor role in my own Christian faith, including, Billy Graham, C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, and J.I. Packer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Resolve</i> is a fitting conclusion to the church history series and a solid read as a standalone volume. Davis has poured some major effort into assembling these volumes, and we – young and old alike – are the beneficiaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #222222;">Davis teaches at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.wcastl.org/" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: none;">Westminster Christian Academy</span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> in St. Louis and chairs the Bible Department there. He’s also taught at schools in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia. He describes himself as “Presbyterian body, Lutheran heart, Anglican blood, Orthodox spirit,” all of which have served him well in writing the Cameron Ballack mysteries.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> He has published three Ballack mysteries, <i>Litany of Secrets</i> (2013), <i>The Broken Cross </i>(2015), and <i>A Shattered Peace</i> (2017), and the first book of a new series, </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jo%C3%ABl-Merivalkan-Chronicles-Book-1-ebook/dp/B076Y6BVPG/ref=sr_1_2" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span color="windowtext"><span style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: none;">Joel: The Merivalkan Chronicles Book 1</span></span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">(2017). He blogs at <a href="https://graceandkingdom.blogspot.com/" style="color: #96607d;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">For Grace and Kingdom.</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Related</span></b><span style="color: #222222;">: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/03/redemption-church-in-ancient-times-by.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Redemption: The Church in Ancient Times</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Luke H. Davis</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/03/reign-church-in-middle-ages-by-luke-h.html" style="color: #96607d;">Reign: The Church in the Middle Ages<span style="font-style: normal;"> by Luke H. Davis</span></a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/05/reform-church-at-birth-of-protestantism.html" style="color: #96607d;">Reform: The Church at the Birth of Protestantism</a></i> by Luke H. Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/05/renewal-church-that-expands-outward-by.html" style="color: #96607d;">Renewal: The Church That Expands Outward</a></i> by Luke H. Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2013/07/reading-novel-that-stars-your-hometown.html" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><br /></span><span style="color: #888888;">Reading a Novel that Stars Your Hometown</span></a>.<u1:p></u1:p><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2013/07/litany-of-secrets-by-luke-davis.html" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="color: #888888;">My review of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><i><span style="color: #888888;">Litany of Secrets</span></i></a>.<u1:p></u1:p><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-broken-cross-by-luke-davis.html" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="color: #888888;">My review of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><i><span style="color: #888888;">The Broken Cross</span></i></a>.<u1:p></u1:p><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-shattered-peace-by-luke-h-davis.html" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="color: #954f72;">My review of <i>A Shattered Peace</i></span></a>.<u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2020/06/tough-issues-true-hope-by-luke-davis.html" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="color: #954f72;">My review of <i>Tough Issues, True Hope</i> by Luke Davis</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Wednesday Readings</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/steve-nikoui-kareem-state-union-heckler-interview/" style="color: #96607d;">‘My kid’s name resonated in that body’: Steve Nikoui’s interview after State of the Union outburst</a> – Matthew Foldi at <i>The Spectator</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/03/booknotes-campaigns-of-non-combatant.html" style="color: #96607d;">Booknotes: <i>Campaigns of a Non-Combatant</i> by George Townsend</a> – Civil War Books and Authors. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2024/03/12/people_hate_daylight_saving_science_tells_us_why_1017636.html" style="color: #96607d;">People Hate Daylight Savings. Science Tells Us Why</a> – Teresa Carr at Real Clear Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2024/03/12/the-bull-pen-at-bentonville/" style="color: #96607d;">The Bull Pen at Bentonville</a> – Bert Dunkerly at Emerging Civil War.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-77721523196751979632024-03-12T05:00:00.003-05:002024-03-12T05:00:00.141-05:00Poets and Poems: May Swenson and "Collected Poems"<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJTBeqPcReEigdEV6LMtqRkCSVbB7-cE_3gs1j8pmKGC2XKQqXX3Ls-kyKWggft3XUufZMuvdXK1nr4mV-h5Ks5OUxfvJhnKqJIGmipcOIOrVN5SgFRSTFE-Qil6AtFXm2S8Mj0mp_5R6LbHnC3CyAKKBqGSoVwGsH4_lykyeyPhF3lSSbLbT1J4Dwqw/s1000/Swenson%20Collected%20Poems.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="615" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMJTBeqPcReEigdEV6LMtqRkCSVbB7-cE_3gs1j8pmKGC2XKQqXX3Ls-kyKWggft3XUufZMuvdXK1nr4mV-h5Ks5OUxfvJhnKqJIGmipcOIOrVN5SgFRSTFE-Qil6AtFXm2S8Mj0mp_5R6LbHnC3CyAKKBqGSoVwGsH4_lykyeyPhF3lSSbLbT1J4Dwqw/w246-h400/Swenson%20Collected%20Poems.jpg" width="246" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />“A characteristic of all poetry,” poet May Swenson once wrote, “that more is hidden it in than in prose. A poem, read for the first time, can offer the same pleasure as opening a wrapped box.” The pleasure, I suspect, was both in the anticipation and the discovery. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Swenson (1913-1989) is considered a major poet of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. She published nine collections during her lifetime; three additional collections were published posthumously. Her poems were widely published in literary journals and magazines. She received a bevy of awards, ranging from the American Introductions Prize in1955 to Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. For the last nine years of her life, she served as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She also translated and published a volume of poems by Tomas <span style="background: repeat white; color: #202122;">Tranströmer</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading, please see my post today at <a href="https://wp.me/p2vgeH-dIK " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tweetspeak Poetry</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Tuesday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dust-dust" style="color: #96607d;">Dust to Dust: W.H. Auden writes poetry for a world marked by death</a> – Helen Rouner at Commonweal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/03/11/good-intentions-a-poem-by-warren-bonham/" style="color: #96607d;">Good Intentions</a> – poem by Warren Bonham at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-the-english-epigram" style="color: #96607d;">The English Epigram: Two poems from Walter Savage Landor</a> – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-29198447934238340062024-03-11T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-11T05:00:00.139-05:00Some Monday Readings<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPV0g8nz-9k6X_BuoocTnsUQwzO2-uUtvTGKYtZKfQ6p-o7c1elzztjojcIzlW13ubR7X0uJK1DKhPogrqOtpnqZVjpyLCDnIOvSFZBAN_sryfeBGXkQbGRB_oS1XA3v9tfqAiHjVz09IBfnRinv8UaNclYSALM5ym5quGP8k-FLrRKA3e6cuT5Xyb_Qs/s4032/j-znBKxS5_eQA-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPV0g8nz-9k6X_BuoocTnsUQwzO2-uUtvTGKYtZKfQ6p-o7c1elzztjojcIzlW13ubR7X0uJK1DKhPogrqOtpnqZVjpyLCDnIOvSFZBAN_sryfeBGXkQbGRB_oS1XA3v9tfqAiHjVz09IBfnRinv8UaNclYSALM5ym5quGP8k-FLrRKA3e6cuT5Xyb_Qs/w480-h640/j-znBKxS5_eQA-unsplash.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />In December 1939, C.S. Lewis preached a sermon at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. Entitled “Learning in Wartime,” he addressed the question of whether continuing to study at university was rather meaningless in a time of war. It’s become one of his most famous sermons, one of nine included in the volume <i>The Weight of Glory</i>. It’s been <a href="https://unknowngodjournal.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/taug-decal-reader.pdf" style="color: #96607d;">reproduced in this pdf document</a>, but you’ll need to cursor down to page 95 to find the sermon. I include the link to the pdf document because Douglas Murray’s excellent essay on the sermon, “<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-cs-lewis" style="color: #96607d;">C.S. Lewis on Keeping Calm in Chaos</a>,” may be behind a firewall at The Free Press. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Monday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/four-lessons-for-fragile-america" style="color: #96607d;">Four Lessons for a Fragile America</a> – Seth Kaplan at Tablet Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/03/are-rural-white-people-the-problem" style="color: #96607d;">Are Rural White People the Problem</a>? – Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-moroccan-sultan-who-protected-his-countrys-jews-during-world-war-ii-180983903/" style="color: #96607d;">The Moroccan Sultan Who Protected His Country’s Jews During WW II</a> – Theo Zenou at <i>Smithsonian Magazine</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/dei-killed-chips-act-000000900.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00" style="color: #96607d;">DEI killed the CHIPS Act</a> – Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson at The Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/jamie-kreiner-how-to-focus" style="color: #96607d;">What Monks Know about Focus</a> – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/10/a-visit-to-great-tom-at-st-pauls-i/" style="color: #96607d;">A Visit to Great Tom at St. Paul’s</a> – Spitalfields Life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.wingedelmfarm.com/blog/2024/03/10/a-tale-of-two-ewes/" style="color: #96607d;">A Tale of Two Ewes</a> – Brian Miller at A South Roane Agrarian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://alondoninheritance.com/london-parks-and-gardens/tavistock-square/" style="color: #96607d;">Tavistock Square</a> – A London Inheritance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Photograph: St. Mary the Virgin Church, Oxford, UK, by J via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-concrete-building-under-white-clouds-during-daytime-znBKxS5_eQA" style="color: #96607d;">Unsplash</a></i>.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-21243309804750291752024-03-10T05:00:00.004-05:002024-03-10T05:00:00.134-05:00The house or the builder<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTC5cKYcerDV6pesKcqilQgqq9Jo0cwZLx1NoPl570RCynEWvlJDQCgQCQAfLLbTxyO_2JqCkWDV9PBXoZxMXBtFJJw_LJTkeHwCGNQ-FWOIvBbubmYFAAATEVl0COf700V6E7JR2zu_oYl3eJJ-SWdHDTWWCpmbOUsBVj7XSVp2q3JLojV9gG3Y08/s5389/The%20house%20or%20the%20builder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5389" data-original-width="3593" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTC5cKYcerDV6pesKcqilQgqq9Jo0cwZLx1NoPl570RCynEWvlJDQCgQCQAfLLbTxyO_2JqCkWDV9PBXoZxMXBtFJJw_LJTkeHwCGNQ-FWOIvBbubmYFAAATEVl0COf700V6E7JR2zu_oYl3eJJ-SWdHDTWWCpmbOUsBVj7XSVp2q3JLojV9gG3Y08/w426-h640/The%20house%20or%20the%20builder.jpg" width="426" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 3:1-19</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What deserves the reputation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the glory, the house or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the builder of the house?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which is greater, deserving<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">our praise? We can admire<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the house, but it is the builder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to whom, of whom, we<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">sing our praise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because the builder is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the greater, we put our faith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in him. Remind each other,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">daily, encourage each other,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">daily, not to fall away, not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to harden our hearts, not <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to be imprisoned within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the deceitfulness of sin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the deceitfulness of our<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">own hearts. Hold firm,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Jacek Dylag via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/nhCPOp4A2Xo" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Sunday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/mothering-sunday-a-sonnet-7/" style="color: #96607d;">Mothering Sunday</a> – sonnet by Malcolm Guite.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.str.org/w/two-common-mistakes-christians-make-about-government" style="color: #96607d;">Two Common Mistakes Christians Make about Government</a> – Robby Lashua at Stand to Reason. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ivf-created-embryos/" style="color: #96607d;">How Christians Should think about IVF-Created Embryos</a> – Joe Carter at The Gospel Coalition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2024/03/01/the_surging_growth_of_k-12_classical_education_1015509.html" style="color: #96607d;">The Surging Growth of K-12 Classical Education</a> – Keri Ingraham at Real Clear Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/03/beauty-nature-quest-meaning-sigrid-undset-wild-orchid-mark-d-bjelland.html" style="color: #96607d;">Beauty, Nature, & the Quest for Meaning in Sigrid Unset’s “The Wild Orchid”</a> – Mark Bjelland at The Imaginative Conservative. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-67618576655552758532024-03-09T05:00:00.003-06:002024-03-09T05:00:00.148-06:00Saturday Good Reads - March 9, 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPc7EugvtZutMWAAKUZCKh7GOzxR2s6Y5tz944SjMK7p6agKDWLTuu6_DGc6BZ4PEEP7WoC5PWx4r5RYQx9l8JLf1HbbEB6E6RjwOY0zerbbc1lB2_SoxUgwmm1VjfIJifEfs-ZIiAbgvwy4ig9QoHrPKl1dfr91WaWyooRUKcWel2MtDZfc76FxhthjI/s1000/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="795" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPc7EugvtZutMWAAKUZCKh7GOzxR2s6Y5tz944SjMK7p6agKDWLTuu6_DGc6BZ4PEEP7WoC5PWx4r5RYQx9l8JLf1HbbEB6E6RjwOY0zerbbc1lB2_SoxUgwmm1VjfIJifEfs-ZIiAbgvwy4ig9QoHrPKl1dfr91WaWyooRUKcWel2MtDZfc76FxhthjI/w508-h640/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">For years, my wife and I have dutifully recycled. Our suburb has had an active recycling program for a long time. At one time, you brought your materials to the center. Now, it’s curbside pickup. Some months back, we read that nearly 90 percent of all plastics that are theoretically recycled actually aren’t, simply because there’s no competitive market. And most of those recycled plastic bottles, detergent jugs, and other #1, #2, and #5 materials end up being shipped to places like Nigeria, where they are promptly dumped into rivers flowing to the ocean. The Center for Climate Integrity recently published a report, “<a href="https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/Fraud-of-Plastic-Recycling-2024.pdf" style="color: #954f72;">The Fraud of Plastic Recycling</a>.” </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been thinking about producing a new bingo card, with a space for every time this year I hear “threat to democracy,” “end of democracy,” and similar sentiments. These sentiments are usually expressed by people willing to do anything to discredit a certain political candidate. And if it means destroying democracy in the process, so be it, reminding me of that army major in Vietnam who said, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Mark Tapscott at <i>The Epoch Times</i> describes a different direction for the threat to democracy, describing how <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-the-government-used-track-f-to-fund-censorship-tools-report-5594817" style="color: #954f72;">the government used “Track F” to fund censorship tools</a>. Matt Taibbi at Racket News describes an award he’s getting, and why it’s so worrisome as <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/america-enters-the-samizdat-era" style="color: #954f72;">America enters the “Samizdat Era.”</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Good Reads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life and Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2024/campus-confidential/" style="color: #954f72;">Campus confidential: Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views</a> – Charlie Bentley-Astor at The Critic Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/03/liberals-christian-nationalism-john-horvat.html" style="color: #954f72;">Liberals and the Libel of “Christian Nationalism</a>” – John Horvat at The Imaginative Conservative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/07/ten-years-without-gabriel-garcia-marquez-an-oral-history/" style="color: #954f72;">Ten Years without Gabriel Garcia Marquez: An Oral History</a> – Silvana Paternostro at <i>The Paris Review</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-lord-of-the-rings" style="color: #954f72;">The Lord of the Rings<span style="font-style: normal;">: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic</span></a></i> – Austin Freeman at Desiring God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">American Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://emergingrevolutionarywar.org/2024/03/05/the-soldier-by-the-road/" style="color: #954f72;">The Soldier by the Road</a> – Bert Dunkerly at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2024/03/06/nathan-bedford-forrest-redeemed-part-i/" style="color: #954f72;">Nathan Bedford Forrest Redeemed? Part 1</a> and <a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2024/03/06/nathan-bedford-forrest-redeemed-part-ii/" style="color: #954f72;">Part 2</a> – Evan Portman at Emerging Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://crimereads.com/the-women-codebreakers-who-uncovered-some-of-the-cold-wars-most-notorious-spies/" style="color: #954f72;">The Women Codebreakers Who Uncovered Some of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spies</a> – Katherine Reay at CrimeReads. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/03/holly-ordway-on-tolkiens-faith/" style="color: #954f72;">Holly Ordway on Tolkien’s Faith</a> – Alan Cornett at Front Porch Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://bredenhof.ca/2024/03/05/decisive-moments-the-fall-of-jerusalem/" style="color: #954f72;">Decisive Moments: The Fall of Jerusalem</a> – Wes Bredenhof.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/the-epic-battle-that-saved-kyiv-from" style="color: #954f72;">The epic battle that saved Kyiv from Russian occupation</a> – Tim Mak at The Counteroffensive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/04/anniversary-show-revisits-the-birth-of-impressionism" style="color: #954f72;">New dawn: The birth of Impressionism revisited 150 years later in Paris exhibition</a> – Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper. See <a href="https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/paris-1874-inventing-impressionism" style="color: #954f72;">exhibition page</a> at Musee d’Orsay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/place-6/" style="color: #954f72;">Place</a> – Sonja Benskin Mesher. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/03/05/to-catch-the-wind-a-poem-by-lucia-haase/" style="color: #954f72;">To Catch the Wind</a> – Lucia Haase at Society of Classical Poets. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://codyilardo.substack.com/p/the-seafarer" style="color: #954f72;">The Seafarer: Man’s Despairing Mind, Wyrd Waters, & Gold in Death</a> – Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://rabbitroompoetry.substack.com/p/tea-cakes-with-jesuskate-gaston" style="color: #954f72;">Tea Cakes with Jesus</a> – Kate Gaton at Rabbit Room Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Archaeology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a46994595/archeologist-site-beaumont-abbey/" style="color: #954f72;">An Astounding Excavation Uncovered a Medieval Village Under an Ancient Abbey</a> – Darren Orf at <i>Popular Mechanics</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">News Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.racket.news/p/the-silly-furor-over-allegedly" style="color: #954f72;">“The Silly Furor Over “Allegedly”</a> – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/05/linkedin-news-publisher-strategy" style="color: #954f72;">LinkedIn doubles down on news as social rivals retreat</a> – Sara Fischer at Axios.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lexington – Casey McPherson of Alpha Rev</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ftXoJkL8msw" width="320" youtube-src-id="ftXoJkL8msw"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Painting: St. Luke, oil on canvas (1625) by </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hals" style="color: #954f72;"><i>Frans Hals</i></a><i> (ca. 1582-1666); Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art.</i></span><p></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-73352225148976797342024-03-08T05:00:00.003-06:002024-03-08T05:00:00.139-06:00Because he suffered<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMsmIquwYcHmIPcn-ayMU-E-g31aTmTfQHa8qPWaAiIG3bv7S_O5RG3LDMEa5rxaIWQS5ecrv7d8dheEIh1JAJGnuSU73AaLjxkdYrURd-mwL3qM_kN1ZqHCNDaBJyqtjjMirdgVlJHsP-Mo8G56OUpkTtauDfD9impA76uF7xKKODWPmUCHlYqHN7/s4112/Because%20he%20suffered.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="4112" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMsmIquwYcHmIPcn-ayMU-E-g31aTmTfQHa8qPWaAiIG3bv7S_O5RG3LDMEa5rxaIWQS5ecrv7d8dheEIh1JAJGnuSU73AaLjxkdYrURd-mwL3qM_kN1ZqHCNDaBJyqtjjMirdgVlJHsP-Mo8G56OUpkTtauDfD9impA76uF7xKKODWPmUCHlYqHN7/w400-h300/Because%20he%20suffered.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 2:5-18</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because he suffered,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he was crowned king,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the founder of earth, king,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the one who sanctifies, king,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the one given to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And so, when we suffer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we see the king who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">suffered as well,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">who suffered for us,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">who suffered so <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we could live.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What we suffer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he has suffered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He suffered first and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">died so we could live.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He knows who we are;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he knows what we suffer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">because he suffered first.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Frantisek Duris via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/sQ4aJOphZb4" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Friday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://covenant.livingchurch.org/2024/02/28/an-elegy-towards-hope/" style="color: #96607d;">An Elegy Towards Hope</a> – Mark Clavier at Covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.challies.com/articles/24-years-of-being-a-dad/" style="color: #96607d;">24 Years of Being a Dad</a> – Tim Challies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://livingintheshadow.ovcf.org/2024/03/06/march-6-5/" style="color: #96607d;">David and Goliath</a> – Bill Grandi at Living in the Shadow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/snakes-in-the-rock" style="color: #96607d;">Snakes in the Rock</a> – story by Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-65398017766013784852024-03-07T05:00:00.001-06:002024-03-07T05:00:00.144-06:00"Corpse Road" by David Gatward<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjoNeMADXcoKTIHyAtSNdW-7ptSzC1GFDU-5wmhSuA_tjIIb4X0aRBKK5G3CW2wNA-lsD5Z2nBF4uEv2Ha7gIm5g-OTgwQadRbktmgJOGBnyoyO1S1N4jC1NegiYTcYg3zmVzDd8gJcohwchrOTR4YQUWztYfE-hx-n-Gswbkb-Xb90mm78lJv8a_it0M/s1000/Corpse%20Road.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="648" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjoNeMADXcoKTIHyAtSNdW-7ptSzC1GFDU-5wmhSuA_tjIIb4X0aRBKK5G3CW2wNA-lsD5Z2nBF4uEv2Ha7gIm5g-OTgwQadRbktmgJOGBnyoyO1S1N4jC1NegiYTcYg3zmVzDd8gJcohwchrOTR4YQUWztYfE-hx-n-Gswbkb-Xb90mm78lJv8a_it0M/w414-h640/Corpse%20Road.jpg" width="414" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />DCI Harry Grimm thought it would only be a short “loaned assignment” to the police force in Yorkshire. His life and career were in Bristol. But it’s looking increasingly like a longer “loan” is what’s happening. And more disturbing is that he’s finding himself increasingly liking the place and the new assignment. Even with that nasty boss, who’s resented him from the get-go. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A new case comes along, and it’s a strange one. A woman in her mid-30s had gone camping on what the locals call Corpse Road, a popular camping area. It earned its name from a long-ago practice of the dead being transferred for burial. She’s been murdered, with the name “Stacy” carved into her forehead. And there’s not a speck of evidence anywhere to be found as to who the murderer might be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7P48h6bnrypHxh5eQ_NhZpQlczlgmt3X5Rpa1RaIKRCMcT37V2Qeazvx3zViGCqG0VoMvUGaQTCgTW6Cp-roNl6AatWEfd1bawiB8ZZCnZx-cbZHIbRp4qNCz21kOIrdroLGxL3BcNKcJRBEjL3x9WshxTy1vOau2mxp1Ca1hedMo6uUTNLH9JX2iqAw/s400/David%20Gatward.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7P48h6bnrypHxh5eQ_NhZpQlczlgmt3X5Rpa1RaIKRCMcT37V2Qeazvx3zViGCqG0VoMvUGaQTCgTW6Cp-roNl6AatWEfd1bawiB8ZZCnZx-cbZHIbRp4qNCz21kOIrdroLGxL3BcNKcJRBEjL3x9WshxTy1vOau2mxp1Ca1hedMo6uUTNLH9JX2iqAw/w200-h200/David%20Gatward.webp" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Gatward</td></tr></tbody></table><br />It might be the husband; the couple were in the process of divorce. And the husband is borderline obnoxious and very easy to dislike. But then he disappears.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Road-Harry-Grimm-Novel-ebook/dp/B08NWDJXFD/ref=sr_1_1" style="color: #96607d;">Corpse Road</a></i> is the third of the DCI Harry Grimm series by British author David Gatward. And it’s an unusual crime story in that the reader knows more of what’s happening than the police investigation team – but not the identity of the killer. It’s a tricky thing to pull off, but Gatward does, and he does it well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">In addition to the DCI Harry Grimm series, Gatward has published children’s and teen fiction, taught creative writing sessions, worked as an editor, started a small publishing firm, and returned to writing when the COVID pandemic arrived. He grew up in the Cotswolds and Yorkshire in England (including the town for the setting of Grimm Up North), and he’s also lived in Lincolnshire and the Lake District.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Related:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/10/grimm-up-north-by-david-gatward.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Grimm Up North</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by David Gatward</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2024/02/best-served-cold-by-david-gatward.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i>Best Served Cold</i> by David Gatward</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Thursday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-march-3/" style="color: #96607d;">Murders for March</a> – Jeremy Black at The Critic Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://crimereads.com/edgar-allan-poe-real-life-crime-solver/" style="color: #96607d;">Edgar Allen Poe’s Bid to Become a Real-Life Crime Solver</a> – Alex Hortis at CrimeReads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/05/most-countries-have-made-little-progress-in-returning-nazi-looted-art" style="color: #96607d;">Most countries have made little to no progress in returning Nazi-looted art, study finds</a> – Carlie Porterfield at The Art Newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2024/03/06/poet-laura-tea-journey/" style="color: #96607d;">Poet Laura: Tea Journey</a> – Michelle Rinaldi Ortega at Tweetspeak Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.wingedelmfarm.com/blog/2024/03/06/porch-sittin/" style="color: #96607d;">Porch Sittin’</a> – Brian Miller at A South Roane Agrarian. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-64269336864854752362024-03-06T05:00:00.002-06:002024-03-06T05:00:00.142-06:00"Why I Write" by George Orwell<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5gCYCz8SwhItYvU_v1Vq07JDZgrKq55cLNavKji95N7XxghedtWawvIc7feGIicQ92Zy9S_2HGZdDHvzm88AQeGwumrYMmrPHNUjhltyP3xb42zxqwBrU8nl44NutYDI6VfQarCNZ6Ca52OUe5npps4zjZXBN8ibx4nZlNNv0xIjUYihVAlZBPWGFRM/s475/Why%20I%20Write.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="286" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5gCYCz8SwhItYvU_v1Vq07JDZgrKq55cLNavKji95N7XxghedtWawvIc7feGIicQ92Zy9S_2HGZdDHvzm88AQeGwumrYMmrPHNUjhltyP3xb42zxqwBrU8nl44NutYDI6VfQarCNZ6Ca52OUe5npps4zjZXBN8ibx4nZlNNv0xIjUYihVAlZBPWGFRM/w241-h400/Why%20I%20Write.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Why-Write-Penguin/dp/014101900X/ref=sr_1_2" style="color: #96607d;">Why I Write</a></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">is a small volume of four essays by George Orwell (1903-1950), the author of</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">1984</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Animal Farm</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and many other works. The essays include the title one, “Why I Write;” “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” “A Hanging;” and “Politics and the English Language.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Orwell’s writing, and his understanding of it, reflected his political beliefs. He had a five-year stint with the Burma Division of the Indian Imperial Police, but eft with a medical certificate because his health was ruined, he dabbled in writing and a somewhat itinerant life and married, but then joined the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. That experience shaped the rest of his life, his politics, and the books and essays he wrote. He became a democratic socialist, but he was opposed to totalitarianism in all its form, both right and left. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading, please see my post today at <a href="https://dancingpriest.com/2024/03/06/why-i-write-by-george-orwell/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dancing Priest</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Wednesday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2024/03/04/secession-on-the-ballot-this-week-almost/" style="color: #96607d;">Secession on the Ballot This Week…Almost</a> – Neil Chatelain at Emerging Civil War. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://cwba.blogspot.com/2024/03/review-world-will-never-see-like.html" style="color: #96607d;">Review: <i>The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913</i> by John Hopkins</a> – Civil War Books and Authors. (You can read <a href="https://dancingpriest.com/2024/01/17/the-gettysburg-reunion-of-1913-by-john-hopkins/" style="color: #96607d;">my review here</a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-the-changelings" style="color: #96607d;">‘The Changelings,’ poem by Rudyard Kipling</a> – Adam Roberts at Poems Ancient and Modern. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-38860930926718907402024-03-05T05:00:00.011-06:002024-03-05T05:00:00.162-06:00"New Orleans Poems in Creole and French" by Jules Choppin<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0quB7LA1Q5bb0lt4IOPnarK5nt7sMqaioH7r6raj7qnS63jEJesY_TcAO-84KsFsCMIlHlCjbbNaW3XPfLE-vXkn2AS4jKaC-JQxepOe4WtbJQ6SfLr0Y_Ob0Duy6IJg9PhcLmHLzVezaQ4dQc9xYmEGOGND_CUiiYI0Rhy64vBo09LwkTT9RTKmFdc/s1000/New%20Orleans%20Poems.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0quB7LA1Q5bb0lt4IOPnarK5nt7sMqaioH7r6raj7qnS63jEJesY_TcAO-84KsFsCMIlHlCjbbNaW3XPfLE-vXkn2AS4jKaC-JQxepOe4WtbJQ6SfLr0Y_Ob0Duy6IJg9PhcLmHLzVezaQ4dQc9xYmEGOGND_CUiiYI0Rhy64vBo09LwkTT9RTKmFdc/w266-h400/New%20Orleans%20Poems.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you are born and grow up in a state that has parishes instead of counties, whose legislature was required to write laws in both French and English as late as 1911, whose legal system is based on Napoleonic Code, and where Mardi Gras is an official state holiday, you gradually realize that you come from a very different place. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Louisiana is an unusual state. North Louisiana, where my father grew up, could pass for East Texas or Mississippi; it’s Bible Belt country. My mother’s family was a combination of German immigrants and Cajuns from south-central and southwest Louisiana. I grew up in New Orleans, where people’s accents could pass for Brooklynese. I had close relatives who spoke German, Cajun French, and English. My mother didn’t go grocery shopping; she “made groceries.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you’re a child, however, all of that seems normal. It’s your day-to-day experience. Only when you grow up and move away do you realize how strange it all sounds – and how difficult it can be to explain to people not from Louisiana. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">My childhood and family experiences came back in a rush when a friend handed me a copy of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Orleans-Jules-Choppin-1830-1914/dp/0988962772 " target="_blank">New Orleans Poems in Creole and French</a></i> by Jules Choppin (1830-1914). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading, please see my post today at <a href="https://wp.me/p2vgeH-dIx " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tweetspeak Poetry</a>.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Tuesday Readings</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-things-worth-remembering-pericles" style="color: #96607d;">The Men Who Were Worthy of Athens</a> – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2024/03/04/the-colony/" style="color: #96607d;">Poetry Prompt: Revels & Celebrations at Colony!</a> – L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://kingdompoets.blogspot.com/2024/03/laurie-klein.html" style="color: #96607d;">Which words are not</a> – poem by Laurie Klein at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/03/04/insomnia-my-sometime-muse-and-other-poems-by-norman-solowey/" style="color: #96607d;">‘Insomnia, My Sometime Muse’ and ‘Netherworld’</a> – poems by Norman Solowey at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-dover-beach" style="color: #96607d;">‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold</a> – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-91347920750637863252024-03-04T05:00:00.001-06:002024-03-04T05:00:00.250-06:00“In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the Appian Way”<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_lMBhz2qBs-tUUqaG9p4Qo6lDPXvdhSOnzDuGjEysEZcgTW6xOfqdvxKCMw2o_lXNUR4g1enxmhImOeqN5jnm0wCsEqWXbKqq49DpsBq6UmVGXFkK2qWGdXSF4l0qMbUB4mZo2BfT3eVTVjXxIvd9kOvpVzNCEikqut6rCCbFzCyPXuDL7L5wpeUrKk/s640/Appian%20Way%20wikipedia.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_lMBhz2qBs-tUUqaG9p4Qo6lDPXvdhSOnzDuGjEysEZcgTW6xOfqdvxKCMw2o_lXNUR4g1enxmhImOeqN5jnm0wCsEqWXbKqq49DpsBq6UmVGXFkK2qWGdXSF4l0qMbUB4mZo2BfT3eVTVjXxIvd9kOvpVzNCEikqut6rCCbFzCyPXuDL7L5wpeUrKk/w400-h266/Appian%20Way%20wikipedia.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Start with two verses – Acts 28:12-13. The apostle Paul, after the shipwreck and three-month stay on Malta, lands at Syracuse, and then sails to the seaport of Puteoli, about 150 miles south of Rome. His party stays with Christians in Puteoli for a week, “and in this way we came to Rome.” </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luke, the writer of Acts and by implication part of Paul’s group, goes on to explain what happened to Paul in Rome – up to a point. The account ends without knowing if Paul’s appeal to Caesar was heard and acted upon, if Paul was then executed or released, presumably undertaking another missionary journey (some say to Spain), before returning to Rome at some point in the future and then executed by beheading (Roman citizens weren’t crucified). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.fourthcentury.com/dr-glen-l-thompson/" style="color: #96607d;">Glen Thompson</a>, professor emeritus of New Testament and Historical Theology at Asia Lutheran Seminary in Hong Kong, and <a href="https://sevenchurches.org/about/" style="color: #96607d;">Mark Wilson</a>, founder and director of the Asia Minor Research Center in Turkey and a research fellow in biblical studies at the University of South Africa, were intrigued with that summary line, “and in this way we came to Rome.” It encapsulates about 150 miles, or about a week at a normal walking pace for Paul and his party. What would that have been like? What would they have seen? What can non-Biblical studies in history, geography, and social customs tell us about this journey?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhI6uT5-zklgco1Z6bK61NkMSgD98rWJmE65XpDWZa0akMMe9JSVwuv3lrcbc5XNqqHWiS-ZW8OUsig2t_qFrCTHqCKCIivthyphenhyphenghus5K-u2N1KiH1Q9NSQtU_ygvhlA_shLdzx2NmlWxZvmzBmvtoa6HCwBk275IzVd23UkEYwnpm5pELMb25_sWf39fQ/s1000/In%20This%20Way%20We%20Came%20to%20Rome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="706" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhI6uT5-zklgco1Z6bK61NkMSgD98rWJmE65XpDWZa0akMMe9JSVwuv3lrcbc5XNqqHWiS-ZW8OUsig2t_qFrCTHqCKCIivthyphenhyphenghus5K-u2N1KiH1Q9NSQtU_ygvhlA_shLdzx2NmlWxZvmzBmvtoa6HCwBk275IzVd23UkEYwnpm5pELMb25_sWf39fQ/s320/In%20This%20Way%20We%20Came%20to%20Rome.jpg" width="226" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The result is <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Way-We-Came-Rome/dp/1683597249/ref=sr_1_2" style="color: #96607d;">In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the Appian Way</a></i>. Using modern resources and historically contemporary sources (like the letters of Cicero), the co-authors reconstruct Paul’s 150-mile journey into something like a contemporary travelogue. It’s a fascinating story based on extensive research.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After an introduction, the book is divided into seven chapters, each explaining a day’s travel by foot along the Appian Way and the towns, buildings, monuments, roads, and geography that would be experienced. They then add a conclusion, speculating where, exactly, Paul might have stayed (or been required to stay) in Rome itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book is profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams, charts, and photographs. The surprise is not how little of that 2000-year-old journey is left, but how much. The Appian Way is still visible in many places, and many of the tombs, monuments, and even a few buildings still stand. And, of course, the mountains, hills, and inclines are still there, allowing the co-authors (and the readers) to easily imagine what it might have been like in roughly 60-62 A.D. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’ve read any of the works by British archaeologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_Ramsay" style="color: #96607d;">Sir William Ramsey</a>, then you will have an idea of what <i>In This Way We Came to Rome</i> offers. It’s an impressive feat of scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Top photograph: The Appian Way, where Paul and his companions would have walked. Photo courtesy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>.</i> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Monday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/01/ten-reasons-why-we-love-van-gogh-blog" style="color: #96607d;">Ten reasons why we love Van Gogh</a> – Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/charts/" style="color: #96607d;">Charts</a> – poem and artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/bookish-diversions-do-audiobooks-count" style="color: #96607d;">Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?</a> – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-marshall-mcluhan" style="color: #96607d;">On Marshall McLuhan</a> – Benjamin Carlson at The Free Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://roddreher.substack.com/p/rembrandt-and-the-prodigal-son" style="color: #96607d;">Rembrandt & the Prodigal Son</a> – Rod Dreher.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-52330949163822365872024-03-03T05:00:00.002-06:002024-03-03T06:02:38.894-06:00The one who suffered<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnuCvnv2cBSh19e2BwW2G3_1HPeLbHIzRzDCUV5TxB1N5bFTduN0YNo4LScL_B-Zh2Xjyqb6jcq7J6q3ILvo0i1BwcE-a2GGhAyW8Y_c6xnjliyqAudpF5sVCj_pRmtE1BFpdZ8EopTEJlpnRNQLEAItXQszNV9EqMno-kiKRCIp96n7GobOqNiKA/s6000/The%20one%20who%20suffered.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnuCvnv2cBSh19e2BwW2G3_1HPeLbHIzRzDCUV5TxB1N5bFTduN0YNo4LScL_B-Zh2Xjyqb6jcq7J6q3ILvo0i1BwcE-a2GGhAyW8Y_c6xnjliyqAudpF5sVCj_pRmtE1BFpdZ8EopTEJlpnRNQLEAItXQszNV9EqMno-kiKRCIp96n7GobOqNiKA/w426-h640/The%20one%20who%20suffered.jpg" width="426" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 2:5-18</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the midst of trials,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s easy to forget<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the one who suffered<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and died, the one who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">gave you his name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He was made first,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he made all things first,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and he was reduced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to something lower<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">than angels for a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now he is in control,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">now all are subject to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Though we don’t see all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we do see one thing:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the one thing that is him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Wesley Tingey via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/y2-FG8oiSiQ" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Sunday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/what-is-a-mother" style="color: #96607d;">What is a Mother? Ireland’s Progressive Integralism</a> – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://entrustedtothedirt.com/2024/02/28/burying-the-talents-of-the-great-rewarder/" style="color: #96607d;">Burying the Talents of the Great Rewarder</a> – A.W. Workman at Entrusted to the Dirt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-sermons-of-the-golden-mouth" style="color: #96607d;">The Sermons of the Golden Mouth: Preaching Lessons of John Chrysostom</a> – Dan Miller at Desiring God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-reasons-the-old-testament-matters-to-christians/" style="color: #96607d;">10 Reasons the Old Testament Matters to Christians</a> – Jason DeRouchie at Crossway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://rabbitroompoetry.substack.com/p/what-about-this-mansarah-crowley" style="color: #96607d;">“What about this man?”</a> – poem by Sarah Crowley Chestnut at Rabbit Room Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/03/opting-benedict-ordinary-parish-dwight-longenecker.html" style="color: #96607d;">Opting for Benedict in an Ordinary Parish</a> – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-55727882863633750482024-03-02T05:00:00.002-06:002024-03-02T07:21:42.707-06:00Saturday Good Reads - March 2, 2024<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihn0gxmkpS77MRMh5arqzZXa9eWTtMRGuMHh-QzoRJIuDCwfLotkErS9eygJ9zWNE691qI84an8esY17vJkYrZeIdFzIt3ppDKBNnTm6fO4WC_QQuJRQ78-3SHsLTxfquXz2oWtAvnCiezeJ0E-wYXPI30Y8G09AOw6Y4jurYGJo5BD-xy1eW0CXKmFBI/s1248/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="1020" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihn0gxmkpS77MRMh5arqzZXa9eWTtMRGuMHh-QzoRJIuDCwfLotkErS9eygJ9zWNE691qI84an8esY17vJkYrZeIdFzIt3ppDKBNnTm6fO4WC_QQuJRQ78-3SHsLTxfquXz2oWtAvnCiezeJ0E-wYXPI30Y8G09AOw6Y4jurYGJo5BD-xy1eW0CXKmFBI/w524-h640/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" width="524" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Google has had better weeks. Gemini, its AI program, had a few “technical glitches.” Like how it <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/if-ai-thinks-george-washington-is" style="color: #954f72;">depicted historical figures</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1761800684272308302" style="color: #954f72;">equated Elon Musk and Hitler</a>, and said a journalist wrote a story <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/i-wrote-what-googles-ai-powered-libel" style="color: #954f72;">he actually didn’t write</a>, to mention only a few examples. Ian Leslie at The Ruffian points out all of this reminds us <a href="https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-google-gemini-debacle-shows-us" style="color: #954f72;">that office politics still matter</a>. For its part, <a href="https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/" style="color: #954f72;">Google apologized</a>, but the problems went far beyond “technical glitches” and reflected a deeply entrenched political bias at the company with the most used search engine on the planet. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bari Weiss, former journalists with <i>The New York Times</i> and now editor of <i>The Free Press</i>, gave the “State of World Jewry” lecture at the 92<sup>nd</sup> Street Y in New York City. Entitled “<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-what-it-means-to-choose" style="color: #954f72;">What It Means to Choose Freedom</a>,” the lecture takes a hard look at anti-Semitism, Jews in America, and the broader meaning of freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And speaking of <i>The New York Times</i>, Benny Morris at Quillette explains how the newspaper <a href="https://quillette.com/2024/02/27/the-nyt-misrepresents-the-history-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/" style="color: #954f72;">misrepresents the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict</a>, while Jenny Holland at Spiked! describes what happened when journalism met what sounds a lot like <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/28/a-woke-struggle-session-at-the-new-york-times/" style="color: #954f72;">a Maoist struggle session</a> in the Cultural Revolution. (Hint: journalism didn’t win.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Good Reads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/reading-100-year-old-books-alex-pinelli.html" style="color: #954f72;">Reading 100-Year-Old Books</a> – Alex Pinelli at The Imaginative Conservative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/classical-education-revitalizing-christian-culture-stephen-turley.html" style="color: #954f72;">Is Classical Education Revitalizing Christian Culture?</a> – Stephen Turley at The Imaginative Conservative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/when_a_baby_is_a_disease" style="color: #954f72;">When a Baby is a Disease</a> – Matthew Hosier at Think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/the-death-of-charity/" style="color: #954f72;">The death of charity?</a> – Stephen Wigmore at The Critic Magazine on the decline of Christianity on Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">News Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/the-age-of-the-news-influencer/" style="color: #954f72;">The age of the news influencer</a> – Fred Skulthorp at The Critic Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life and Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/how-bad-therapy-hijacked-american-schools" style="color: #954f72;">How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools</a> – Abigail Shrier at The Free Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2024/02/28/slavery-americas-original-sin/" style="color: #954f72;">Slavery: America’s “Original Sin”?</a> – Dwight Hughes at Emerging Civil War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/02/in-defense-of-livestock/" style="color: #954f72;">In Defense of Livestock</a> – John Klar at Front Porch Republic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/02/28/marijuana-use-linked-to-higher-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke" style="color: #954f72;">Marijuana use linked to higher risk of heart attacks and stroke</a> – American Heart Association News.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/02/abandoned-altars/" style="color: #954f72;">Abandoned Altars</a> – Ryan Davis at Front Porch Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-rebecca-who-slammed-doors" style="color: #954f72;">Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fund and Perished Miserably</a> – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern on the poem by Hilaire Belloc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://themillions.com/2024/02/the-path-is-no-path-on-not-becoming-a-poet.html" style="color: #954f72;">The Path is No Path: On Not Becoming a Poet</a> – Brian VanDyke at The Millions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/02/29/the-marble-angel-and-other-poetry-by-martin-rizley/" style="color: #954f72;">‘The Marble Angel’ and ‘The Cow by the River’</a> – Martin Rizley at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://davidwhyte.substack.com/p/ancestral" style="color: #954f72;">Ancestral</a> – David Whyte. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-western-canon-may-yet-endure" style="color: #954f72;">“Livelier Than You Are, Whoever You Are”: The School of Resentment is ascendant but ephemeral; the Western Canon may yet endure</a> – Corbin Berthold at City Journal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Summer of ’42 – Michel Legrand</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GVx0m_3Lcw0" width="320" youtube-src-id="GVx0m_3Lcw0"></iframe></div><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Painting: Reading Sibyl, oil on canvas by </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Cantarini" style="color: #954f72;"><i>Simone Cantarini</i></a><i> (1612-1648)</i>. </span><p></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-34937075794186623592024-03-01T05:00:00.004-06:002024-03-01T05:00:00.133-06:00Pay attention<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YcAUuMLHXFU4K0TWPJ5jZJnY18AQMNKeBbtGOlfpxITWbIEAAXKRD5xMyWlHRQFEqzYStnNUWDhdLqGYAU8fniqUGHW2tSSahuk1ifYmhLhz1lLN945AXCBibmHtJRK_L4qhnNnxBm5SB6tFH9Uruvqy0hsNXLsH02Iz-rpcdbuxjUZI3IcsYfSF/s4032/Pay%20attention.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="4032" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YcAUuMLHXFU4K0TWPJ5jZJnY18AQMNKeBbtGOlfpxITWbIEAAXKRD5xMyWlHRQFEqzYStnNUWDhdLqGYAU8fniqUGHW2tSSahuk1ifYmhLhz1lLN945AXCBibmHtJRK_L4qhnNnxBm5SB6tFH9Uruvqy0hsNXLsH02Iz-rpcdbuxjUZI3IcsYfSF/w400-h266/Pay%20attention.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 1:5-2:4</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pay attention;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">heed what they<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">say. The word<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is reliable, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">who are we<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to ignore it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(and we ignore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it at our peril).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The word offers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">us salvation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a great salvation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">declared, attested,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">witnessed with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">signs and wonders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and miracles and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">gifts. So pay<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Nick Fewings via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/zF_pTLx_Dkg" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Friday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://tristansherwin.com/2024/02/18/grave-to-cradle-the-birth-of-it-all-ex-11-210/" style="color: #96607d;">Grave to Cradle: The Birth of It All (Ex. 1:1 – 2:10)</a> – Tristan Sherwin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://kingdompoets.blogspot.com/2024/02/tadhg-gaelach-o-suilleabhain.html" style="color: #96607d;">From “Poem of Jesus”</a> – <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-sermons-of-the-golden-mouth" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="background: white;">God Doesn’t Owe Me Kindness</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> – Andy Stearns at Thoughts Worth Thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/a-sonnet-for-george-herbert-8/" style="color: #96607d;"><span style="background: white;">A Sonnet for George Herbert</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> – Malcolm Guite.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2024/02/29/memoir-notebook-a-tune-beyond-the-river/" style="color: #96607d;">Memoir Notebook: A Tune Beyond on the River</a> – Jeffrey Streeter at Tweetspeak Poetry.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-49026677699047616472024-02-29T05:00:00.003-06:002024-02-29T05:00:00.241-06:00"Murder at Midnight" by Faith Martin<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDXzcSQZbKn7hCQuz05ZuNgQRQF_PiJqi-n8QS7GtVZYHIIcX-MjgBRL0J4sJmUOvgysgjGYTeQfNbPJDf_6Iqy7TIKY6nLHLo7s7LCx2tcmryV8XLy2MxehtM3vnCx2ELD3FzqsDOT8zJ3-xeD9vxaQxPm-oaf1nTZpLM5sNK8i4Lxi-kfFmQ9JT6j4/s500/Murder%20at%20Midnight.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDXzcSQZbKn7hCQuz05ZuNgQRQF_PiJqi-n8QS7GtVZYHIIcX-MjgBRL0J4sJmUOvgysgjGYTeQfNbPJDf_6Iqy7TIKY6nLHLo7s7LCx2tcmryV8XLy2MxehtM3vnCx2ELD3FzqsDOT8zJ3-xeD9vxaQxPm-oaf1nTZpLM5sNK8i4Lxi-kfFmQ9JT6j4/w400-h640/Murder%20at%20Midnight.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Former DI Hillary Greene, now a civilian working with the Thames Valley Police on cold cases, is back from two weeks of vacation. She needed it, after that close call with the stalker in the previous three mysteries. She spent one week with her boss, who’s becoming something more than a love interest, and the second week on her own in Spain. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now she’s back in the office, with two new team members. One is a sociology student who dresses in Goth style, and the other is Boy Wonder – an entrepreneur who drives a Jaguar and has more money that the police force put together. His reason for joining the force is “to give something back to society.” Well, yes, but Hillary isn’t buying it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new cold concerns the murder of an interior designer at an end-of-the-millennium party in 1999. Everyone liked him. He had no enemies, or skeletons in his closet. He did great work for his clients. No one gained financial benefits from his death. Everybody misses him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8wLIHMcwGIjL2e0Fr6dYY-ThDBMPNKC4dcbFh2eUXEpiq5uoE20vleaAHHbgQobXzfjp5MhTTx1UScC0pT2my5w1p5kl0sTRzjb5FYATHpVkT93UhNrG3zYxAvD4KWsf3KOGd8ClF5rHVQ8fWqS2zhyphenhyphens14kpEcU2bD-xhzHu_PQQNWIg-lsw-7CBLj4/s1500/Faith%20Martin.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1262" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8wLIHMcwGIjL2e0Fr6dYY-ThDBMPNKC4dcbFh2eUXEpiq5uoE20vleaAHHbgQobXzfjp5MhTTx1UScC0pT2my5w1p5kl0sTRzjb5FYATHpVkT93UhNrG3zYxAvD4KWsf3KOGd8ClF5rHVQ8fWqS2zhyphenhyphens14kpEcU2bD-xhzHu_PQQNWIg-lsw-7CBLj4/s320/Faith%20Martin.png" width="269" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Faith Martin</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />It’s a tough case for Hillary and her team to crack. And she has to keep a close eye on Boy wonder and what he might be up to, like why he hacked into her office computer after hours (and he doesn’t know he got caught). <o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/MURDER-MIDNIGHT-gripping-mystery-twists-ebook/dp/B07GTXTJZN/ref=sr_1_1" style="color: #96607d;">Murder at Midnight</a></i> is the 15<sup>th</sup> DI Hillary Greene mystery, and it’s a corker. You keep thinking author Faith Martin had to come up with a mediocre one at some point, but so far, across 15 books, she hasn’t missed a beat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #222222;">In addition to the DI Hillary Greene novels, Martin (a pen name for Jacquie Walton) has also published the Ryder and Loveday novels as well as the Jenny Sterling mysteries. Under the name Joyce Cato, she has published several non-series detective stories. Both Cato and Martin are also pen names for Walton. (Walton has another pen name as well – Maxine Barry, under which she wrote 14 romance novels.) A native of Oxford, she lives in a village in Oxfordshire.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Related</span></b><span style="color: #222222;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/08/murder-on-oxford-canal-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder on the Oxford Canal</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/08/murder-at-university-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder at the University</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/09/murder-of-bride-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder of the Bride</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/10/murder-in-village-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder in the Village</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/11/murder-in-family-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder in the Family</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2022/12/murder-at-home-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder at Home</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/02/murder-in-meadow-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder in the Meadow</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/03/murder-in-mansion-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder in the Mansion</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/05/murder-by-fire-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder by Fire</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/06/murder-at-work-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder at Work</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/08/murder-never-retires-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder Never Retires</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/09/murder-of-lover-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i><span style="color: #954f72;">Murder of a Lover</span></i><span style="color: #954f72;"> by Faith Martin</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: repeat white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2023/11/murder-never-misses-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i>Murder Never Misses</i> by Faith Martin</a><span style="color: #222222;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2024/01/murder-by-candlelight-by-faith-martin.html" style="color: #96607d;"><i>Murder by Candlelight</i> by Faith Martin</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Thursday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/mark-twains-obsession-with-joan-of-arc/" style="color: #96607d;">Mark Twain’s Obsession with Joan of Arc</a> – Emily Zarevick at JSTOR Daily. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/march-2024/its-not-rocket-science/" style="color: #96607d;">It’s not rocket science: On universities and ideology</a> – Michael Lind at The Critic Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2024/02/28/year-of-the-monarch-begin-again/" style="color: #96607d;">Year of the Monarch: Begin Again</a> – Dheepa Maturi at Tweetspeak Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sethlewis.ie/2024/02/28/how-im-voting-in-the-constitutional-referendum-and-why/" style="color: #96607d;">How I’m Voting in the (Irish) Constitutional Referendum (And Why)</a> – Seth Lewis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://tspoetrypress.substack.com/p/how-and-author-can-do-more-with-less" style="color: #96607d;">How An Author Can Do More with Le</a>ss – TS Poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-21580035814340602892024-02-28T05:00:00.006-06:002024-02-28T05:00:00.134-06:00Writing a Bibliography - for a Novel<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0zJ6O69Lrq79rzlEt9J9xbm58YNUtyhc8_Oia_6bKSh31TfnwB3ZhLu40TgyQLbvORJn_81eJifwZsNZSkLB4ZG04g953BbwapkOadRCfmVPw5NcuylQT8PtFJ0kRS2HolMJy8jrYEBGH09UIfVw4VPu0PDE6LsSXGqGtZVO2OhWlTVxk1MhqQ19ebSY/s5713/thomas-kelley-hHL08lF7Ikc-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3809" data-original-width="5713" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0zJ6O69Lrq79rzlEt9J9xbm58YNUtyhc8_Oia_6bKSh31TfnwB3ZhLu40TgyQLbvORJn_81eJifwZsNZSkLB4ZG04g953BbwapkOadRCfmVPw5NcuylQT8PtFJ0kRS2HolMJy8jrYEBGH09UIfVw4VPu0PDE6LsSXGqGtZVO2OhWlTVxk1MhqQ19ebSY/w400-h266/thomas-kelley-hHL08lF7Ikc-unsplash.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s been two weeks since I read a book about the Civil War, and it feels strange. My draft novel is done, at least for now. It’s not so much a novel about the Civil War as it is a novel of the Civil War.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you grew up in the South, or even if you didn’t, what happened in the years 1861-1865 affected you, even when you didn’t know it. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents were children of Civil War veterans. They experienced the war in very different ways, both in the fighting and in civilian life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My mother’s grandparents were Franco-German immigrants who settled in New Orleans and descendants of the Acadians expelled from Canada after the French and Indian War who settled in what we called “the river parishes” – the stretch of territory along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The men generally fought for the Confederacy; after 1862, the women, children, and elderly men discovered life under Union occupation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading, please see my post today at <a href="https://dancingpriest.com/2024/02/28/writing-a-bibliography-for-a-novel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dancing Pries</a>t.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Photograph by Thomas Kelley via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/books-filed-on-bookshelf-hHL08lF7Ikc" style="color: #96607d;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Wednesday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://civileats.com/2024/02/21/what-latest-farm-census-says-about-changing-ag-landscape/" style="color: #96607d;">What the Latest Farm Census Says About the Changing Ag Landscape</a> – Lisa Held at Civil Eats.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/way-tavern-el-camino-de-santiago-pilgrimage-raphael-arteaga.html" style="color: #96607d;">On the Way to the Tavern: el Camino de Santiago</a> – Br. Raphael Arteaga at The Imaginative Conservative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thereconstructionera.com/yale-civil-war-memorial/" style="color: #96607d;">Yale Civil War Memorial</a> – Patrick Young at The Reconstruction Era.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-73680351451177389292024-02-27T05:00:00.006-06:002024-02-27T05:00:00.135-06:00Poets and Poems: Jeanine Hathaway and "Long After Lauds"<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNNxmDPl_eXYvNVLGdtFNJD_GYoyPTfTCMSSQ4fhv9xvr1r0-AoEqX0Nv5D4GjQWnba_2pIyeSA2h3aYFu3SHg2zsRILxZUNdYyLKoJPoMAFso7044XIgwmwTLd12MCkfqbQG-Lq1mPH1_dkYMKWzDC61PWpYPkzyXrRpzH4qedM0pVmgXwbraFhxHZM/s1000/Long%20After%20Lauds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNNxmDPl_eXYvNVLGdtFNJD_GYoyPTfTCMSSQ4fhv9xvr1r0-AoEqX0Nv5D4GjQWnba_2pIyeSA2h3aYFu3SHg2zsRILxZUNdYyLKoJPoMAFso7044XIgwmwTLd12MCkfqbQG-Lq1mPH1_dkYMKWzDC61PWpYPkzyXrRpzH4qedM0pVmgXwbraFhxHZM/w266-h400/Long%20After%20Lauds.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry speaks to us differently than both non-fiction and fiction prose. It’s older, of course, than the printed word, recited and repeated long before language was codified into letters, spellings, and definitions. Even in its written or printed form, poetry stands apart, like the older, sole child of a previous marriage. And it’s the literary form that most readily changes when it’s read silently and read aloud. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">These differences between poetry and prose came quickly to mind when I read <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-after-Lauds-Jeanine-Hathaway/dp/1639820213/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Long After Lauds: Poems</a></i> by <a href="https://slantbooks.org/authors/jeanine-hathaway/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeanine Hathaway</a>, published in 2020. And I will be an honest consumer. It wasn’t the poet’s reputation or reading one of her poems in a journal or online, or the title that attracted me to the collection. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">To continue reading, please see my post today at <a href="https://wp.me/p2vgeH-dHM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tweetspeak Poetry</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Tuesday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/02/24/old-clem-song-from-dickens-great-expectations-set-to-music-by-jeff-eardley/" style="color: #96607d;">‘Old Clem’: Song from Dickens’ <i>Great Expectations</i> Set to Music</a> – Jeff Eardley at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://hudsonreview.com/2024/02/clearing-brush/" style="color: #96607d;">Clearing Brush</a> – poem by Robert Cording at <i>The Hudson Review</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://classicalpoets.org/2024/02/25/the-ten-best-poems-to-analyze/" style="color: #96607d;">The Ten Best Poems to Analyze</a> – Adam Sedia at Society of Classical Poets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2024/02/26/woodstock-dream/" style="color: #96607d;">Poetry Prompt – Journeys: Woodstock Dream</a> – L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-the-second-coming" style="color: #96607d;">“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats</a> – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-4851563465073424912024-02-26T05:00:00.001-06:002024-02-26T05:00:00.277-06:00Just Another Protest in London, Except When It’s Not<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4j3OzlsIUSRitdx6L20gjcmzORHVyAcK_knUozuxBaFO6V73Lk5V5JjI0Vv9s-p22L_zn8_AYnc2tHQsFXHbE99_b0yRg4g8CNNh-YzTp9dzS9TN6KdD0EFN78oarNxZb9LHuV2gyfTeb0Z_kgnQnWyK6v07I4Hn_YH2d4F424VYOSXGocjvn9AGEdI/s3000/ehimetalor-akhere-unuabona-KUEeSGa4wT0-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4j3OzlsIUSRitdx6L20gjcmzORHVyAcK_knUozuxBaFO6V73Lk5V5JjI0Vv9s-p22L_zn8_AYnc2tHQsFXHbE99_b0yRg4g8CNNh-YzTp9dzS9TN6KdD0EFN78oarNxZb9LHuV2gyfTeb0Z_kgnQnWyK6v07I4Hn_YH2d4F424VYOSXGocjvn9AGEdI/w426-h640/ehimetalor-akhere-unuabona-KUEeSGa4wT0-unsplash.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve been to London and England several times in the past 12 years. We have a hotel that feels like home (slightly more luxurious than our own). We like the theatre and the museums. We like exploring literary and royal history. I like early morning walks around St. James’s Park and Piccadilly. The Charles Dickens Museum. The Samuel Johnson House. Taking the train to Oxford, Salisbury, Canterbury. The Imperial War Museum. The National Gallery and the smaller art museums like the Courtauld. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You could spend six months there and not exhaust the things to do. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You also have to be prepared for the protests. I would say the “inevitable protests,” but that would be redundant. At times it seems everyone comes to London to protest, even if London has not to do with what the protest is about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Typically, it’s an animal rights protest. Each September, there’s <a href="https://www.bondstreet.co.uk/articles/london-fashion-week-the-spring-summer-2024-collections" style="color: #96607d;">London Fashion Week</a>, held in both February and September at the British Fashion Council’s show place on The Strand near Somerset House and the Courtauld’s Museum. I can’t count the times we’ve unintentionally walked into a protest at the September event. Everyone is usually polite to passersby, and we’ve never had a problem other than feeling some discomfort at walking through a yelling, chanting crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trafalgar Square is also a popular place for protests. It is a major traffic thoroughfare, with Whitehall, Charing Cross, and The Strand converging there. It’s a great place to tie up traffic and get attention. Yes, we’ve occasionally been caught on a stopped bus in unmoving traffic. We get out and walk. Climate protests have also become popular in both Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square a few blocks down Whitehall. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our own hotel has sometimes been involved in protests. It’s a popular place for Asian dignitaries, and once the Dalai Lama was there during our stay. He attracted protesters and supporters in equal numbers. While we were there last fall, the prime minister of Bangladesh arrived for government meetings. We heard the chanting and noise out on the street, even though our room was well in the rear of the property. Hotel security guards helped us navigate arriving and departing at the hotel. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqO2055mZNc29eCa5rxk440RN7t3ZvV_iNB5bjRLgIfPlgYkKKulZAleHuuYgIDw2T7I8l7en2fwnbohf0-nxWLAb6jjsaUXRxsvGo9-So_cysGVa-1tU0B4MXKPTPvYwFmxMeGBZh9dKDMh6ItXKywEepQMQMfIJghYNlTCs41ihjmtVZkM6RkL2SFo/s4000/protest%20in%20london.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2668" data-original-width="4000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqO2055mZNc29eCa5rxk440RN7t3ZvV_iNB5bjRLgIfPlgYkKKulZAleHuuYgIDw2T7I8l7en2fwnbohf0-nxWLAb6jjsaUXRxsvGo9-So_cysGVa-1tU0B4MXKPTPvYwFmxMeGBZh9dKDMh6ItXKywEepQMQMfIJghYNlTCs41ihjmtVZkM6RkL2SFo/s320/protest%20in%20london.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Protest outside Parliament</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until recently, the most worrisome time had been September 2012. We’d returned to London for vacation after a gap of almost 30 years. The Summer Olympics has just concluded, and the Paralympics were just getting underway; the marathon ran right in front of our hotel. And we attended the big celebratory parade with a couple of million other people, cheering and waving our little British flags. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One morning, I went downstairs to get a newspaper from the hotel concierge. He heard my American accent and suggested I might consider avoiding the US Embassy, Parliament Square, and protests in general for a time. “I understand they’re targeting Americans,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack" style="color: #96607d;">US Embassy in Libya has just been attacked</a>, and the ambassador and several others brutally murdered. The controversy was raging back home over what the government should have done; the Secretary of State and the President had apparently opted to do nothing, and people had died. And <i>it was an election year</i>. What prompted the protests against America (and Americans) in London was a statement by the President’s office that the Libyan embassy attack had been prompted by a movie about Mohammed being made in Hollywood. That statement ignited the protests in London, overshadowing what had happened at the embassy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We avoided the squares for a few days. We had no trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This past week, more protests happened in London about the war in Gaza. What’s been happening underscores what we noticed last fall – things were changing. London felt different than it had during our previous trip in 2017. And it’s not just us tourists. <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/are-islamists-in-charge-of-britain-kisin" style="color: #96607d;">The highest levels of the British government are now involved</a>, and at risk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Top photograph of Trafalgar Square by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/people-walking-on-street-during-daytime-KUEeSGa4wT0" style="color: #96607d;">Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona</a> and lower photograph by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/people-gathering-on-street-during-daytime-QQliME9oZsY" style="color: #96607d;">James Eades</a>, both via Unsplash. Used with permission</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Monday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/2024-invasion-southern-border/" style="color: #96607d;">2024 and the Invasion at the Southern Border</a> – Roger Kimball at The Spectator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://lawliberty.org/taking-the-high-road/" style="color: #96607d;">Taking the High Road: The liberal arts have a future</a> – Nadya Williams at Law & Liberty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024" style="color: #96607d;">The State of the Culture, 2024</a> – Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://civileats.com/2024/02/21/what-latest-farm-census-says-about-changing-ag-landscape/" style="color: #96607d;">Who is Reading Even for Anymore?</a> – Kat Rosenfeld at The Free Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://alondoninheritance.com/london-history/10-years-of-a-london-inheritance/" style="color: #96607d;">10 Years of A London Inheritance</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-83509163768946175572024-02-25T05:00:00.003-06:002024-02-25T05:00:00.263-06:00Only one son<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlAyTbfY6k7vMbvk4Lf2S2ZkNBq1z8QyWD-czOlrcUiLwuEurrpICfdLGJ9tYuyiMT-IGYPCSMchAc_4OUoklrD0H248rs5ouawMiKE8IVhnrFQnfWFJgeJ31LsXBpSmMNegfoixoAfciNkYMHAu7AbfOX4nbuMruLq1zOm6QfqhZ0_KE7Q7-Rc-vi/s4608/Only%20one%20son.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4608" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlAyTbfY6k7vMbvk4Lf2S2ZkNBq1z8QyWD-czOlrcUiLwuEurrpICfdLGJ9tYuyiMT-IGYPCSMchAc_4OUoklrD0H248rs5ouawMiKE8IVhnrFQnfWFJgeJ31LsXBpSmMNegfoixoAfciNkYMHAu7AbfOX4nbuMruLq1zOm6QfqhZ0_KE7Q7-Rc-vi/w400-h266/Only%20one%20son.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 1:5-2:4</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He never called<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">an angel a son;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he never told<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">an angel to call<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">him a father.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instead, he directed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">their attention,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">their worship,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the firstborn,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the firstborn who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">transforms angels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">into winds, who<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">makes his ministers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">into flames of fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He created the earth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the heavens;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">when they perish,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Ante Hamersmit via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/vMP8lfhxPi4" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some Sunday Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-spots-of-time" style="color: #96607d;">Spots of Time: Wordsworth, <i>The Prelude</i>, and the Power of Memory</a> – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/sir-martin-gilbert-inklings-bradley-birzer.html" style="color: #96607d;">Sir Martin Gilbert and the Inklings</a> – Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/beauty-gospel-awkward/" style="color: #96607d;">The Beauty of ‘Gospel Awkward’</a> – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-70843278084504129782024-02-24T05:00:00.001-06:002024-02-24T05:00:00.130-06:00Saturday Good Reads - Feb. 24, 2024<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4xtFyu1KGRaq4XFxYCCeS1Q-hwkUCIJwVFOZfuABffrDWPvmEfGD7Ve-J4popiNnXC9LRQd4FTVvjVZXw8zJ_RulohdvIcOMVgXJ3JbKLtSo5_P4W4g4uu9uYIq4wRlILaH2-iuButfpWOA5NgMQYQ67U78QTlfo85bG9dkZJnvWFM-aAWiqCM_9w7k/s906/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="735" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4xtFyu1KGRaq4XFxYCCeS1Q-hwkUCIJwVFOZfuABffrDWPvmEfGD7Ve-J4popiNnXC9LRQd4FTVvjVZXw8zJ_RulohdvIcOMVgXJ3JbKLtSo5_P4W4g4uu9uYIq4wRlILaH2-iuButfpWOA5NgMQYQ67U78QTlfo85bG9dkZJnvWFM-aAWiqCM_9w7k/w520-h640/Saturday%20Good%20Reads.jpeg" width="520" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The gentle author (that’s the pen name he uses) at Spitalfields Life used 1927 cigarette cards of Dickens’ London and <a href="https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/22/a-walk-through-dickens-i/" style="color: #954f72;">took a walk to see the buildings</a>, or remnants of buildings, that might still be there. And he took photographs, so you can juxtapose the drawings on the cards with the photos. As it turns out, one of them, the Water Gate at Essex Street, features an area in my novel <i>Dancing Prophet</i>. Another one, 48 Doughty Street, is the home of the Charles Dickens Museum. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stanford Medicine published a study that identified <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034374" style="color: #954f72;">distinct brain organization patterns in women and men</a>. While it’s something my wife could have told them without spending the research money, it’s still interesting that there is scientific evidence for it. I can’t even imagine the outrage this is going to evoke.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Michael Kruger, professor at and president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, notes one of the markers or characteristics of very early Christians. And it remains a marker of contemporary Christians. From earliest times, <a href="https://michaeljkruger.com/one-of-the-core-markers-of-early-christian-identity/" style="color: #954f72;">Christians were “people of the text.”</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">More Good Reads<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.thebeehive.live/blog/westminsterinhospitality" style="color: #954f72;">Westminster Abbey and the Danger of Inhospitality</a> – John Beeson at The Bee Hive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://stephenmcalpine.com/when-cultural-tailwinds-become-cultural-headwinds/" style="color: #954f72;">When Cultural Tailwinds Become Cultural Headwinds</a> – Stephen McAlpine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/cormac-mccarthy-sideline-freelance-copy-editor" style="color: #954f72;">Cormac McCarthy’s Sideline: Freelance Copy Editor</a> – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://prufrock.substack.com/p/fiction-and-time-1" style="color: #954f72;">Fiction and Time</a> – John Wilson at Prufrock. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://storywarren.com/any-day-now-an-adventure-story/" style="color: #954f72;">Any Day Now: An Adventure Story</a> – Henry Lewis at Story Warren. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life and Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://roddreher.substack.com/p/katherine-brodsky-is-not-sorry" style="color: #954f72;">Katherine Brodsky Is Not Sorry</a> – Rod Dreher at Rod Dreher’s Diary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/critical-thinking-daniel-lattier.html" style="color: #954f72;">Critical Thinking”: What Does It Really Mean?</a> – Daniel Lattier at The Imaginative Conservative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.crossway.org/articles/unpacking-separation-of-church-and-state/" style="color: #954f72;">Unpacking of “Separation of Church and State”</a> – Alan Strange at Crossway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://rabbitroompoetry.substack.com/p/lenten-sonnet-february-23-2018andrew" style="color: #954f72;">Lenten Sonnet</a> – Andrew Peterson at Rabbit Room Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-disobedience" style="color: #954f72;">“Disobedience”</a> by A.A. Milne – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://mereorthodoxy.com/getting-to-stop-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening" style="color: #954f72;">Getting to Stop by Woods on a Snowy Evening</a> – Simeon Swinger at Mere Orthodoxy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">American Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/02/roosevelts-grief/" style="color: #954f72;">Roosevelt’s Grief</a> – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/02/heart-devoted-welfare-country-inaugural-address-john-quincy-adams.html" style="color: #954f72;">“A Heart Devoted to the Welfare of Our Country”</a> – John Quincy Adams’ inaugural address via The Imaginative Conservative. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/how-the-1619-project-distorted-history/ar-AA1m6elm" style="color: #954f72;">How the 1619 Project Distorted History</a> – James Oakes at <i>Jacobin</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/metaphor/" style="color: #954f72;">Metaphor</a> and <a href="https://sonjabenskinmesher.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/rain-of-one-afternoon/" style="color: #954f72;">Rain of one afternoon</a> – Sonja Benskin Mesher.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/23/early-gerhard-richter-mural-painted-over-in-1979-resurfaces-in-dresden" style="color: #954f72;">Early Gerhard Richter mural, painted over in 1979, resurfaces in Dresden</a> – Catherine Hickley at The Art Newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/war-and-genocide-in-the-name-of-god/" style="color: #954f72;">War and Genocide in the Name of God</a> – Nicholas Denysenko at Church Life Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shadow of Shaddai – Steffany Gretzinger<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TKeQmM2SG64" width="320" youtube-src-id="TKeQmM2SG64"></iframe></div><i style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></p>Painting: Portrait of a Rabbi. Oil on canvas circa 1900. Artist unknown</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><p></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-63938316574044080092024-02-23T05:00:00.003-06:002024-02-23T05:00:00.346-06:00A simple word<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2FcjjKMDkHqX1neRm3uPOFScCKZWXnwDyX51VXG9EmYFHY_zMg85_iFfVp-59NQ-uWEe3x1DVM6zI99LRosxTSbK_rY2np6EUjeG86ipdinSssqXiGtpyVc8thNN2qwG9awkfKjFHfVxUSN7UwxdsQxu3Pp7OLZhdfXZvVXVE8ZyNrfZ3NJBXZCJn/s5204/A%20simple%20word.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3469" data-original-width="5204" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2FcjjKMDkHqX1neRm3uPOFScCKZWXnwDyX51VXG9EmYFHY_zMg85_iFfVp-59NQ-uWEe3x1DVM6zI99LRosxTSbK_rY2np6EUjeG86ipdinSssqXiGtpyVc8thNN2qwG9awkfKjFHfVxUSN7UwxdsQxu3Pp7OLZhdfXZvVXVE8ZyNrfZ3NJBXZCJn/w400-h266/A%20simple%20word.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">After Hebrews 1:1-4</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He speaks a single word,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the universe must<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">listen. He speaks a single<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">idea, and the universe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">must hear it, accept it,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">own it. A single word,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the universe must<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">obey, pay heed, take<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">heed, absorb it. He<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">created the world;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">his word upholds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>Photograph by Sixteen Miles Out via <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/-D9sARVJfHM" style="color: #954f72;">Unsplash</a>. Used with permission</span></i><span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Some Friday Readings</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://kingdompoets.blogspot.com/2024/02/geoffrey-chaucer.html" style="color: #96607d;">From the Knight’s Tale</a> – Geoffrey Chaucer at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://rabbitroompoetry.substack.com/p/glossolalia-chris-wheeler" style="color: #96607d;">Glossolalia</a> – poem by Chris Wheeler at Rabbit Room Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://francoamati.substack.com/p/observations-of-eternity" style="color: #96607d;">Observations of eternity</a> – poem by Franco Amati at Garbage Notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://jodycollins.substack.com/p/riffing-on-the-psalms" style="color: #96607d;">Riffing on the Psalms</a> – Jody Lee Collins at Poetry & Made Things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sethlewis.ie/2024/02/21/pause-a-poem/" style="color: #96607d;">Pause</a> – poem by Seth Lewis.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.com0