Author: Tim
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Sketchbook: Union County Barns, April 2014
I love these huddles of many barns on these Ohio farms. It’s like reading a family tree in weathered form. When did they add that little child? And why that odd angle? One of cinder block but then the rest of tin? Did they have twins one year for the corn harvest? The collection of…
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Conversation is Simple.
Are we just complicating something simple? When we first talked, it was “I’ll say something, you say something back.” Exactly. This is all we do, I agree. Inside the moment this is all we experience. To adapt something from C.S. Lewis, looking through the crack in the door we don’t see the sunbeam. The light…
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Conversation: No Conceding
You cannot be wrong, you cannot let me be wrong, yet you cannot concede or allow me to concede. When my friend speaks, his words become my thoughts. Concession is acknowledgment of the friend’s words but without truly internalizing them. It is a false assent. It is a failure of rigor. If I concede my…
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An Odd Credo (Douglas Wilson)
http://dougwils.com/s16-theology/an-odd-credo.html I believe that God is God, and that we are not. I believe that Jesus is our Savior, and that we are not. I believe that the Holy Spirit is our wisdom, and that we are not. I believe that Jesus died under the wrath of God for our sin, and that He was…
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Malcolm Muggeridge: “The depravity of man…most empirically verifiable reality…”
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time most intellectually resisted fact”. Malcolm Muggeridge
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Christmas: Lights In Trees!
Christmas is the height of the “already / not yet” tension in the liturgical calendar. We feel both at home and yet restless in the world. Intense “already”, and yet intense “not yet”, and they intensify each other, like light in a chamber of mirrors. As the Kingdom appears here, we sense more of it…
