Atheists, Anti-theists, and Humanists…
I have nothing against Christianity. I wish more Christians practiced it. ~John Scalzi, Whatever: Leviticans Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 Author: John Scalzi Well, I...
View ArticleDisillusioned Self-Love…
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself. ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest My Utmost For His Highest: Limited...
View ArticleExtenuating nothing…
Think not about thy sin so as to make it either less or greater in thine own eyes. Bring it to Jesus and let Him show thee how vile a thing it is. And leave it to Him to judge thee, sure that he will...
View ArticleSo it Goes…
The guide invited the crowd to imagine that they were looking across a desert at a mountain range on a day that was twinkling bright and clear. They could look at a peak or a bird or a cloud, at a...
View ArticleOne-Time Empathy For Sale…
Make one gift now and we’ll never ask for another donation again. ~Smiletrain Sorting through my junk mail pile tonight, I was actually struck and stopped by this postcard… strangely, its offer was...
View ArticleMy Visioneering…
Every once in a while I watch a film that truly seems to capture a vision of life that is much like my own (actually it is happening quite often lately). I not only identify with it, it is my own...
View ArticleBe brief, Be blunt, Be gone…
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand The Dyer’s Hand and Other...
View ArticleLivonia Man Watches too many Documentaries…
I tend to go on binges when it comes to documentaries. I love them in general, like a box of Nutter Butters that I have forgotten about… they are safe… …until I am rummaging around in the cupboard and...
View ArticleA Trilogy of Design…
So I did not make it out to the Toronto film festival this year, but fortunately for me, I still live near a great city that gets all the coolest films at some great venues (no, not Ann Arbor). Last...
View ArticleHow to Live a Creative Life…
Scorsese, to pick a side in an endless argument, is America’s greatest living director. And yet he still can’t make up his damn mind, still gets obsessed, still gets crazed by the same kinds of things...
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