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So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. | James 2.12-13 I have been sitting in this phrase for the last few weeks (maybe months): mercy triumphs over judgment. It […]

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. | Henry David Thoreau In the book Walden, Thoreau makes this observation about people and their ‘quiet desperation.’ By this, he means that all people have this ideal of life in them that they are […]

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial. God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idolized […]

The title of this post is taken from the best-selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert (with my own personal embellishments). I use it because this post is about the news that Elizabeth Gilbert has left her husband to enter into a lesbian relationship with her best friend. In 2016, that previous sentence is no longer a […]

This is not the first time (nor will it probably be the last) that I reprint the writing of Wendell Berry to pass off as ‘my blog.’ As we have discussed marriage as God intends it: this complementary ‘one flesh’ relationship where two individuals come together to create something new and different and greater than […]

One of my favorite poems – from a son to a father – giving direction on what it looks like to grow into a man.   If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, […]