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A Thanksgiving Book Club

November 10, 2013

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series The First Thanksgiving

An invitation to read with me through The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God & Learning from History .

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| History
Tagged With: History, Holidays, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Wheaton College
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Ozeki’s “Tale” Entangles Readers

October 24, 2013

First sixteen pages
Seventeen footnotes ask, “Is
She making this up?”

A Tale for the Time Being

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Shelved with: Literature|| Visions & Ventures
Tagged With: GoBigRead Japan
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Learning to Smell

August 3, 2013

“by practice alone…”

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Shelved with: The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Botany, Medicine, Quotes
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Wounded & Holy

April 27, 2013

Of course there is woundedness, but there is holiness as well. How the two come together — not which one wins, but how they join — constitutes the unique and profound meaning of one’s life: the emergence out of the maelstrom of the true self, transformed in Christ.

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Word in Prayer

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St. Patrick by Hamish Burgess

The Breastplate of St. Patrick

March 17, 2013

I bind unto myself the power /
Of the great love of the cherubim; /
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, /
The service of the seraphim, /
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, /
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, /
All good deeds done unto the Lord, /
And purity of virgin souls.

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Shelved with: Literature|| Reading the Word|| Visions & Ventures|| Visual Arts|| Word in Season|| Word in Worship
Tagged With: arts, celtic, Holidays, prayer, St. Patrick
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Hope

Why Hope Isn’t Always a Good Thing

January 22, 2013

Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.

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Tagged With: Hope, Politics, Virtue
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