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George Herbert Turned This Woman to Christ
My teenage self was rather proud of being a “cultured despiser of religion“. I had dismissed religion as being for the weak of mind, a crutch, something that intelligence and reason made unnecessary and undesirable. But here was some of the most fiercely intelligent poetry I had ever read, grappling with Christian doctrines and with a relationship with God. If this brilliant mind believed all this, and devoted a life to it, then clearly I needed to look at it again.
It is this question that slipped under my guard as a teenager. It was easy to dismiss the truth of the 20 impossible things that religion seemed to expect me to believe before breakfast. It was much harder to dismiss my own emotional reaction to these poems: the beauty, the yearning, the enticing danger. They left me with the sense that I was standing on a cliff, staring out to sea, hearing marvellous tales of lands beyond the horizon and wondering if they were, after all, just fairy tales or whether the intensity with which the tales were told was evidence that the teller had indeed seen a barely imagined kingdom.
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The Oxen Law
CT Flow chart showing Levitical Law for Oxen mishaps.
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Bible stops bullets
NY Daily News, and the fun thing is it’s “The Message” :)))
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What Story Did You Receive? What Story Do You Choose? What Story are You?
Born to the Right Family
When my oldest child was born in the Dominican Republic my wife and I brought him to the American consulate to get his American passport.
When you arrive at the consulate in Santo Domingo you immediately see an enormous line of Dominican nationals waiting to apply or interview for a visa or some other legal means to enter the United States. My wife and I, armed with blue passports did not need to wait in this line. We had made our appointment so we went to a different door, showed our blue passports to the guards and let inside to a quiet, air-conditioned room to await our interview.
We presented the consulate worker with our documents, my son’s Dominican birth certificate and pictures of the birth to try to demonstrate that this little white baby was indeed our own. Upon examination of the child and the documents our paperwork was approved and in time our little baby boy received his own blue passport. With that passport he could now travel, with his parents, to that great promised land to the North.
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How Parenting Shapes the Brain
“The brain is dependent on experience to develop normally,” he said. “What happens in situations of neglect, such as kids raised in institutions, is that the experiences are lacking. So the brain is sort of in a holding pattern saying, ‘Okay, so where’s the experience? Where’s the experience? Where’s the experience?’ And when the experience fails to occur, those circuits either fail to develop or they develop in an atypical fashion — and the result is, in a sense, the mis-wiring of circuits.”
“The big question is, what happens 10 or 20 or 30 years down the line,” he said. “The speculation would be you will progressively find yourself more and more disadvantaged or more and more handicapped.” Continue reading
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Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth talks about the CRC
I tell you that because this whole matter of understanding who folks are. Some of the most likely people that you will ever encounter in the Protestant world who have yearnings for things Orthodox, will be Reformed Christian people. I want to talk a little bit about why that is and just give you a sense of this.
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