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C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide
C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper (Harper San Francisco , 1996) At over 940 pages in length, this is not...
sursumcorda, 8 May 2020 |
A Happy Shopping Experience
I could have avoided shopping this week, though we were out of several things in the produce line, so I'm glad I did. Since many...
Two Outings, and Musing about Priorities
My Google Maps Timeline is boring: I haven't been anywhere since my grocery store outing on April 21st. Not that I'm suffering much,...
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C. S. Lewis (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963) Unlike Lewis's Letters to Children...
Flags Flound
I thought these had disappeared decades ago, yet look what showed up when I cleaned out our closet! (Click to enlarge.) I...
Braving the Grocery Store, and Other Tales of Isolation
Last Tuesday morning I ventured out of the house to take advantage of the "senior shopping hours" from 7 to 8 at Publix. Our need was...
Letters to Children
Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis, edited by Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead (Touchstone, 1985) For a man whose...
Thoughts on Freedom and Safety: A Guest Post by Wyatt
The following is another guest post from my "youthful correspondent," who now has a name: Wyatt. His previous...
Snow Fell on Easter Sunday
Nearly 50 years ago, in a small room at the University of Rochester, a group of Christians gathered every Tuesday night for worship and...
Killing Jesus
Killing Jesus: A History by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt, 2013) I wasn't planning to read another of...
Hiding in My Room
Is anyone else old enough to be haunted by Simon & Garfunkel's I Am a Rock , written in the mid-1960's? I have my books And...
A Brief Outing
Staying home is generally not a problem for me. I have 'way too much on my plate to be bored, and in fact appreciate the extra time. (I...
Easter 2020
Perhaps my favorite service of the church year is the Easter Vigil, usually held on Saturday night. Here's my description of our...
Killing Kennedy, Killing Reagan
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt, 2012) Killing Reagan: The...
Good Friday, 2020
On this unusual Good Friday, in an unusual Holy Week, in an unusual year, I'm reviving a post I wrote ten years ago. Is there...
Hey, Boomers!
Hey, Boomer! Would you process my unemployment claim, please? At first I thought the headline was a joke: Wanted...
New Front Door Sign
I haven't actually put this sign on our front door—yet. At the best of times I don't like solicitors coming to our house, and this...
Documenting the COVID-19 Experience
For many years I kept a journal. I quit for a several reasons, one of which was this blog. It is unquestionably true that I must write...
Eyeglasses Adventure
'Twas Porter who went out today, as one of the earpieces on his glasses broke. It was a bit more of an adventure than we expected....
It's Still Palm Sunday
How different today is from what we expected just a month ago. Our house should be bursting with family: all six of Janet's family from...
Mobile Chick-fil-A
Since we can't dine with friends, there's not much point in visiting restaurants. However, our local Chick-fil-A sent a coupon for...
Thank You, Governor DeSantis
I was not at first happy that Ron DeSantis, Florida's governor, issued an executive "stay-at-home" order. It is not as if Florida had...
The Four Loves
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1960) Of all the Lewis books I've read so far, this is the one...
Sunday Adventures
Having not been out of the house, except for short, solitary walks around the neighborhood, since last Sunday, I was glad to be able to...
The Great Litany
When the church finds itself in a time of great need, we typically break out the strongest thing we have in our arsenal, and that is...