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Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Approaching Christmas Eve As The Perpetual Newcomer

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I have issues with Christmas Eve, particularly the church service. That's the service when I discover that I, my wife and my kids, who ...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

The Power Of Prayer

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Commenting on yesterday's post , Paul raises an interesting point about the potentially fraught relationship between mentor and mentee....
Monday, July 05, 2010

An Aboriginal Lourdes?

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I was culling through old e-mails this morning, and ruefully wishing I could just post some of the exchanges I've had with readers and f...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Lapham's Quarterly

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"As for Laney, she was no sure proof of God, and her disappearance proves nothing about God, but God feels a little less present to me ...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Of Church Ruins And Abandoned Malls

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Our county has lost another of its historic churches — Whitby's All Saints' Anglican — likely to arson. Speaking from experience ...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Spirituality by Carl McColman

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Whenever I've engaged someone in The Talking Cure, it's usually been a person with a religious background not too dissimilar from my...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Johnny LaRue's Cure-All

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The last few posts seem to find me sinking in a religious direction. As Johnny LaRue used to say, "The only way to cure a hangover is ...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Icons, And The Trouble They Brew

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"The honor accorded to the image passes over to its prototype, and whoever adores the image adores in it the reality of what is there r...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Here's me in the corner, searching for my religion

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I was asked if I would teach Sunday school. I explained to the minister that I didn't really believe in God, but I couldn't live as ...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Walking Away From Faith by Ruth A. Tucker, and a Calvinist-inspired bunny-trail of some significance

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I dreamed I had a fever I was pushin one-oh-three My mom’s all upset - cryin’ by my bedside Everybody’s prayin’ for me I hear a scratchin at...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Getting to Miles, Take 2

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I've been re-shuffling my links, introducing a new category titled (at present) "Lecterns & Pulpits." I got to thinking I ...
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