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The New Quotable: Using Twitter Carefully.
(Today the Strife welcomes a guest post from Jared Wellman.) Have you ever driven by a church sign that read something like, “Come inside, we have prayer conditioning”? These kinds of signs irritate...
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Students and Literacy.
I recently wrote a guest post for the guys over at Rooted: Grace-Driven Youth Ministry. They have an upcoming conference for those involved in student ministry that I encourage you to attend. Here is...
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The Joy of “Desiring:” CS Lewis.
(The first post in this series on “Desire” can be found here: “A Heart that Longs to Look: GK Chesterton.”) “In speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find ourselves even now, I...
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CBMW: An Article and An Announcement.
Hi friends, I hope you are well. I want to thank you for reading the articles I post here. For sharing them, retweeting them, following the blog, and commenting when you can. You are appreciated. I...
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Feeling “Homesick:” Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
(We have been looking at the concept of “longing” or “desire.” So far we have examined “desire/longing” in the life and work of GK Chesterton and CS Lewis. You can view those articles by clicking on...
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Speak Plainly: Learning from Lewis.
We all know one. Those people who are compelled to speak using big words when the conversation could continue just fine without the entrance of such unnecessarily awkward terminology. Don’t...
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Surprise the Sun.
The alarm goes off. Can you hear it? What does it sound like? Is your alarm screeching? Does it beep louder, louder, louder? Does it startle you? Whether you know it or not, it is the voice of a...
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When the Writer Goes Silent.
When the writer goes silent, he might be: reading thinking watching old episodes of “the Office” drinking coffee listening praying staring at a blank screen hating himself for not writing watching...
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Piety: Recovering True Religion.
Religion is like a chubby 7th grader these days. Every day it seems its getting pantsed in the locker room of ideas, never to be seen the same way again. We could say it started back with Jefferson...
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All Mediocre Things…Must come to an End.
I want to thank you. Many of you have been reading this blog for years. You endured my fascination with cultural criticism, as I wrote posts slamming George Bush and the war in Iraq. You endured my...
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