2026-10-01
1 Kings 10:24 And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his mind.
James 1:5 If anyone of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God , who gives …
Yes, here’s another particularly ambitious reading list for, of all people, a medical student. And of course an insufferable essay to accompany it.
I think myself to be not so much in danger of …
2026-09-30
1 Kings 9:4-7 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and …
2026-09-29
1 Kings 8:57-58 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us nor forsake us, that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his …
Picture a woman who has just given birth prematurely. Her baby boy was born by cesarean section, and now she has a surgical incision that needs to heal. Her son, who is in the …
Finished reading: Religio Medici by Browne, Thomas 📚
Thomas Browne, Urne-Buriall:
Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent, who deal so with men in this world, that they are not afraid to meet them in the next, who when they dye, make no commotion among the dead
Finished reading: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor 📚
No wonder Flannery O’Connor was so misunderstood, and her work interpreted in ways other than she intended!
Emma Woodhouse to Harriet Smith:
“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to ‘Yes,’ she ought to say ‘No’ directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart. I thought it my duty as a friend, and older than yourself, to say thus much to you. But do not imagine that I want to influence you.”
Really?
2026-09-28
1 Kings 7:13-14 And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full …