Finished reading: Religio Medici by Browne, Thomas 📚
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 …
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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 …
2026-09-27
1 Kings 6:7 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
It …
2026-09-26
1 Kings 5:4-5 But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There’s neither adversary nor misfortune. And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as …
2026-09-25
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breath of mind like the sand on the sea shore, so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all …
2026-09-24
1 Kings 3:26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, giver her the living child, and by no means put him to …