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: Finished reading: Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon 📚 Very short, compact, …
: Brian Dillon, Essayism: “On Being Ill” concludes with a vision of Lady Waterford and her overactive …
: Currently reading: Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day 📚 Dorothy Day: I had bought a small phonograph …
: forgetting to say what you want to say
: During a class, there’s the temptation to let your attention lapse and not make effort to …
: Today we were at Mbagathi County Referral Hospital, the third day of our ‘Child Health’ …
: Aaron Labaree: Witgensttein: “I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to …
: Two reviews of Vladimir Nabokov’s Mary Daniel Moran Aaron Labaree
: Finished reading: Mary by Vladimir Nabokov 📚 Huh! 😭
: For this year’s Girlfriends' Day, I wrote this article on my Substack
: Currently reading: Mary by Vladimir Nabokov 📚 There’s something strangely familiar about how …
: A troubling passage about narcissism: Grandiose Narcissists vs Vulnerable Narcissists
: A sermon by Charles Spurgeon on the Deceitfulness of Sin
: Finished reading: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai 📚 🔥
: Just finished watching: Panchayat S1E4, Hamara Neta Kaisa Ho? 📺 Really good, and funny!
: I find this interesting, First Things About page: The Institute on Religion and Public Life is a …
: I have often felt that I am plagued by a kind of inferiority complex. I feel, however, that the …
: Currently reading: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai 📚 I thought I knew Wangari Maathai. But now I know it …
: One of the, as it seems to me, most important lessons I am learning writing online, is how to use …
: I think this one here is such a wonderful piece. The Long way!
: Here’s a post on Substack: The hitter can never be judge
: Currently reading: House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 📚 What really is the word to describe this …
: Currently watching: The House of the Spirits S1E1, Rosa the Beautiful 🍿 I feel it will be wiser to …
: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days: It was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich poverty …
: Haya! Just finished reading this. If you were a delegate in the Commission Conference 2024 by FOCUS …
: Finished reading: Africa to the Rest by Yaw Perbi, Sam Ngugi. Such an encouraging read!📚
: It usually happens that I procrastinate about reading a book, but once I get into it, I feel like I …
: Finished reading: Keys to the Deeper Life by A. W. Tozer. Very sobering.📚
: Just finished reading: Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston. Clearly this one here is a …
: Finished reading: The Voyage of the Downtreader by Clive Staples Lewis 📚
: Thomas Pynchon’s review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera
: Finished reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 📚. What a ride!
: C. S. Lewis, We have no right to happiness, God in the Dock: It is part of the nature of a strong …
: Samuel Johnson, the uncertainty of friendship Those who would gladly pass their days together may …
: Currently reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 📚
: My July Reading List and a reflection on June’s Reading
: When the Bible is pretty sarcastic
: I have stopped reading The Samurai’s Garden A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama 📚. I remember being so …
: Hosea is quite a book! 💜 Much to glean from and reflect on!
: 4th Philokalia discussion tonight on Morrison’s Beloved. A little catching up to do before …
: Finished reading: The history of Christian thought by Hill, Jonathan 📚
: Finished reading: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 💜🥳
: Finished reading: Night by Elie Wiesel 📚
: Alan Jacobs: If you read old novels — as I do — you’ll occasionally come across a certain phrase: …
: Finished reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison 📚 My oh my!
: L. M. Sacasas Interestingly enough, the insertion of an ordinary language interface between …
: Finished reading: The Narnian by Alan Jacobs 📚
: Finished reading: The Republic by Plato 📚
: Finished reading: When the Sun Goes Down by Emilia Ilieva and Waveney Olembo 📚
: Finished reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
: Currently reading: Evangelism - Now and Then by Michael Green 📚
: Finished reading: What is the Gospel? by Greg Gilbert 📚 So, Henry, what is the Gospel?!
: Finished reading: I Can’t Help Praising the Lord The Life of Billy Bray by F. W. Bourne 📚 on …
: Finished reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 📚 Perhaps cliche to say, but this and Crime and …
: I have written an article on Substack, arguing for the need to confess our sins as a practical step …
: I posted an article on Substack about how we are sometimes wrong to think that we are in charge.
: Currently reading: Total Truth Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey …
: Spending Time with Christ at Noon
: Finished reading: The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen 📚. What am I to say about it?
: We must pay close attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it, Hebrews 2:1 It is …
: We are not to implicitly trust our conscience. Whenever our conscience condemns us (1 John 3:20), we …
: Job 9:4 Who has hardened himself against God, and succeeded?
: Yes, sometimes life does consist of so much performances, but I have begun to feel it takes …
: That Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is this good, and to think that I kept myself from …
: Words you likely are pronouncing wrongly
: Are you for us, or for our enemies?
: Charles Spurgeon: God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; …
: The creeds, are meant to summarize the most important tenets of our Christian Faith. The …
: This morning… This isthe Catholic Faith, anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will …
: Soldering on, my aim? a full life. What I really am glad to know is C. S. Lewis wouldn’t want …
: I know how much I am still struggling to be able to judge and test assertions as I read. I often …
: 10 mistakes I am also making as a university student… 10 Mistakes I Made As a University …
: I hate how much of a sad endeavor it all usually is, trying to be something in the sight of men.
: I spent the weekend at FOCUS Centre, Kasarani. An RSEC retreat. FOCUS is Fellowship of Christians …
: I am learning that when I say an apparently difficult word, or just some big vocab, I should rush on …
: This film about Henri Nouwen is just as moving as you would expect. youtu.be/faQXF33rQ…
: Five times out of ten the answer should be No
: How much faith does a man need?
: A heaven just large enough for me
: Sow your seed, and withhold not your hand
: Who do people say that I am?
: Jacob Allee: It is our actions that define us and it is what we do today that matters more than …
: To know less than nothing about something… Jacob’s First Law
: Skip the syndication, Alan Jacobs
: The Pleasure of Reading, Alan Jacobs
: Men value relationships more and suffer more from breakups than women.
: Perfectionism - Annie Dillard
: Alan Jacobs: We all must know our place
: It had never occured to me that Garcia’s short story, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, …
: Rereading stuff helps us more than we know. By cultivating a habit of going back to things you …
: John Owen: Satan tends to attack us according to our particular personalities, moving against a …
: Finished reading: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 📚 A few thoughts will follow here. I am not …