Why is it so painful to listen to people talk about Jesus in Christian films? When people are saved on celluloid, I cringe. However, I love seeing flesh and blood human beings turn from their wickedness and live. What gives? Last year, in the span of a few autumnal weeks, I watched two very different […]
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It is the day after Thanksgiving, and a few days till Advent. Over the next few weeks, all our learning and living will take place in the context of bustle and anticipation, joy and solemnity, fasting and feasting. This merits some reflection. Most days we trip along doing more or less the same thing, trying
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Sometimes the Internet is just glorious. I recently stumbled upon a rare recording of Flannery O’Connor reading her own story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” What an amazing find! I’m going to admit something rather embarassing: her very thick Georgia accent totally surprised me! Writers are supposed to speak the King’s English, right?
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If even a fraction of public school teachers were at least encouraged to nod away from progressive education and toward classical education, that would benefit American students a great deal.
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If you have taken my advice you will be deep in the middle of a murder mystery this cold January afternoon. Perhaps I could also interest you in another favorite genre: Southern Literature. I am a southern transplant. I was born in Ohio but at the tender age of 3 my family to Florida. I
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