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Finished reading: George Washington On Leadership by Richard Brookhiser 📚 Fantastic book. Washington continues to lead and inspire.
Finished reading: Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo. Tough man. Lots to learn from his story. 📚
📚 A couple weeks ago I heard The Life of Saint Macrina by her brother, Gregory of Nyssa, for the first time . It’s not long and worth a listen. She and her family often chose confessing Christ over anything else.
Test your history skills with Wikitrivia. You only get three lives.
🔗 tosdr.org—Terms of Service; Didn’t Read—summarizes what you agreed to when you signed up for __________.
What were the “high places”?
It may then be easiest to understand high places not as a reference to temporal space, but to a “higher” theological place.
🎵 I love this string arrangement of Mock Morris. My dad taught us to play this in Jr. High. So fun!
Ever wonder what to think of “Of David” or “Of Asaph” in the Psalms? And what about the collection as a whole? James M. Hamilton Jr. has an idea I like about who wrote the Psalms.
Were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Nineveh? Here’s some evidence.
The Nictone Theological Journal is finally back.
Read through the Shorter Catechism tonight with 20+ others from church. I took small breaks along the way to answer questions and the Mrs. made some burritos for us to eat about halfway through. Fun evening.
When you make a plan to kill a public person, the kind of public person who is animated by a powerful inner force, you’d better make sure to kill him… there’s that powerful inner force to deal with: what if, by killing him, you just let it out?
It’s Good Friday. I’m thinkinng about sympathy, empathy, and the cross.
Here’s Thomas Murphy’s plan for memorizing scripture in 15 minutes a day.
🎧 Listen to Billy Collins tell Alan Alda about writing poetry. He has great advice for creative work of all kinds.
We’re big fans of BRBC Family Camp at Covenant. Check out the new website I made for this year. Registration is now open!
