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"He hath filled the hungry with good things." Devotional, Personal and Incidental Writings.
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Can we receive a gift without fear? (opens the original)
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St Augustine tells us that we love rightly when our loves are ordered in a proper hierarchy with God at the apex.Films Worth Watching - Babette’s Feast (1987)Babette’s Feast was made in the same year that I was born but I have only recently watched it for the first time. I think it is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. The premise sounds very boring: a remote Danish village in the 19th century, two sisters who grow up under the care and tutelage of their charismatic, though highly purit
Turning Up the Contrast (opens the original)
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…what happens after Christianity has had its beneficial effects and people have forgotten about it?I recently finished Rodney Stark’s The Rise of Christianity. This is a fascinating book that seeks to explain why Christianity went from a relatively obscure Jerusalem sect to the dominant religion of the mighty Roman Empire.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!L6yq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.am
What are we educating our children for? (opens the original)
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O God, my God, ‘what miseries I experienced’ at this stage of my life, and what delusions when in my boyhood it was set before me as my moral duty in life to obey those who admonished me with the purpose that I should succeed in this world, and should excel in the arts of using my tongue to gain access to human honours and to acquire deceitful riches. I was sent to school to write. Poor wretch, I did not understand for what such knowledge is useful.Saint Augustine, Confessions, I.ix<a class="ima
The Problem With Getting What We Ask For (opens the original)
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The Problem With Getting What We Ask For<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1009" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KqMs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2
Writing Our Prayers (opens the original)
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Writing Our Prayers<img alt="Faith Lesson from Ephesians 2:8–9: Saved by Grace Through" class="sizing-normal" height="2184" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WeLw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
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