Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and… Continue reading Household of God
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Tarantulas, Blinds, and the Inside of the Cup
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It was a tarantula, the size of my hand, crawling down my bedroom blinds. I woke up with a start, got out of bed on the side farther from the window,… Continue reading Tarantulas, Blinds, and the Inside of the Cup
Conversion Moments, Large and Small
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. We understand why Christians might have been taken aback initially by Paul’s conversion. After all, he’d been at Stephen’s stoning. He had seemed to enjoy persecuting people like them. Now, there… Continue reading Conversion Moments, Large and Small
Winning… and Losing
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. I’m reading The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (by Simon Sebag Montefiore, who also wrote the Stalin book I read last summer). I’ve long been fascinated by the tragic story of the last tsar… Continue reading Winning… and Losing