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
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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
Standing Outside
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. Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting… Continue reading Standing Outside
Of Sorrow and Faith
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 truly sorrowful earthly life for Mary, if you want to look at it that way. Fleeing into Egypt with her family because an angel told her husband her… Continue reading Of Sorrow and Faith