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Lessons from Losing

Posted in Article, Belief, Encouragement, Religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It finally happened. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh finally lost a volleyball match. They last lost in mid August of last year—112 matches. Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh, which happens to be the same team they lost to last year, beat them in three sets. Instead of focusing on why they lost, I want to [...]

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Probable Impossibles

Posted in Belief, Fiction, L'engle, Non-fiction, William Young, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Madeleine L’Engle in Walking on Water quotes Aristotle: “That which is probable and impossible is better than that which is possible and improbable.” Fiction works this way. We buy the boy riding the dragon (an impossibility) because the author has made it a probable occurrence in his novel. However, when a normal character does something [...]

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Offering belief in suffering

Posted in Alan Paton, Belief, Church, Fiction, Love, Novel, Suffering, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Kumalo said, 
…so in my suffering I can believe.
How? In the face of what he had suffered: a child condemned to death, a sister forsaking hope for sin, starvation among his people, how could he believe?
Kindness and love can pay for suffering.
The body of Christ rose up and held his hand, supported his frail body and [...]

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Believing despite knowing

Posted in Achebe, Belief, Fiction, God, Knowledge, Novel, tagged , , , , , , , on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In The Village (a must watch for any Christian) the leaders keep the rest of the group in the dark about certain things in order to perserve their way of life. (Even though this is “Thoughts on what I am reading…,” it might be worth it at some point to discuss that movie.) No one [...]

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