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President Obama’s Op-Ed piece on his heath care reforms. Here’s an excerpt: There are four main ways the reform we’re proposing will provide more stability and security to every American. First, if you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of high-quality, affordable coverage for yourself and your family — coverage that will…

Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,…

Just saw this… What’s the best crazy deal you’ve ever found? (You can read the rest of the article at the link, which generates another story: Ever seen that much integrity?) ROME — You had to be quick, but what a deal. A four-star hotel near Venice mistakenly offered the ultimate low-cost vacation — a…

Steve McCoy, pastor at Doxa Fellowship, is also a great photographer — and this one of summer lightning is amazing: This NYTimes article, which I missed when it came out, really helped me understand the pragmatics of Obamacare. (HT: K) LaVonne Neff’s letter to Congress. Jarrod McKenna, one of the Bonhoeffer Four in Australia. Brian…

Beginning Monday we will begin a series on President Barack Obama’s health care proposals (Obamacare). We want to exhibit to the American public that a civil conversation can happen, that it can happen over serious issues, and that it can happen when folks disagree with one another. Please join us — Monday. What are the…

We are in a conversation and discussion about John Walton’s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Proposition 6: Days 4 to 6 install functionaries. “… in most cases the functionaries simply carry out their own functions in the spheres delineated in the first three…

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education.   He argued, ‘What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?’ He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers:…

Sleep, O sleep in the calm of each calm. Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of all guidance. Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves. Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life. Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life. The peace of all peace be mine this night + in the…

We’re wondering who has seen the new Meryl Streep movie, Julia and Julia? Any recommendations, etc? What did you think? Come to think of it, I think the last movie we saw was with Meryl Streep in Mama Mia!

Wow, the lavishly illustrated The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends has occupied too much of my time. I couldn’t put the thing down. What this book is a sumptuous, color collection of pictures of the Oxford worlds in which Lewis, Tolkien and friends lived. Even a picture…
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