Posts from ‘November, 2008’

There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air -
I wont tell no lie;
If you listen carefully now you will hear.
– Bob Marley

Mystic is a word that is bound to raise eyebrows in your local mainline denomination church.  It’s even hard to find many Pentecostals that really like the term.  I, however, am entranced by it.  [...]

Revisiting a Chesterton quote that I love.
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. [...]

I have a few (relatively) harmless addictions.  One of them is National Public Radio.  This American Life is the type of program that get me excited about radio.  It makes it very easy to envision my grandparents and great-grandparents huddling around an antique radio, waiting in anticipation.   Back in May, I heard a very interesting [...]