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martin luther king jr, 40 years today
Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty. These were Martin Luther King Jr’s last words, 40 years ago today. Moments earlier James Earl Ray shot King while he was standing outside of his room on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in…
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3 quick things
A really great event at a really lame time: Dr. Charles Marsh will deliver a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King’s assassination at Wheaton College on Friday at 3:30. Details here. Part 2 of my Jesus for President review is up over at Out of Ur. A new Parkview staff blogger…
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Maggie and I don’t have children, but I still found this interview with Pamela Paul in Salon really interesting. The playpen is something that all of our parents used. You plopped the kid in it, and then you ran to take the laundry out of the washing machine, and throw it in the dryer, or…
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christopher wright, “the mission of God”
A friend of mine keeps a blog called Occasional Cigarettes. This guy is working on a masters degree in linguistics and apparently his blog title is something that a linguist would find amusing… but it goes right over my head. Anyway, the other day he quoted Christopher Wright from his latest book, The Mission of…
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