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“…and the pulpit is its prow.”
Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the likeness of ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s fiddle-headed beak. What could be more full of…
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Readers on Reading: Michael Washington
Michael Washington reads more than just about anyone I know. He also reads deeply and you get a sense of this as you read either of his two blogs: Intersections and For Fathers. What books are you currently reading? Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis; Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Barbara…
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Violence 6: People Have Been Raiding It
It’s been a month since my last meditation on violence but a final item keeps turning over in my mind. Its a short passage from the Gospel of Matthew, a saying of Jesus remarkable for its surprising imagery and – for me, at least – inscrutability. John the Baptist’s disciples have come to double-check with…
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Readers on Reading: Tonya Westervelt
Tonya Westervelt and her husband Tom are long-time friends and some of the funnest people we know. Tonya is always reading something interesting and she occasionally blogs about these books on her blog. What books are you currently reading? Wild Things by Stephen James and David Thomas and Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 