January 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
October 2011
8 posts
Psalm 51
You delight in truth in the inward being and teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
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September 2011
12 posts
the inward and spiritual reality
One factor, always central to self-righteousness: externalism. Try as we might to control the ingrained habits of the body and the mind, what we are comes out. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” and I will add: and the mind thinks (Matthew 12). In the unguarded moments, a heart of self-righteousness and external control produces careless words. In the unguarded...
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The new A.A. Bondy is just what I hoped for.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
your affectionate uncle, screwtape says:
“Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of wordly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours— and the more ‘religious’ (on those terms) the more securely...
September 2009
2 posts
“I’m in college. I don’t need common sense.” -freshman girl on the bus
I don’t even know what this is supposed to mean, but it occurred to me that maybe this philosophy is shared by more people than i could ever imagine. Possibly all the idiotic things that college students get themselves into aren’t from a shortage in natural common sense, but the intentional...
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
2 posts
June 2009
14 posts
“If I was a solo act, I think I’d be called Bearcat.”
– David D Hall
a credo of sorts
you shall above all things be glad and young. For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become. Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need: i can entirely her only love
whose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off time
that you should ever think,may god forbid and(in his mercy)your...
return
I am returning to tumblr for the summer… with this:
yesterday,
while i was walking home from downtown i took a whiff, a sniff of something and without a moment’s hesitation, i said to myself (in my head of course, i’m not crazy you know), “this smells like vbs.” that’s vacation bible school for all you pagans.
i spent the rest of the way home, first, thinking...
March 2009
3 posts
these words have actually been spoken:
“Tyra, this woman is amazing. She’s an entity. She’s a force. She’s extra-terrestrial. Oh my god.”
