February 2011
95 posts
today I talked with my parents about traveling the world.
These Photos are Awesome: "Back to the Future" →
“But in fact every Christian is a “sent one” (the meaning of the...”
– Gender and Grace - Mary Stewart VanLeeuwen
I’m not sure how I feel about this super-evangelistic tone, but I’m all for gender equality within Christianity and mission work; also, this makes an important point about priorities.
Faith & Science I Paper →
Word of the Day:
contumacious: [kon-too-mey-shuhs]
- adjective. stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully & obstinately disobedient.
“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the...”
– Galileo Galilei
“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a...”
– Emily Dickinson 112 [67]
Age of Consent Around the World... →
“There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons -
That oppresses,...”
– Emily Dickinson “320 [258]” … appropriate for today, i think.
In light of Valentine's Day, My Own Questions, and...
Here is a healthy perspective on marriage and singleness, in light of Christ’s will for us. After all, it’s not our will, but His. It’s not because of us, but because of Him.
“For despite the fact that Christians pay lip service to the equal value of married and single people, their near-idolatry of the family over the past century has made single Christians feel like...
“I am given up by traitors,
I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody...”
– Walt Whitman
“The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
The living sleep for their time, the...”
– Walt Whitman
csleeper:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.
The development of courage is necessary to human flourishing.
“[Life] is a cautionary tale of choice.”
– Derek Cianfrance
"It's more of my fear of myself, being either Dean... →
thanks to Alyssa Sutherland for this.
e-t-u:
Your love never fails, never gives up,...
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only...”
– C. S. Lewis (via augustanddecember)
