Weary Pilgrim in Whom Do you Trust—
“….it is pain that penetrates through despair and stimulates a new beginning— a journey to God that becomes a life of peace.” Eugene Peterson “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you…
Dorothy L. Sayers on the Christian Faith
Do you ever wonder what people would think about you if they really knew you, not the life you let them see, but the parts underneath, hidden away, or maybe whitewashed? Then I recommend spending some time reading about this remarkable and imperfect Christian woman. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was…
Resting in Hope
The seed is in the ground. Now may we rest in hope While darkness does its work. Wendell Berry—from A Timbered Choir
God’s Transforming Love
“…only he who loves can sing.” St. Augustine Augustine believed that we could know ourselves only if we know God just as we could not know God without knowing ourselves. And that to know a thing we must some way come to love it. There is…
Shaping our Preferences
“For literary judgement, we need to be acutely aware of two things at once: of ‘what we like’ and of ‘what we ought to like’. Few people are honest enough to know either. The first means knowing what we really feel: very few know that. The second involves understanding our…
Authority and Freedom
“Where authority is, freedom is; and where authority is lost , freedom is lost. This holds good for all kinds of authority. Without adults who demand mature behavior, the child is not free to grow up; without teachers to set standards of excellence, the scholar is not free to excel;…
To Starve a Child
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. Mythology, the voyages through Scylla and Charybdis, down rabbit holes, the turbulent logic of the biblical, the ‘gardens…
Ken Myers—Mars Hill Audio
Billie Georgia Conference—October 19-20, 2018 speaker — Ken Myers Author of All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes and the host and producer of Mars Hill Audio Journal “The Risks of Repudiating Reality: Timely Lessons from C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man” Lecture 1–The Clean Sea Breeze of the…
Christianity and Culture—Ken Myers
“The conventional beliefs and practices of contemporary culture present a range of challenges to Christians striving to be faithful to their Lord. Some of these challenges are obvious, even if knowing how to meet them is perplexing. Others are concealed and become apparent only with the discipline of discerning and…
Male and Female
We live in a disordered, obsessive culture that values being true to self and finding significant worth in “whatever floats your boat.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the fluidity of sexuality and the choice to express that sexuality in whatever form or with whomever one pleases. Prior to…