After more than 20 years and 75 million records sold, U2 still has some surprises up their sleeves. Their newest album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, is thei...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth. By Bradley J. Birzer.
The Gospel According to Tolkien: Vision of the Kingdom in Middle Earth....
A million summers ago I was the youngest son
in a humble home with seven brothers, and it was spring
as long as I could remember.
I sat in the fields by day, gr...
Help her! – somebody – quick!
That is the rasp of the dying.
She’s lain dormant for ages, and decay lies in her bones –
Complacency seems to be her place of dea...
It was in
the red poppy
that took me down
that lane again
when I’m standing near a corner garden
and the light turns
walk Walk!
the window screams by
but I’m st...
a constellation of hopping hillocks
jetting round with buds
unveiled a prayer—
like an ineffable effusion of fir trees
the scent of a holy breath
sown among the...
the day is yet unripe
and so we clamor to our knees
to beg a little loving light
a little crack of light
to break through the prismed panes
that surround us.
s...
So, lately it seems
I travel less
on that road less travelled,
by the way
because, you see
these dreams of mine
they scatter at the sight of day.
So tell me, p...
I have always been depressed by the idea of being merely a "pretty good" person. Before I was a Christian, I identified myself only according to characteristics that I considered wholly good (and even noble) - the parts of me that appreciated things outside of myself that I thought were good, like nature or another person. That was the "real" me, but I had no way of reconciling this desire for goodness with poorer components in my character, such as selfishness.
