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So I've decided that tomorrow's going to be my marathon day for finishing most of the Translating Scripture layouts. When I get done there'll be only two chapters and one or two appendices left. We're getting close. :) I started using OmniOutliner tonight to keep track of ...

While walking through the Wilkinson Center today on my way to print up some stuff, I caught sight of tables and tables of books in the Garden Court. My wallet is thin as it is, but I couldn't help myself. And I'm glad I did: for $12, I ...

Found this Rousseau quote in my planner: "The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Mmm, I love quotes like this! I've got homework to do right now but sometime later I'll talk about imagination and creativity. [tags]imagination, creativity[/tags]

Last night I was talking with some friends about C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton, and on my walk home I realized that books are really good friends. No matter what happens as far as my dating life goes (to use a rather specific example), books will always ...

If you go to ChristianAudio.com and click on the big orange button labeled "Free Download," you can get a nice audiobook of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. (It's five MP3s of about 35 megs each.) [tags]audiobooks, G.K. Chesterton[/tags]

Lately I've started marking books again, and I'm finding that it's very useful for remembering good parts that I want to quote in this blog. :) Beyond that, it makes me read more actively -- rather than just skimming over the surface, I have to grapple with the text, ...

I've been reading the "Finding Ourselves in Our Tradition" chapter in Arthur Henry King's Arm the Children, and these two paragraphs really struck me: History happens forward, but we are allowed to go back. We live forward, but we are allowed to return in our minds. And the further ...

I just read C.S. Lewis's essays "Membership" and "The Inner Ring" for today's CSL Society meeting. In the former, Lewis says that "We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." I couldn't agree more -- ...

At the Quote Garden, I found these two quotes which I rather like: "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." ~André Gide "A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for." ~John ...

This quote from C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves has been running through my mind a lot lately: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give ...