In 1951, a book by an unknown writer hit the shelves of bookstores throughout the United States. That book started off with the line, “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my…
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Posts from May 2021
If you stop for just a moment and close your eyes, you might find yourself hearing things that you didn’t initially realize were there. Maybe it’s a song bird in the background. Maybe it’s how loud that bass line sounds when you listen to it on those speakers or head phones. Maybe it’s being able…
In the short story “Silver Blaze” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, notices something that didn’t happen. In the story, a Scotland Yard inspector is asking for what Holmes noticed about the evidence in a given case. Holmes replies, “the curious incident of the dog.” The inspector, probably rummaging…
There’s a great book out there called “I Once Was Lost” by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp. In this book, the two authors describe different thresholds or stages of spirituality. The book itself is concerned with the movement that a non-Christian experiences as they move closer to becoming a Christian, but I wonder if it…