“There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.” Some of life’s best moments of [im]perfection are simply like this. Friendship and food are never about one versus the other. Instead, in the right mix, the communing of friends and the blending of...
Wang Mian lived as a hermit in Kuaiji Mountain, and never disclosed his real name. When later he fell ill and died, his neighbours there collected some money and buried him at the foot of the mountain. During the same year, Old Qin died of old age in his home. Curiously enough, write...
It’s not that I don’t have them now, I do have concerns, but the desire is what I lack, I don’t feel motivated, nor do I consider that what I have to say is vital for my readers, or I’m simply not interested in sharing my predilections for judging them not important to o...
Jesus isn’t simply paying us a compliment. This is a call to action. Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 5:15-16. He said, “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in ...
The Atsuta Shrine is familiarly known as Atsuta-Sama (Venerable Atsuta) or simply as Miya (the Shrine) [more details]. In Japanese: 熱田神宮Awa Old province, which grosso modo corresponded to prefecture of Tokushima. It was also called Ashû. In Japanese: 阿波...
Catherine’s Newman Center and become a wandering religious hermit in the Wasatch to maintain his fitness. Sigh. Stupid adult and organizational responsibilities.Compared to the other Caminos, the Primitivo has comparatively little road walking. This is good because, damn, that gets boring and it ...
I had no idea of a plot or any characters beyond the opening scene with Abigail and Hector. The story simply emerged as I began writing. When I write, I often feel like I’m just following my characters around in a parallel universe or watching them in something like an old-time newsre...
And on the one hand, that sentiment is pretty common in churches and Christianity writ large, and it’s not a wholly bad thing: when you grow as a person, you want to grow better not worse. You want to be good at crafts not good at hoarding craft supplies, for example. But on ...
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he enjoyed the birthstories of Bodhisattva and the parables of the master with their moral applications, but when he retired in the evening or was otherwise left to his own thoughts he began to ponder on the uselessness of the hermit’s life and longed to return to the world with its tem...