05.14.12

How Big Is Sam?

After a few practice sessions with his grandparents last week, he’s figured it out.

(Sometimes he gets distracted, though.)

04.21.12

Eastertide

Easter Sunday may have come and gone, but we’re still celebrating Eastertide around here. After all, tomorrow is only the Third Sunday of Easter and there are seven!

We celebrated Easter by joining services with the church that now hosts us in their beautiful old labyrinthine building each week. The little ones sang “Jesus Paid It All” (they’d been practicing for weeks!), [...]

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04.16.12

Consuming The Classics

Excited to be reading some great books with my very favorite English professor in the coming weeks, thanks to The Gospel Coalition’s “Commending the Classics” series! Here’s Dr. Ryken’s introduction to the first book (Albert Camus’ The Stranger), along with his post on Part 1, Chapter 1.

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04.06.12

It Is A Good Friday

Hence is’t, that I am carried towards the West
This day, when my soul’s form bends toward the East.
There I should see a Sun, by rising set,
And by that setting endless day beget;
But that Christ on this Cross, did rise and fall,
Sin had eternally benighted all.

– from Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, by John Donne

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03.20.12

A Spring Swing

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.” — Henry Van Dyke

Most years I resent the first day of spring, as it only reminds me of just how far away spring actually feels. Not so this year! Today was a balmy, blue-skyed vernal equinox if ever there was one, and when Daniel got home [...]

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