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A Diamond in the Rough

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,the oil of gladness instead of mourning,the garment of praise instead o...

C.S. Lewis
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There is no such thing as normal

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

The war creates no absolutely new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been l...

Martin Luther
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How to become a theologian

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

For as soon as God’s word takes root and grows in you, the devil will harry you, and will make a real doctor of you, and by his assaults will teach you to...

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They Were Fishermen

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ...

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On Personhood and Love

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Professor Haldane himself illustrates the present state of mind very well. He thinks that if one were inventing a language for ‘sinless beings who loved t...

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Solemn Pleasure of the Imagination

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

I am not sure that anyone has satisfactorily explained the keen, lasting, and solemn pleasure which such stories can give. Jung, who went furthest, seems to me ...

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The Prison of the Present Moment

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of ‘escape’. I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very ...

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How to Frighten A Child

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

Those who say that children must not be frightened may mean two things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give the child those haunting, ...

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Green Pastures and Still Waters

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

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The Spiritual Discipline of Fairy Tales

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Edwin Smith / 0 Comment

I do not mean that school stories for boys and girls ought not to be written. I am only saying that they are far more liable to become ‘fantasies’ i...

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