Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Faith AND life

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      "These half-dozen questions effectively synthesized what the Tudor regime had been pursuing piecemeal, as the opportunity arose, ...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

The one lost sheep, the righteous one, who goes astray non-iniquitously

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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant, | for I do not forget thy commandments. Ps 119:176 RSV, italics mine. All we like sh...
Friday, July 24, 2026

I eat and drink the price of my redemption

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"Your only Son 'in whom are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge' (Col. 2:3) had 'redeemed me by his blood' (Rev. ...
Monday, July 20, 2026

"when man and woman possess their home, two minds, | two hearts that work as one"

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"'may the good gods give you all your heart desires: | husband, and house, and lasting harmony too. | No finer, greater gift in the...
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"That distant land"

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      Andy Catlett's "remembering and his thoughts have carried him by now far outside of the matter of fact of this world's pr...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

"'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.'"

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"[Robert] Persons was still in hiding at Stonor; he sent his servant to see how Campion was looking, and the man brought back word that...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Is there more to this than a leyenda negra inglesa?

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"The last thing [King Philip of Spain] wanted was to go to war, particularly with the English, whose formidable spirit he knew from the...