The Bills Mafia holds to certain traditions. For example the folding table ritual and spraying ‘Pinto Ron’ with ketchup & mustard. These rituals might seem impersonal, painful, unnecessary, and/or wrong to outsiders, but devoted Bills fans are thrilled and galvanized by these customs! Well… when it comes to the week of unleavened bread (Exodus 13:3-10), […]
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” “When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls […]
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” – G.K. Chesterton “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also […]
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded […]
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.” – Herman Melville [Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings] “Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” ― Melville Herman (this makes me think of Aslan …and The Count […]
The prophet Isaiah says, “God gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might He increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run […]
“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.” – CS Lewis “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” – CS Lewis “Can a mortal ask questions […]
God relayed a message through the prophet Isaiah, saying, “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.” If you asked the first century conservative religious community, “Do y’all do this?” They would say, “YES!” If you […]
During my morning meeting with The Boss – The Boss said, “Behold, all you who kindle a fire… walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have kindled! This you have from My hand: you shall lie down in torment.” This made me think of the scene in The Silver […]
Alan Jacobs wrote a book entitled “How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds.” Here are some excerpts… “T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When there is so much to be known, when there are so […]