I went out to buy a skirt by Jennifer at Conversion Diary. I am in complete agreement with Ms. Jennifer: shopping is the trauma.
Pseudogamy 101: We engage in a convoluted and expensive pretense, complete with band and wedding cake and ring and honeymoon in Cancun, when all along we are saying, in part, “I am for myself, and for this person here only insofar as this person is for me,” rather than, “I now belong to my spouse, and in my belonging to my spouse I will become myself, because it is only in giving that we receive, and only in binding ourselves to the gift that we are set free.”
Pseudogamy 102. On Edmund Spencer’s Epithalmion: “In the bed where he and his bride make love, we are made to understand that something may happen for which all the cosmos, all that grand wild extravagant order of stars and planets and night and day, is but the preparation or the stage, and in comparison with which all the cosmos that is not human is but dust. They may beget a child. Indeed they pray that it be so.”
Lunch Bag Art: a lunch bag a day, artistically rendered.
Warning! Eating books could seriously damage your health! (Duh!)
The Original Octamom: Is Eight Enough? “I don’t have the answers to all things reproduction. I do think we need to quit thinking in terms of ‘what can I handle’ and think instead ‘how can I be stretched.’ We tend to make decisions in this arena based in fear, not in faith…and then that is no real decision based in the Lord at all.”
The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah by Jack Cashill in The American Thinker.
Don’t Miss the Joy by Matt Anderson in WORLD Magazine. “The Psalmist had it right. Children are a reward and a joy, not a “carbon footprint” to be avoided.”
A Century of Thursdays: Allen Barra on G.K.Chesterton in The Wall Street Journal: GKC “would be amused to find that he has served as an icon to writers as diverse as William F. Buckley Jr., Garry Wills, C.S. Lewis and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman.”
How Fiction can Powerfully Inform the Practical Application of Truth, Part Two” or “The Post I Do Not Want to Write by Jeanne Damoff at The Master’s Artist: “God is good in what He forbids. That is what the church should be saying. That is what I should be saying. But apparently we don’t believe it.”
My response to Ms. Damoff’s thoughts on Perelandra and the Christian life.
What Do Stephen King and Jerry Jenkins Have in Common? An interview by Jessica Strawser in Writer’s Digest.
My Ten Dollars by BIlly Coffey, the source of my $10 Challenge. “I had kept the ten dollar bill in my pocket for a week or so, set apart from the gas and grocery money for one purpose only—I was going to bless someone with it. I was going to lighten a load, brighten a face, and do my part to spread some Christmas cheer.”