Day: April 1, 2011

The Bakery Conversation

I got sandwiched in a conversation on my Saturday morning bakery run. In the back of the Edgerton Bakery, rolls and loaves of fresh bread

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Cause and Effect

Isn’t everything connected? Aren’t there laws of cause and effect? If we don’t live in a causal world, why do we bother to teach and

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The Selfsame One

Question 52. What comfort is it to thee that “Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead”? Answer: That in all my

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The Luminous I

If you should pick up Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind, I suggest that you begin at the end. This is not simply because Robinson writes

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For Calvinists Young and Old

James K.A. Smith forays into the now-popular epistolary genre with the compact and accessible Letters to a Young Calvinist. It is timely, as Smith notes

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Stuff My Uncle Told Me

More than a year ago already, my uncle Rodney died of cancer. He never had a family of his own, living with his parents until

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