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Legion: The Gerasene Demoniac
Fear filled him. Fear had attached itself to his very being. It was a presence, something a part of him, deep inside, usually hidden, absent from awareness. All creatures in each moment sense the Fear. Instinct usually takes over to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fear, Gerasene Demoniac, Healing, Jesus, Legion, New Testament
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The Largent and Amos Families of the American South
When in 1911 Claude Christopher Largent and Bessie Lura Amos were married, they brought to their union centuries of ancestral history that spanned the American South and Southeast, as well as early modern England and France. They descended from families … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos Family, family-history, genealogy, history, History of the South, Largent Family
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The Mysterious Love of God
As the War for Independence drew to a close in 1783, leaving so much death and destruction in its wake, it gave pause to many thinkers of the time as to the role of God in such affairs: was God’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, Love
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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
An utterance of extreme fear . . . The Psalmist begins his Psalm 32 in extreme fear. It overwhelms. It incapacitates. How has he come this far, only to be washed over, drowning, in fear. How many times have I … Continue reading
The Force of Life
“Every creature is thus the object of the Father’s tenderness, who gives it its place in the world. Even the fleeting life of the least of beings is the object of his love, and in its few seconds of existence, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Natural History
Tagged god, Great Commission, Love, Montaigne, New Testament, Plutarch, Pope Francis
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The City of God
According to Psalm 87 . . . His foundations are in the holy mountains . . . “Lord God of the High Places,” Abraham called the Lord. God dwells on high, which is a metaphor for any place that stands … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Reflections on the Psalms
Tagged City of God, god, Providence, psalms, St. Augustine
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Dr. Seuss and Racism
In 2017, an elementary school librarian in Massachusetts criticized a gift of Dr. Seuss books from then First Lady Melania Trump as being “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.” A school district in Virginia claimed that “Research in … Continue reading
What Higher Education Administrators do not Understand about Budget Cuts and Furloughs
The poet Walt Whitman, visiting army hospitals along the Potomac River in 1862, came upon “a heap of amputated feet, legs, arms, hands, &c., a full load for a one-horse cart,” hospital waste of soldiers of the Army of the … Continue reading
Anglicans on the Frontier
ANGLICANS ON THE FRONTIER: THE GREAT COMMISSION AND THE EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA[1] Russell M. Lawson Captain John Smith was arguably the greatest of the English explorers, discoverers, and colonists of America. He was as well the first … Continue reading
Reflections on the Psalms
My new Kindle ebook, God is Love: Reflections on the Psalms, is the product of years of reflection on the 150 Psalms of the Old Testament. The book is an ecumenical, spiritual, meditative, historical reflection on the Psalms of David. … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, god, Love, Old Testament, psalms
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The American Plutarch 