<p>Along this journey from displaced to finally dwelling with God we find a group of fifteen psalms known as the Psalms of Ascent. These psalms (120-134) are all about getting back home they are about dwelling with God. These psalms hold an important place within the story of God’s redemption. </p>
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The Ecclesiastical History Of The English People by the Venerable Bede. I am writing a book on English spirituality, to be titled The English Soul, and Bede will be the subject of the first chapter, to be followed by chapters on John Wycliffe, John Bunyan, John Henry Newman and others. I am also reading W. J. Loftie’s The Colour Of London because I have been asked to write about, well, the colours of London.
…would you take to a desert island?
I would take The Imitation Of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. It had a profound impression on me as an adolescent, but I have not read it since. It would be a pleasure to re-experience my first sensations and perhaps also furnish me with more memories of my past life.
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I’ve read and re-read Cal Thomas’s July 11 column. It seems Thomas has swallowed a specious and a spurious fantasy: America was founded as a Christian nation, and thus manifested American exceptionalism.
I’m a Christian believer and a minister, who found Thomas’s anemic, westernized, weak-kneed pity party for Christianity an affront, which required a rebuttal.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado baker who refused to prepare a cake for a same-sex ceremony was justified based on his religious beliefs. Whereas, the same august body remanded a similar case back to the Washington State Supreme Court. It involved Barronelle Stutzman, a flower shop owner, who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex couple’s ceremony.