The fruit of sin is thorns—spiny, prickly, cutting thorns. I emphasize the point of the thorns to suggest a point you may have never considered: if the fruit of sin is thorns, isn’t the thorny crown o...
The friction point of Christian eschatology, and of Christian pastoral care, was the fate of the non valdes—of the non valde mali and the non valde boni: the not altogether bad and the not altogether...
The four countries with the highest rates of living alone are Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark, where roughly 40 to 45 percent of all households have just one person. By investing in each other’s...
The forest has been growing for hundreds of years. Each time a child is born, a tree is planted. You could see from his tree how old a person was. The tall and thick tree trunks, which gave the most s...
The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.
The first time I saw Reverend Shuttlesworth, for example, he came strolling across the parking lot of the motel where I was staying, his hat perched precariously between the back of his skull and the...
The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.
The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down t...
That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.
Stealers, keepers.
Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
She needed a distraction. Was that your mother? The splashing stopped. Are you going to converse while I bathe? Why not? Feels rather unseemly. She laughed, picturing him sitting there, shocked and in...
Saxton shifted exhausted eyes over. Must we do this?What happened --I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I won't have to worry about being jumped like a felon again.Blay frowned. He and I...
Right, Sadie said. And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.
Right now, me getting killed would be redundant....You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late....Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.
Richard wanted to ask why God had allowed the war to happen in the first place. Yet their faith moved him. If God could make them care so genuinely, God was a worthy concept.
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would wri...
Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.
Residual biosystems glitches, they said, and told me it’d fade with time. I believed them, because in the end almost everything does.
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