Jonathan Simcoe
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Jonathan Simcoe
This was probably the only thing that could have roused the dying embers of Frodo’s heart and will: an attack, an attempt to wrest his treasure from him by force.
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
The Christian faith is kaleidoscopic, and most of us are color-blind. It is multidimensional, and most of us manage to hold at most two dimensions in our heads at any one time. It is symphonic, and we can just about whistle one of the tunes.
N. T. Wright • The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
Who is going to find the survivors who have no one? Who is even going to see the survivor who isn’t on the news? Who will find these hurting people and tell them how much they are worth?
Rachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
That tracings of lampblack fallen in a beaker really knocked me down the other day. A gorgeous observation. Who knows if the phenomenon is true, but it’s enough that one can imagine it and the image astounds.
That’s the trick with Blood Meridian — the book, for me, soars not on the shock factor of the gore, which is so gruesome it’s all you can see
... See morecraigmod.com • True Names, True Walks
As I walked home down the steep slope of Fulton Street afterward, I thought: This is like a synagogue, but without Jews or Judaism. Like many things nowadays, the seculars have reinvented a religious concept to cope with the very barrenness that secularism bequeathed us.
Tablet Magazine • To Live and Die for the Network State
In many ways this is the blight of the modern world.
Only the ‘immortals’, the lingering Elves, may still if they will, wearying of the circle of the world, take ship and find the ‘straight way’, and come to the ancient or True West, and be at peace.
Christopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
We may see the revival of genuine Christian faith and discipleship, and the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in the United States.
The Roman world was full of plagues. Epidemics regularly decimated cities and regions. Though ancient people did not understand the germ theory of disease, they knew enough to flee cities, if they had the means to
journal.praxislabs.org • Love in the Time of Coronavirus
He is not so mighty yet that he is above fear; nay, doubt ever gnaws him.’
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
Doug had met another woman while visiting a friend in Tucson, and they’d fallen in love. For a while they’d sent a flurry of faxes to each other, then several days passed without Doug hearing from her.