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Quotable: Marilynne Robinson – Gilead, take 2

Brian Harris — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:00:21 +0000

Last week we looked at some quotes from Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer prize winning novel Gilead. The book is a fictional series of reflections by dying clergyman, John Ames, to his seven year old son. It is filled with wisdom, and is a celebration of life. Here are some more reflections from the book… I think […]

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Quotable: Marilynne Robinson – Gilead

Brian Harris — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:00:56 +0000

American novelist Marilynne Robinson (1943- ) won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize (for fiction) with her novel Gilead. It is the fictional autobiography of aging Congregationalist minister John Ames, who, aware that his serious heart condition means his death is imminent, wants to leave a memoir for his seven year old son to remember him by. […]

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Quotable: With Frederick Buechner – Take 2

Brian Harris — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:00:53 +0000

This is a second take on Frederick Buechner (1926-), an ordained Presbyterian minister, who is a notable novelist, preacher and theologian. I recently read one of his memoirs, Telling Secrets, and it led me to track down some insights from his thirty plus published works. His novel, Godric, was a 1981 finalist for the Pulitzer prize. You […]

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Quotable: With Frederick Buechner

Brian Harris — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 22:00:12 +0000

Frederick Buechner (1926-), an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a notable novelist, preacher and theologian. I’m currently enjoying reading one of his memoirs, Telling Secrets, and it has led me to track down some insights from his thirty plus published works. His novel, Godric, was a 1981 finalist for the Pulitzer prize. You might well be aware of […]

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Quotable: For the New Year…

Brian Harris — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:00:22 +0000

With a new year almost upon us, I thought it appropriate to cite a few relevant quotes and thoughts that might provide some direction… But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me […]

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Quotable and Alpha and Omega

Brian Harris — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:00:27 +0000

Those who have been following this blog will know that in the lead up to Christmas, we have been looking at some questions that Jesus asked – having noted that he asked an awful lot of questions – often in reply to questions he had been asked. So here are the two questions for the […]

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Quotable: Questions Jesus Asked – Take 2

Brian Harris — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:00:08 +0000

A piece of unverified Bible trivia I came across is that Jesus asks 307 questions in the Bible. True, some of the questions appear several times, being repeated in the different gospels, so the number of distinctly different questions is less – but you still can’t get away from the fact that Jesus asked lots […]

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Quotable: Questions Jesus Asked

Brian Harris — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 22:00:34 +0000

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Quotable – For Christmas

Brian Harris — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:00:40 +0000

With the Christmas season upon us, I thought I’d look at some Christmas quotes from notable figures. A thousand times in history a baby has become a king, but only once in history did a King become a baby. Anon Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come […]

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Quotable: Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday – Take 2

Brian Harris — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:00:38 +0000

Last week we looked at some of the notable quotes with which Rachel Held Evans starts different chapters of her 2015 book Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church. This week we look at some of her own insights from the book, which as the title suggests, explores her journey of loving, leaving and […]

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