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Stories Written in Blood

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https://mocicc.org/agricultura/231kordji Not long ago my wife, Amy, posted a picture of my night stand on her blog.

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https://guelph-real-estate.ca/wwtqe67zl4j Tim Keller’s The Reason for God.

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https://danivoiceovers.com/52ivjp7 Abraham Heschel’s God in Search of Man.

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https://lpgventures.com/ldpnvaw4bc C.S. Lewis’s Quotables.

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Discount Tramadol Online An anonymous blogger saw this picture and posed this question directly to me (and indirectly to all Christians):

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Tramadol Online By Cod My first mental response was of course immature, arrogant, condescending, and reactionary:

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https://www.brigantesenglishwalks.com/wdjks6x You name a classic or contemporary author, and I’ll bet I have studied him or her.  Shakespeare.  Check.  O’ Connor.  Check.  Camus.  Check.  Kerouac.  Check.

Purchasing Tramadol Overnight But later, after I had calmed down, I sat down to think a bit about that anonymous person’s question.  It’s an appropriate question, really.  And it was probably not meant to stir up conflict. But conversation.

https://www.mreavoice.org/n0zjko1bc So after some reflection, this is how I responded to this blogger.

https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/z4cu45aznm0 Simply put: I’m interested in reading any story that is written in blood.

Tramadol Bula Anvisa Take East of Eden by John Steinbeck, for example. Now that’s a book written in blood. Who of us hasn’t felt an acute sense of displacement? It’s not that we are living in the wrong place; just the wrong way. Or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.  I’ve got a son now and the thought of dying for Silas – not a iota of fear. But the thought of Silas having to live beyond my dying love – nothing but fear.

https://alldayelectrician.com/5kgqtf4d Any story then that struggles with what it means to be human, what it means to walk upright in a bent world, what it means to live within tensions and questions and doubts – that’s a story I want to read and participate in because it is written in the author’s blood. Whether it is written by a Christian. Or agnostic. Or atheist. Or Buddhist. Or Muslim.  Because all truth is God’s truth.  And part of the theology of common grace includes the animating belief that when we tell the truth about our experience of being human, regardless of our “worldview” or religious belief system, somehow, in some mysterious way, a “gleam of the evengelium”, as J.R.R. Tolkien argued, shines through.

J.R.R. Tolkein, smoking his famous pipe.

https://guelph-real-estate.ca/deiw16pm8 So I pose this contagion of questions for you to ponder – Christian or not:

https://lpgventures.com/nbp7xvidrww What books have you read that are written in blood?

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https://www.elevators.com/ge4arakh No doubt, I’m always looking for a good read. And by good, I mean a story where the author simply has the courage as Fredrick Buechner puts it,  to “open a vein.”