Comments on the “Paradiso”

I will begin by saying that I do not have any great insight to provide into the Paradiso. In all honestly, so much has been said on Dante's The Divine Comedy that not much more can be said. However, as I was reading it I found a few things interesting in the text and I thought …

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Repost: Review – Ten Ways to Kill a Pastor

A repost from another blog I write for. Perhaps you do not recognize yourself doing it. Perhaps you do not acknowledge the effects. Perhaps you think you are alone, without hope. Rev. Thoma’s Ten Ways to Kill a Pastor highlights various ways congregations, laypeople, other ministers, and friends can slowly, but surely, destroy their pastor, or any …

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Review – Creation: Basics & Beyond

Publisher: The Institute for Creation Research Authors: Morris III, Morris, Lisle, Johnson, Jeanson, Guliuzza, Tomkins, Hebert, Shwerwin, and Thomas. The Institute for Creation Research's book Creation: Basics & Beyond provides, as the cover indicates, an in-depth look at "science, origins, and evolution." More explicitly, this book explains in detail the relevancy of Genesis in regard to science, history, morality, …

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Update on My Book

This is coming a little bit late, but I think that it is worth a post: I am done with the draft of my book! This is not like the "first" draft, but it is the first, all-in-one-place draft. Technically I still have a genealogy to create, an index to figure out, and a couple …

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Hymns: What a Friend we have in Jesus

Joseph Medlicott Scriven was in 1819 born to John and Jane Scriven of Banbridge, Ireland. Joseph had a rather turbulent life even from a young age. He had wanted to serve in the military, but his poor health led to him studying at Trinity College, which he graduated from in 1842. A year later, his fiancée drowned …

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