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Blest with that loveliest of all adorning
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: November 7, 2009
From the Preface by the Writer in The War Romance of the Salvation Army, by Grace Livingston Hill, c 1919, J. T. Lippincot Company (online here):
After the privilege of close association with them for some time I have come to feel that the most noticeable and lovely thing about the girls is the way they wear their womanhood, [...]
Book note: The War Romance of the Salvation Army, by Grace Livingston Hill
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: November 7, 2009
Yesterday, while shifting books around to freshen up the display at the check-out counter, I decided I needed a mass market Christian novel to round things out. So over I tootled to that section, and dug around – and picked out a book by Grace Livingston Hill, who still sells well decades after her death. But… After [...]
God’s questions
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: November 7, 2009
This winsome post by Angie Smith (House of Mercy, at Bring the Rain, Nov. 1, 2009) begins:
I have long been fascinated by the questions that the Lord asks in the Bible. It started when I was reading through Genesis (one of my favorite books of the Bible, seriously) and I came to the part where [...]
7 Quick Takes Friday: Nov. 6, 2009
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: November 6, 2009
1. What do you do when you accidentally don’t get all the pockets emptied in a load of laundry and wind up with bits of soggy facial tissue all over everything? Seriously, what works? This week my husband and I both have the punies (as we say around here when you’re sick, but not sick enough [...]
7 Quick Takes Friday
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: October 30, 2009
1. The first week of August, the local newspaper called my husband to see if it was true that there was a woman who worked evenings at our gas station cum bookstore who only wore dresses or skirts. Having that confirmed, they told him that they were a bit busy just then, but would it [...]
Almost banning “Christmas” tree ornaments
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: October 14, 2009
It seems there was a fight this year to include Christmas themed ornaments on this year’s National Christmas Tree. No, really. Children in Arizona were told they could not use religious themes on their ornaments for the tree in Washington D.C. - but one mother didn’t settle for that and got legal help so her child could [...]
More on post-dredge living
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 28, 2009
It occurs to me that my previous post might leave you with a not quite accurate picture of this part of town, because, as it happens, dredge piles don’t stay dredge piles, at least they don’t around here.
I’m not sure how long ago this part of the valley was churned up in a quest for [...]
Sometimes a river…
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 28, 2009
… can disappear from sight for a while.
No, really.
More on Popo Agie here.
In the town where I live, there was (I am told) a not-entirely-successful effort years ago to divert one of the small rivers that runs through it.
At any rate, water (supposedly from the poorly diverted river) runs through huge deposits of gravel left behind by gold dredges, [...]
Of plays and principles, heroes and governments
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 26, 2009
The following is reprinted with the permission of the Alabama Policy Institute, which published it September 22, 2009.
Virtue and Courage – What America Could Use Now
by Gary Palmer
Ordinarily, when a 21 year-old man thinks about what he will do with the rest of his life, he thinks in terms of years. But the tall, handsome, [...]
Second Pulpit Freedom Sunday this Sunday
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 24, 2009
More than 80 pastors nationwide have signed on for this year’s Pulpit Freedom Sunday. The Alliance Defense Fund is standing by to provide legal help to any pastor targeted for exercising his First Amendment rights.
To be clear: The Alliance Defense Fund’s Pulpit Initiative: What It Is – What It’s Not. (pdf)
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