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Archive: March 2014

Purifying Prayer and Becoming Ministers of Hope

Yet my encounter with God awakens my conscience in such a way that it no longer aims at self-justification and is no longer a mere reflection of me and those of my contemporaries who shape my thinking, but it becomes a capacity for listening to the...

What We’ve Been Doing

Snow fell but there were still crocuses blooming in the cold. There was snow, but we also had a couple of nice days last week. The kids went outside barefoot. Even Lucia. She was in heaven. Outside, toddling around, on her own two feet. There were...

On Human Freedom: Why Utopia is impossible

This is why Marx is wrong and why neither Marxism nor any ideology that promises to give us a perfect world will succeed. First of all, we must acknowledge that incremental progress is possible only in the material sphere. Here, amid our growing...

Oatmeal Whole Wheat

My first sourdough starter success. Oatmeal whole wheat with a hint of maple syrup. This is bread to make when you have leftover oatmeal from breakfast, which I did. The crust is lovely, thick and crunchy, the crumb is soft and airy. I am so, so...

Now We Are Six– Sophie’s Birthday

It still feels weird to me to have the present opening in the morning and the cake and candles at night. Birthday presents and birthday cake seem so necessarily to belong together that to do one without the other makes both seem uncomfortably...

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