That’s a lot to spend for…

I guess losing to Ohio State just got a bit more expensive…

Well said, dear

Good thoughts from my better half as she writes about GK Chesterton and The Everlasting Man:

I’m interested in the approach by folks like Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and Dorothy Sayers to 19th-century Protestant Liberalism. It’s just so different from the approach of American Fundamentalism or Evangelicalism (though Lewis especially is almost irrationally popular with American Evangelicals). It’s like the Liberals of the 19th century started holding up banners and shouting, “Materialism! Materialism!” They figured they could kill miracles like the parting of the Red Sea or Resurrection with all their commotion.

Then the Fundamentalists tried to make equal amounts of commotion on the other end of the spectrum, shouting and waving banners: “Biblical inerrancy! Biblical inerrancy!” (Which they shouted even louder – and plugged their ears – when earnest questioners wondered about differences in the Synoptics.)

And some odd folks who read too much poetry and had had periods of deep-rooted agnosticism in their personal histories stepped out of the conservative-liberal spectrum. (Note that they didn’t just step into the middle.)

And they didn’t wave banners. In sort of St. Francis of Assisi moments, they looked closely at creation and said, “Look. Miracles.” They looked at the manger and the cross and the empty tomb and said, “Look. It’s so beautiful.”

You can read the rest of Julie’s post here.