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A New Book Reflection: “In the Spirit of Happiness” (Part 2: First Fervor to True Fervor)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Here in my second post about the book In the Spirit of Happiness by the Monks of New Skete, I want to focus my comments and reflections on Chapter 2, “First Fer...

Book Review/Spirituality

A New Book-Reflection: “In the Spirit of Happiness”–(Part 1: Monks and the Matrix)

Posted on December 3, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

For the month of December, I thought I would take the time to write a few posts that focus on a book I read probably over 25 years ago that not only shaped much...

Literature and Poetry/Music/Pop Culture/Social and Cultural Issues/Spirituality

Ken Medema, Frank Schaeffer, and Some Thoughts I Had About, You Know, Just Some Things

Posted on June 19, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this video on YouTube in which Frank Schaeffer was talking with Ken Medema back in 2016 at the Wild Goose Festival, ess...

Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 5-7)

Posted on March 27, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

In my previous two posts, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the li...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 3 and 4)

Posted on March 25, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

In my previous post, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to...

Biblical Studies/Literature and Poetry/Spirituality/T.S. Eliot

A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 1 and 2)

Posted on March 24, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Back in 1991, I graduated college with a major in English Literature, and I read and wrote quite a bit of poetry. In particular, after college I got immensely i...

Church History/Spirituality

Let’s Start a Series on the Early Church Fathers! (Introduction)

Posted on February 5, 2022 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

Having grown up within Evangelicalism, even though my family went regularly to church and even though I went to a Christian high school, I really knew nothing a...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Spirituality

“Miracles” by Craig Keener: A Book Review (and some personal reflections)

Posted on December 18, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 8 Comments

If you are a Christian like me, chances are that your take on the idea of “miracles” is similar to mine. Intellectually, you believe that Jesus really did heal ...

Book Review/Spirituality

Some Self-Reflection from “On the Spectrum”–a new book by Daniel Bowman Jr about being an autistic adult

Posted on September 30, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Earlier this month, someone I follow on social media posted a short endorsement of Daniel Bowman Jr’s book, On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neu...

Social and Cultural Issues/Spirituality

An Admittedly Odd Easter Reflection: Easter and Peter…and the Politics of Ear-Chopping

Posted on April 3, 2021 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 8 Comments

On Good Friday, Major League Baseball announced they were moving the All-Star game this year away from Atlanta to boycott Georgia and to protest over Georgia’s ...

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