You Write Sentences
Charles D’Ambrosio: I feel like a good personal essay captures the nap and texture of the mind thinking, so I know I’m all over every piece I write, and in tha...
Sanctification in Time
That sanctification is a relationship with God that occurs in time. That means I experience forgiveness in time, and I experience that cleansing in time. I can...
Rules and Writing
When I make first contact with my students, I tell them that there are no rules anymore because they never existed in the first place, but there are guidelines...
Welcome to TheAbellSix
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Even the dream of soundly defeating an atheist
Even the dream of soundly defeating an atheist college professor in a debate about the existence of God isn’t rich enough. Marriage, children, and evangelism are ...
Then Shaphan the secretary told the king
Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.—2 Kings 22:10 — This is...
Borrow was a walker of awesome stamina...
[George] Borrow was a walker of awesome stamina and a linguist of almost inconceivable talent, who is said to have been able to speak twelve languages by the time...
It is the easiest thing in the world to work all the time
It is the easiest thing in the world to work all the time, compared to the incredible difficulty of spending one hour or one day of rest in a proper way.—Eu...
I understand myself
I understand myself as part of a Christian narrative. Whatever I experience, I understand it as part of that story. My sister’s death from cancer made sense to me...