(Nota Bene—Click on the links scattered throughout this article to learn more about the history of books, the creation of medieval manuscripts, and the illumination process! Citations also linked.) In a world inundated with mass-market books, junk mail, magazines, and paperwork, it can be difficult to imagine a time before printing technology. Before the 15th …
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Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who …
“He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your …
IT is not news to anyone that we live in an age of busyness. Few sacred times or spaces remain uninvaded by the ding of a text message, the buzz of a notification, the demands of school or work. It is increasingly difficult to find time to get far enough away from the imperious demands …
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Dr. Brett Vaden / August 21, 2019 We are called together. That is what convocation means: to be called together. But who calls us? Not me or any person up here. This morning, and this year, our Great Teacher, Jesus the Son of God, he calls us. With the Father and the Holy Spirit. But …