And here is the epic conclusion to my sleep-talking adventures from graduate school. (Click here for installments 1, 2, and 3.)
I'm sure I still talk in my sleep, but probably not as much as back in the day. During the time my wife took these notes, I was reading assigned theology all day every day, staying up late into the night, and hating to get out of bed. At any rate, t...
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Installment 3 of 4 in this series of transcripts of my sleep-talking adventures from the late 90s. No, I cannot explain most of these.
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Something about a surgeon
Getting ready to cut something out of someone
[who?]
Part of the time it was me.
Part of the time it was some guy I didn’t know.
[Is he a good surgeon?]
Yes.
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Some motivational speaker.
He’...
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Transcript 2 of 4 in the annals of the sleep-talkin' theologian. These notes date from about 1997. My long-suffering wife, a morning person, asks me questions like "when do you want to wake up?" and "what are you dreaming about?" Still asleep, I answer her questions. Sometimes she interjects ideas into my dreams, and I accept them. She's especially fond of lobbing kittens in.
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There's a man in England, Adam Lennard, who talks in his sleep. He speaks very clearly, says truly bizarre things, and is recorded by his wife's voice-activated digital recorder. His wife has begun blogging his nightly oracles, and their blog is suddenly the Next Big Thing: millions of readers, interviews on talk shows, merchandise, the whole viral internet treatment. Check out...
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Who, I ask you, wouldn't enjoy taking a walk around the Oxford countryside with C.S. Lewis? Surely, no matter what you wanted to talk about, that many-sided man, that generous soul and omnivorous reader would be able to engage you in illuminating conversation. Surely.
But no. In second volume of The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis (Books, broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949)...
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A wonderful poem to ponder today on Epiphany:
The Journey of the Magi
“A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The was deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.”
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on...
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January 2, 2010, was an important date: If you write it in mm/dd/yyyy format, it's 01/02/2010, which is the same sequence of numbers forwards or backwards: 01022010. A numerical palindrome.
Who would notice something like this, or care? Plenty of people found it interesting. Because plenty of people walk among us, turning word and number sequences backwards in their minds ju...
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This wedding homily was delivered at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Oceanside, CA on June 26, 2009. Jane and Alex were students of mine in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University and I had the privilege of performing, along with Jane’s father, their wedding this summer. A beautiful day with a wonderful couple.
Jane and Alex, wedding advice often comes from bot...
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I wrote the following last month for Biola University's weekly newspaper The Chimes. Perhaps it has something to say to readers of Scriptorium as well:
Anyone who knows me knows that I like monks. Actually, I really like monks. I know a few monks (and nuns) personally and I like them as people but that’s not why I like monks. I think monks and nuns are cool because of the ...
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Yesterday I was asked about the value of Creeds like those of Nicaea.
My interlocutor was insistent, "What if I love Jesus? What is the point of a Creed? Doesn't it get in the way of my love for the Lord?"
The problem with this idea is that even in daily life it is easy to love the "wrong" person. Too often I build up a Fantasy Hope and then love not the wife I actually ...
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Last weekend Joe Carter, the founder of Evangelical Outpost and now the web editor of First Things, put together a group blog called Evangel.
Justin Taylor almost immediately declared it the best group blog in evangelicalism. And in its first week of existence it has logged 94 posts, 497 comments, over 30,000 visits, and a lot of linkage and buzz.
First Things is a vene...
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I write this while sitting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, waiting for my flight back to Los Angeles after officiating at the wedding of and celebrating with Kat and Peter van Elswyk. What a great day, graced by an unseasonably early dusting of Minnesota snow. Having known Kat and Peter for just over four years, I’m only a little tempted to be sentimental about how the ...
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