Several years ago I trained for a marathon. The first time I ran six miles I remember panting and thinking, “How will I ever run 26?” I was spent after my first long day. My legs ached. An hour of running seemed so long. But I kept running. I wasn’t very fast. My body creaked […]
Archives for August 2014
How to Read a Book Better
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren have done us a tremendous favor in supplying us with several excellent rules for reading. They are as follows: Classify the book according to the kind and subject matter. State what the whole book is about with the upmost brevity. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and […]
Fallen Angels in Genesis
This post is overdue. I’ve been meaning to write it. I just haven’t. Honestly, it’s a strange topic. But here we go… I have changed my understanding of Genesis six and the question of angels having sexual relations with humans. What I Thought The passage in question reads this way: When man began to multiply […]