Happy Birthday Ellie!

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More wonder

A few months ago I mentioned something about wonder, and how we need more of it in our lives generally, and in our reading of scripture, books, or in our “reading” of anything, really. A couple more thingies on wonder, then…
First, from Eugene Peterson’s Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life, a [...]

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Booklust and the Anglo-Reformed Clergyman

We are a bookish lot. Even if we aren’t natively bookish, we are particularly susceptible to the temptation of wishing to appear bookish. And it’s very important to keep folks from thinking that you’re trying to appear bookish. Inauthentic bookishness is grounds for presbyterial censure around here. You can’t buy your way [...]

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The Art of Mothering and the Mothering of Art, written by Ellie LaVeer

I’ve started my own blog. I hope you will visit often. I’m giving Manila Drive to Andy so that our separate blogs can fall into their own categories and not be so spotty. Please visit me at www.ellielaveer.wordpress.com where I will share my stories on motherhood, songwriting and whatever else seems appropriate [...]

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Wonder

I wrote a paper last semester on “The Hermeneutics of Wonder in the Gospel according to Luke”.  I think it was pretty good.  What inspired it was an essay I had read a year prior by a medievalist historian named Carolyn Walker Bynum, who, as its president, addressed the American Historical Association  on the posture [...]

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Meet the newest member of our family

Owen Anthony Stager was born on Friday morning at 1:53am. He is a beautiful healthy little boy weighing in at 7lb 4oz and 20 inches tall.
We were so blessed to take him home on Saturday afternoon and are enjoying life as a family. Deacon loves to kiss and hold baby Owen. He [...]

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The Ubiquity of the Nativity?

I just happened to read a report of Pope Benedict’s Christmas Eve Midnight Mass homily while I was working on streaming M.Ward’s newest record (for free here). Much of what he said was nice. And then, after reporting on how the homily touched on the original nativity’s obscurity—Jesus having been born to a [...]

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Better than apples

Yesterday evening at church I received a half pound or so of delicious coffee from the West End Coffee Co. in Greenville, SC, given to me in appreciation for my Sunday School teaching efforts this semester by a young man who has recently become one of my favorite chaps in Columbia (and not just because [...]

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Out of the mouths of babes…

“The Industrial Revolution was a time of great joy! Jobs were booming throughout the industry and the majority of hard-laboring jobs had finally been eliminated. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the Industrial Revolution brought about great aspects for the European nation, the cons to this belligerent time period eventually caused a collapse of [...]

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Don’t take this too seriously

I’ve always been obsessed, I think, with having a niche, having an audience—a captive audience. I make myself think that it doesn’t matter if I’m world famous, as long as a particular group of people think I’m pretty darn special. But then, of course, that particular group of people becomes too small, too [...]

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