Category Archives: beauty

On the Beauty of Beauty: Stopping to Smell the Roses

Posted on October 1, 2026 by RC

It is a vestige of our modernist past that we remain so deeply committed to efficiency. We’re giddy at the utterly unfounded promise that AI is going to give us all the four hour work week. We imagine all we … Continue reading →

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Lisa’s Gifts; Midterms; That 70’s Kid, Changes; Choosing My Religion

Posted on September 30, 2026 by RC

Isn’t it time you tried the podcast? You know you want to. Your friends have encouraged you to do so. What’s holding you back? Don’t let it. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Grace Upon Grace: Further Up and Further In

Posted on September 17, 2026 by RC

The grace of God is as overpowering to my sin as His sovereignty was over the nothing at the creation. His grace is the unstoppable force that makes my sin, which was once entrenched, anchored, tethered to the very foundations … Continue reading →

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The Beauty Community: Our City of Light on a Hill

Posted on May 19, 2026 by RC

There is a reason our heart sometimes has its reasons that reason knows not of. We are not disembodied minds. Nor are we often motivated by something as sterile as the conclusion to a syllogism. Neither are those outside the … Continue reading →

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What is a liturgy? A Legacy and a Ragamuffin Man

Posted on May 11, 2026 by RC

Liturgy is one of those words that manages to be both vague, but also, sometimes, the perfect word. Liturgy simply means a tool of remembrance, grounded in beauty. Such tools can include the yearly flow of God’s feasts established for … Continue reading →

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The Cosmology of Elfland: Rejecting A Clockwork Orange

Posted on April 9, 2026 by RC

We are all the children of the Enlightenment. Even if we couldn’t begin to define “Enlightenment,” or if we know what it is and see it as an Endarkenment, we’re still shaped by it. It’s in our blood and sinews, … Continue reading →

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What is the Lord’s Day Worship For? What is its Purpose?

Posted on March 30, 2026 by RC

No, in a manner of speaking. The Lord’s Day isn’t for anything, but is that which everything else is for. The Lutheran theologian Marva Dawn wisely called worship “a royal waste of time.” That provocative phrase wasn’t a denial of … Continue reading →

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One Constant Through All the Years, Ray, Has Been Baseball

Posted on March 12, 2026 by RC

I don’t know who bought, I mean won, last year’s World Series. Over the course of the past 47 years the only World Series stories I recall are the Red Sox winning one, the Astros cheating and the earthquake in … Continue reading →

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Paradise Remembered: Longing for Our Home

Posted on December 30, 2025 by RC

Nostalgia has as its lightly buried foundation a longing for a place we have never been to, Eden. Home is but an echo, a shadow of our first and final home. Most of you were not blessed as I was, … Continue reading →

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Wisdom From My Bride; Folly from Trump’s Pen; Sovereign God

Posted on December 17, 2025 by RC

This week’s all new Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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