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So What is Freedom Anyway?

Freedom is one of our culture’s favourite buzzwords. It’s an applauded theme in film, politics, and art, and why shouldn’t it be? Freedom is a long sought after human right. Well known writer Ayn Rand said, “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my…

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Mirror Dimly

In Saint Paul's "love chapter" Paul provides us with a metaphor to explain our earthly limitations. Life before the resurrection is life lived as though through a mirror dimly. In context, Paul is speaking about the different aspects of worship that revolve around Scripture; singing,…

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CS Lewis: on seeing through a mirror dimly

If our religion is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.CS…

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Learning to Trust in the Slow Work of God

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without the delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And…

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