Monthly Archives: February 2014

Book Review: A Godward Heart

Posted on February 14, 2014 by nathanalbright

A Godward Heart: Treasuring The God Who Loves You, by John Piper [Note: This book was provided free of charge by WaterBrook Multnomah Press in exchange for an honest review.] You can learn a lot about an author by reading … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Forgiving Our Fathers And Mothers

Posted on February 13, 2014 by nathanalbright

Forgiving Our Fathers And Mothers, by Leslie Leyland Fields & Dr. Jill Hubbard [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Thomas Nelson in exchange for an honest review.] It is ironic, but at the same time entirely appropriate, … Continue reading →

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Why Must Holy Places Be Dark Places?

Posted on February 13, 2014 by nathanalbright

In the course of reading a book (review forthcoming), I came across a few intriguing and interrelated quotes that I would like to talk about. In his last, and least-well known work, Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis asked the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: First To Dance

Posted on February 13, 2014 by nathanalbright

First To Dance, by Sonya Writes [Note: This book was provided free of charge by the author in exchange for an honest review.] This particular book begins as a bit of a mystery, with a bright and curious young woman … Continue reading →

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Never Been To Scapoose

Posted on February 12, 2014 by nathanalbright

Before this evening, I had never been to Scapoose, a small town in Columbia county in the exurbs of Portland, a town that only has a few thousand people in it but manages to get prominently mentioned every time I … Continue reading →

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For My Father Has Many Offices

Posted on February 12, 2014 by nathanalbright

[Note: This post was rescued from being deleted on my local congregational website, along with a few others.] As believers in the Bible, we often muse about the sort of jobs that we will have in the Kingdom of God. … Continue reading →

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The Value Of Showing Up

Posted on February 11, 2014 by nathanalbright

This morning, despite the fact that there were widespread fears of ice storms and the like, the drive both to and from work ended up being pleasant today even if the roads were a bit full of loose stones that … Continue reading →

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More Is Different

Posted on February 11, 2014 by nathanalbright

Being fond of questions of human behavior as well as aspects of mathematical modeling (with a keen awareness of its assumptions and limitations), I often ponder the relationship between our behavior as individuals and the larger systems of which we … Continue reading →

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This Day In History: On Feburary 9, 1964, The Beatles Invaded America

Posted on February 10, 2014 by nathanalbright

This evening, after spending enough time indoors [1] over the course of my weekend, I decided to brave the elements and get some much-needed groceries and some shaving cream, and while I went, I got to listen to some lesser-known … Continue reading →

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Strike While The Iron Is Hot

Posted on February 10, 2014 by nathanalbright

Last week, before the weather became the big news in the Portland area, one of the big stories in our local news was the ominous foreshadowing of what would be the first local strike among teachers in the history of … Continue reading →

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