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The time is early April and a knock comes on the door of my office at school. At the door is a student who has come with great concern. It has finally occurred to the student that their grade is in jeopardy. After they tell me their version of what has gone wrong, the real…
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“We have heard much of the phrase, ‘peace and friendship.’ This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ‘peace and friendship, in freedom.’ This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.”
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I wrote a few weeks ago about how much I loved Tolkien’s world of Middle earth (heck, today I was pondering a few computer games where I could enter the world as a player). As I shared already, I think most of what draws me is the underlying Christianity of Tolkien. Not in a “in…