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Now that I am back home I can post further pictures I took in Vermont. Here are some of the many I took at the Norman Rockwell museum in Rutland Vt. Enjoy, and pick your favorites. BW3 <a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MCBNSn1DlAU/SZAoiZ1eyTI/AAAAAAAAB6I/t5LcV-pJMCk/s1600-h/vermont+302.jpg”>

There are a plethora of southern writers like Clyde Edgerton who continue the particular tradition of southern fiction that William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor really established in the 20th century. What these authors and this tradition has in common, besides their clear immersion in Southern culture is the deep indebtedness to the Biblical narrative…

By common consent amongst scholars, and others as well, by far the greatest theologian in American history thus far was Jonathan Edwards (1703-58). Yet if we ask the question of which of his works have had the most influence and made the most impact on American and in fact on Christian life world wide, it…

Have you ever had that sad feeling that you just missed your opportunity for a good bit of repartee or a zinger or come backer, and then you rehash in your mind what you should have said or wished you had said? Well, my friends, fear not. Help has arrived. We now have the Biblical…

I am currently reading a fine treatment of the First Great Awakening by Philip Gura entitled Jonathan Edwards, America’s Evangelical (Hill and Wang, 2005). Unlike George Marsden’s more comprehensive and definitive life of Jonathan Edwards, Gura contents himself with focusing on the issue of religious experience, about which Edwards has reams to say. No one…

Perhaps if you know any Latin at all, you will know the little phrase ‘cogito ergo sum’ or ‘I think/cogitate therefore I am’. It is perhaps one of the most famous sentences ever uttered in modern history. The first time I ever heard this phrase was, oddly enough, whilst listening to one of my favorite…

Here’s a video sent to me by Marc Axelrod of Zoei Toh, a two year old that American Idol should check out, not least ‘because He lives’.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the beauty of New England in October, and nothing is more beautiful than the maple trees, but their beauty is not confined to the outside of the tree. Within is a treasure as well, and nowhere in the U.S. is more famous for its maple syrup than Vermont (Aunt…

The old stone wall’s a miracleUneven rocks row on row Without a bit of mortarYet each with a place to go. How did the mason reckon itSo that the top would be on the level Did he just suddenly start assemblingOr use a line and bevel? And what faith he had whilst buildingThat malice or…

The picture at the top is the famous portrait of Daniel Boone at the end of his life in Missouri painted by Chester Harding from Boston in 1819. The second picture is the famous one of Boone leading men through the Cumberland gap and Boone’s Trace, the path he hacked through the wilderness to get…
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