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The Lost Sons
This week’s gospel reading at mass was the wonderful and polyonymous parable of the prodigal son. The parable reveals to us something about God and I encourage you to read it if you aren’t familiar with it. The beautiful Bride wrote about it here, with an emphasis on the younger son (who squandered his father’s inheritance) and encouraging people to consistently return to the unconditional love of God the Father (do read hers, my prose is dry chaff compared to hers). As she was writing it, she told me she felt strongly about getting her expression of that message out. However, after reading it with her, it’s not a message that deeply resonated with me. After considering why this was the case, it occurred to me that I can identify more with the older son. While the younger, who rejects his family and the land and cuts himself off, returns to the father and asks him to treat him as a hired servant, the older son, who while still seemingly within the family and land, reveals he considers himself cut off, describing himself as a servant and describing his brother to his father as “your son”. So while the younger son exemplifies an external sort of severance from family, the older exemplifies an internal sort of severance; he’s still acting as if he’s in the family but he does not think of himself as truly in the family.
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Immortal Souls — Chapter 1
I have read chapter 1 of Dr Edward Feser’s latest book, Immortal Souls and “journaling” as I go. A sample of the book can be read on Google Books.
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Book journaling Immortal Souls
I am going to try journaling as I read Dr Edward Feser’s latest book, Immortal Souls. A sample of it can be read on Google Books.
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The Bride and the Substack
My beautiful bride, Erin Gillard, has a free Substack (a blog) titled “By His Grace and For His Glory”.
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Future Contributions to NetNewsWire
I have contributed to the venerable open source iOS and macOS news reader app NetNewsWire for years. What follows is the comment I wrote in the thread about a tweet on NetNewsWire’s Slack workspace. The comment is addressed to the team and is about my ability to be on the team and contribute to the project.
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First Post
Hi there! Here is a little about me in case you don’t know (or thought you did!).
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