The pope recently spoke at the United Nations in New York, where he proved himself more than capable of intelligent discourse in a secular setting. I admire that. I see American Christianity as having a tendency to immerse itself in its own subculture so much as to make itself nearly incomprehensible to the [...]
The paths of Columbia were a bit crowded during our bike ride yesterday.
One family of non-native English speakers was a bit startled as we came whizzing out of a tunnel. They scrambled off the path and one of the smaller children said, “Sorry!” in heavily-accented English. I had thanked them in [...]
From a BBC news article, quoting one striker talking to another:
“I knew I’d find you here, because the crowd’s alphabetical.”
“King of the couch”
“Home + work: two words that should never be together”
Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature. She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, [...]
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