While your audience will generally want your hero to gain something, for a truly great ending you’ll also have to make sure your protagonist loses something very dear.| Cracking Yarns
"In antiquity this sylvan landscape was the scene of a strange and recurring tragedy. On the northern shore of the lake, right under the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi is perched, stood the sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of the Wood. .. In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peer...| Cassandra's Legacy
Good Friday Sermon centering on the theme The Common Discomfort of Lent John 19:17-30 And carrying the cross by himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew[d] is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between … Continue reading Discomfort of Sacrifice| Strong Female Pastor
May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean is a pitch-perfect study of a woman’s life traced from cradle to grave compressed into a taut 180 pages. With quiet precision, Sinclair distills the …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Long-time followers will recognize this; for you newer followers this post is a variation on a subject I speak about on this day every year. The armistice that ended battlefield hostilities during …| Norm 3.0
René Girard reveals the deep connection between vaccination and human sacrifice.| OUTSIDER THEORY
“Stop fighting! You are brother and sister, you are going to have to forgive each other!” I can quote many of the sayings my mother would say. But her remarks every time my brothers and I would fig…| Frassati Reflections