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[October 2026 Culture Notes] From Brushstroke to Page, from Page to the Word
[October 2026 Culture Notes] From Brushstroke to Page, from Page to the WordOctober is here. The sky lifts, the afternoons shorten, and the hand turning the page slows down almost without noticing. On the church calendar, October is also the month we remember the Reformation. After a monk's theses went up on a church door on October 31, 1517, the Word traveled across Europe on the back of movabl..
2026.09.30
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From Harbor Warehouses to an Attic of Used Books: A Bookstore Tour of Takamatsu
From Harbor Warehouses to an Attic of Used Books: A Bookstore Tour of TakamatsuAmong travelers bound for Japan, one city keeps coming up in conversation lately: Takamatsu, the capital of Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. Takamatsu is best known as Japan's udon capital, and plenty of visitors come for nothing more than a bowl-by-bowl tour of its noodle shops. Others use it as a launchin..
2026.09.30
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root.log | Rooted in Scholarship and in Life: John Calvin, Part II
Rooted in Scholarship and in Life: John Calvin, Part II — From Strasbourg to His Final Days in GenevaIn the previous root.log column, this writer traced John Calvin's life through his first ministry in Geneva. This installment picks up the story from there, following how Calvin labored, over the rest of his life, to root the Reformed faith both in rigorous scholarship and in the everyday life of..
2026.09.25
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read.log | Botchan: Why Does Honesty Always Cost Something?
Botchan: Why Does Honesty Always Cost Something?There was a stretch when the personality test everyone reached for was the MBTI. It promises to tell you who you are by sorting your traits into a four-letter type. But somewhere along the way, a curious qualifier crept into how people talk about their results: socialized. A "socialized MBTI" versus an "unsocialized" one. It's a small phrase, but i..
2026.09.20
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step.log | A Stone Chapel in the Mountains of Korea: Where Nature and Prayer Meet
A Stone Chapel in the Mountains of Korea: Where Nature and Prayer MeetWhen people think of an escape into nature, mountain country tends to come to mind first. In South Korea, the province of Gangwon holds that place in the popular imagination: a stretch of land where mountains meet the sea and travelers can encounter nature in something close to its untouched form. This writer, who prefers trav..
2026.09.15
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read.log | Miracles: Does Christianity Still Hold Up in the Age of AI?
Miracles: Does Christianity Still Hold Up in the Age of AI?We have moved past the industrial age, through the information age, and now find ourselves living in the age of AI. Technological progress has given us tremendous convenience, but it has also reshaped traditional values along the way. That reshaping has not spared how people regard the Christian faith. It touches those outside the church..
2026.09.10
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desk.log | Riida: A Reading Tracker That Gets the Fundamentals Right
Riida: A Reading Tracker That Gets the Fundamentals RightToday's desk.log pick is Riida, a reading-tracker app. Plenty of apps in this category exist, but few let you choose between genuinely different bookshelf layouts. Riida's defining feature is that you can view your library in whichever format suits you, and it backs that up with solid rating and note-taking tools. It works just as well for..
2026.09.05
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start.log | Let Us Begin Again ⑧: Pray Without Ceasing | 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Prayer Is a Means of Grace Ordained by GodOf all the disciplines that mark the Christian life, prayer is one we can never set aside. This is why no sermon is complete without some word of exhortation to pray. And yet, for the believer, prayer is never easy. Many of the faithful, even in the act of praying, find themselves troubled by doubt — Am I praying rightly? Why does my prayer go unanswered..
2026.09.01
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view.log | [September 2026 Culture Notes] Ink and Color at the Turn of Autumn
[September 2026 Culture Notes] Ink and Color at the Turn of AutumnSeptember has a way of resetting the clock. The worst of the heat finally breaks, mornings carry a crispness that wasn't there a week ago, and bookstores start stacking the tables with everything meant to be read once school is back in session. It's a fitting month for anyone who spent August putting things off. This time around, ..
2026.08.31
