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Lost in Wonder

February 19, 2015, Published by

There’s a sweeping trend online at the moment for sentimental stories; you know the kind? They usually whisk you off to a video; the title will tell you that you’re going to be amazed, your life will be changed, and you will be awestruck and filled with wonder as an unknown person wows the whole internet. And you’ll watch something sentimental for thirty seconds then get bored and go on with your day. Can I ask the question; have you ever been truly awestruck by what waited on the other side of the hyperlink? For me the effect of all of these things...
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Peace Has Come

December 22, 2014, Published by

It had actually been a really good day up until that moment; not perhaps the perfect day, but its average was definitely high. The trains were all running late but by good fortune I managed to get on an alternate that would get me home earlier, so I dropped my bag and my bones onto the first seat I saw and sighed contentedly. It was around about this point that it happened. Someone acknowledged my existence. Not just a nod either, actual verbal recognition of my presence near them on the train. And they had children. The future flashed before my...
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No Other Name

June 27, 2014, Published by

The Passion façade of la Sagrada Familia is an awe inspiring sight. Eight and a half thousand letters, hand carved into imposing bronze doors, tell the story of the crucifixion of Christ from the Gospel of St. John. Every time the name of Jesus is carved it is raised higher than the other letters and picked out in gold. I stood for quite some time before these doors, captured by their power and beauty, and as I did so something awesome happened; the shadow from the top half of the door fell above the name of Jesus and, for just...
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The Stone-thrower’s Gospel

April 7, 2014, Published by

Gay marriage. Abortion. The Noah movie. Mark Driscoll. You may have noticed that none of these topics ever get addressed here at Sixty Stadia. There are those who will say that this is a failure to be relevant; on the contrary, this is an intentional decision to, as Pastor Brian Houston says, keep the main thing the main thing. There seems to be so much stone throwing in the religious world at the moment that I do wonder if someone needs to open up a quarry to keep up with demand; it might be a quicker way to make money...
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God Out of Office?

March 14, 2014, Published by

One of the books I’ve dipped in and out of lately is The Iliad; don’t worry, I’ve not converted to polytheism, cast aside my salvation – if such a thing were even possible – or started worshipping Zeus, I just have a literary interest in the book. In the early chapters, after a rather large tiff between Achilles and King Agamemnon, Achilles’ mother heads up to Mount Olympus to petition Zeus on her son’s behalf. What happens next was most amusing; Zeus, the big daddy of all the Greek deities, is not at home. He can’t answer her petitions because...
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