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Days of Waiting

I’ve been dropping the word “pneumonia” here and there around the blog for since the middle of January, and before that I may have mentioned I had bronchitis. This has been a winter of poor health, with one thing leading to another, but not yet to recovery. I saw a specialist last Monday and that …

February 28, 2009 – 8:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments Off

“Happy 400th Birthday, John Milton”

Great words from the great poet: Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? … I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland …

December 9, 2008 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , | Comments (1)