The Newcomer

On Marriage (or, The Mathematics of One) (Mon, 11 May 2026)
Marriage seeks to defy the rules of the natural world. In physics, we learn that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Combine two things and you must end with more matter, or at least the release of energy. Yet on the wedding day, we witness a paradox: two people arrive as singles and are expected […]
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Broad Ways and Hill Paths (Sun, 19 Apr 2026)
The broad way is a highway, with life going 1000 miles an hour. Life thus lived is at great risk, all in order to obtain some seemingly valuable reward. But that destination is the horizon, which, even as we increase our speed, stay stubbornly far away. We will never have enough of whatever it is […]
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A Life Well Lived (Sun, 29 Mar 2026)
A life well lived is measured not in achievements but in people — the family gathered around you by blood, by covenant, by shared labor, and by shared faith. Scripture crowns the aged not with gold but with relationships:  “Children’s children are a crown to the aged” — Proverbs 17:6 These bonds did not come […]
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