MacDonald (as selected by Lewis)

[Kendel]

Better and better each time I read it, Merv. Thanks. This is an excellent New Year’s focus.

I think it pairs well with a bit of Kierkegaard:

Pithy quotes from our current reading which give us pause to reflect

I’m just starting to work through Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, fearfully and tremblingly myself. It’s a strange book, but it is worth working for. In thinking I am laborious. I will continue to attempt to be thorough, rather than quick. I intend to miss as little of value as possible. In those old days it was different: then, faith was a task for one’s entire life because people assumed that the capacity to have faith was not acquired either in days or weeks. When the old man, tried a…