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Almost four years ago, I reviewed Echo, a prayer app. I thought it would be helpful to an individual’s prayer life. But recently, Echo was updated to include a new feature that might actually be a huge help to a church’s prayer life.
There is a lot to be said for writing by hand. It is slow, which is good in our rushed and reckless world. Writing by hand focusses the mind and facilitates a connection between the pen and the person, the ink and the idea.
I just wish I had better penmanship.
And that I wrote faster. And that my hand-written posts could be transcribed automatically.
Looks like I might get some help on that last one.
The preceding lines were all written using my newest notebook: Rocketbook.
The Rocketbook is an endlessly reusable notebook designed for digitization. Let me explain.
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You are reading a post in the series “Facing the Raven,” which is itself part of our larger “Science Fiction & Biblical Reality” series that can also be read in Finding Faith Inside the Big Blue Box: A Whovian’s 30 Day Devotional.
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Excerpts from “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
In one of the introductions to this series, I explained how the quantum shade, the Raven, cannot be escaped. Once it has been dispatched, it will not return to its perch without having claimed the soul it was promised.
You are reading a post in the series “Facing the Raven,” which is itself part of our larger “Science Fiction & Biblical Reality” series that can also be read in Finding Faith Inside the Big Blue Box: A Whovian’s 30 Day Devotional.
When I was a kid, I was told that I wouldn’t be able to take my Nintendo to Heaven with me.
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You are reading a post in the series “Facing the Raven,” which is itself part of our larger “Science Fiction & Biblical Reality” series that can also be read in Finding Faith Inside the Big Blue Box: A Whovian’s 30 Day Devotional.
This book started with a quote from Clara Oswald as she faced the Raven, the avian avatar of her own mortality, on Trap Street, where she and The Doctor and another human had been lured.
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You are reading a post in the series “Facing the Raven,” which is itself part of our larger “Science Fiction & Biblical Reality” series that can also be read in Finding Faith Inside the Big Blue Box: A Whovian’s 30 Day Devotional.
River Song might be one of the greatest characters in all of Doctor Who. She made her first appearance in the two-parter “Silence in the Library”/”Forest of the Dead,” and she’s been a bright spot in the show ever since. She’s strong, intelligent, and has the most convoluted timeline of anyone, aside from The Doctor, so she’s perfect friendly foil.
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