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Dominion: A Holy Week Book Recommendation

April 13, 2022 Nathan Patton 2 Comments Beautiful Scandalous Night, Crucifixion, Culture, Dominion, Easter, History, Holy Week, Jesus Christ, Persecution, The Choir, Tom Holland (Historian)

Dominion by Tom Holland seeks to show how Christianity and the crucifixion of Jesus is the most influential factor in Western culture and society.

Music

Five Albums We Can’t Stop Listening To

April 4, 2022 Nathan Patton 9 Comments A Deeper Understanding, Album, Ancient of Days, Archangel, Boston, Boyhood, Bruce Springsteen, Change Your World, Chicago, Colin Hendra, Daniel, Dire Straits, Galadriel, Ghost, Go West Young Man, Harmonia's Dream, Hutchmoot, I 2 (Eye), I Believe in You Now, I Don't Live Here Anymore, I Will Not, III: Pentecost, In the Darkness, John Batiste, Let Me Show You the Way, Listening, Live the Life, Lost in the Dream, Matthew McConaughey, Michael W. Smith, Missing Person, Montana, Mumford & Sons, Muse, My Written Heart, NEEDTOBREATHE, Never Been Unloved, Occasional Rain, Old Skin, Rabbit Room, Snapshot, Spirit and Fire, The Irish EP, The War on Drugs, The Who, Tom Petty, TopHouse, Vanity, WE ARE, Written in the Rain, Wytch Hazel

Here are five albums we just can’t enough of.

The Five

Need A New Podcast? Fantastic Listening Experiences We Recommend

October 1, 2021 Nathan Patton 4 Comments Alister McGrath, Apologetics, Ask NT Wright Anything, Brandon Sanderson, C.S. Lewis, Christianity Today, Dan Wells, Dominic Sandbrook, Hutchmoot, Intentionally Blank, International Podcast Day, Jonathan Rogers, Justin Brierley, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, Mars Hill Church, N.T. Wright, Podcast, Premier Christian Radio, Rabbit Room, The C.S. Lewis Podcast, The Habit, The Rest is History, The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill, Tom Holland (Historian), Unbelievable?, Writing, Writing Excuses

In honor of International Podcast Day today (September 30, 2021), I am sharing five of my favorite podcasts.

Tribute

Rambling Ever On Pays Tribute to Clarence Lewis

October 9, 2020 Nathan Patton 3 Comments Christian, Eternity, Family, Friendly, Grief, Honor, Hope, Hospitality, Jesus, Mentor, Mourning, Tribute, Welcoming

Anyone fortunate enough to know Clarence Lewis was better for it. We count ourselves among the fortunate.

500 Words or Less Literature The Five

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – and the Beauty of Friendship

July 6, 2020 Nathan Patton 1 Comment Brave, Cake, Charlie Mackesy, Courage, Friendship, Giving Up, Graphic Novel, Help, Honest, Love, Ordinary, Sketch, Strength, The Boy, The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, The Fox, The Horse, The Mole, Weakness

May we all have friends like the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse. No, may we all BE friends like them. Both, maybe? … Cake!

Literature The Five

Inspiration from The Green Ember

June 19, 2020 Nathan Patton 5 Comments Action, Anger, Commonplace Book, Ember Falls, Emma Joveson, Healing, Heather Longtreader, Hope, Jealousy, Picket Longtreader, Rabbits, S.D. Smith, Selfishness, Smalden "Smalls" Joveson, The Green Ember, Truth, Whittle Longtreader, Wilfred Longtreader, Wisdom

The Green Ember series has been meaningful to me in both the original context in which it was written and my personal context of the current events of 2020.

Film Literature The Five

How Hobbits Teach Us Courage

May 8, 2020 Nathan Patton 2 Comments Aragorn, Bilbo Baggins, Courage, Dwarves, Elves, Ents, Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Gimli, Hobbits, J.R.R. Tolkien, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Merry Brandybuck, Middle Earth, Peregrin Took, Pippin Took, Samwise Gamgee, Second Breakfast, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, Wizards

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

Tribute

Our Heartfelt Goodbye For Now To Benjamin Plunkett

May 1, 2020 Nathan Patton 8 Comments Ben, Benjamin Lloyd Plunkett, Benjamin Plunkett, C.S. Lewis, Death, Friendship, Grief, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien

Rambling Ever On says goodbye for now to one of our own.

Current Events

Keep Calm and Be Anxious for Nothing

March 20, 2020 Nathan Patton 1 Comment Anxiety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Facebook, Gentleness, Meditate, Peace, Philippians, Prayer, Rejoice, Twitter

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Coronavirus: Five Messages of Encouragement and Comfort

Rejoice in the Lord. Let your gentleness be known. Let your requests be made known to God. Be anxious for nothing. Meditate on these things. (Philippians 4)