April 26, 2008
Give sorrow words; grief that does not speak Whispers to the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Shakespeare, Macbeth Some of the Psalm lines I quoted in my previous post were from Psalm 84. I had read this Psalm many times in the past, but this past week it has made an indelible impression on […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 25, 2008
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have spent the last week in a setting that helped me to relive, move through and more deeply heal some of the trauma of my life. The deaths of Sheila, Joshua and my marriage have left me with some deep scars. Only within the past eighteen months […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 2, 2008
I have recently created some pages where I can offer some previously published and unpublished materials for download. I will occasionally comment on these to alert readers of their availability. At the moment there are several documents available on the Academic Materials page. One article is a presentation I made at the Christian Scholar’s Conference on a […]
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