Nielsen’s Nook

“Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them, tinging their thoughts, their views, their most intimate feelings, their private life,  ...”
Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes. Everyman's Library. (London: Random Century Group, 1991), 133.

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A Christian like Malcolm X 2010-02-13

Forsaking the status quo (aka, the old life)Malcolm had a radical conversion experience while in prison. His conversion certainly involved turning from an immoral path to a moral one; however, I would make the case that more fundamental aspect of this experience was the distillation of identity.For Malcolm being a  ...

Recent Devotional

Reflections on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-12-19

12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among  ...

Current Events

New York State Police Chief Quits In Wake Of Scandal Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:28

Harry Corbitt didn't give a reason for his retirement, effective Wednesday. The superintendent has acknowledged that a police official had contact with a woman who accused a top aide to Gov. David Paterson of domestic  ...
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Translations

Translation and Commentary on Hebrews 3:15-19 2009-01-10

15 as it is said:Today if you should hear[1] his voice, Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion.[2]16 For who were those who heard and rebelled? Was it not everyone who came out from Egypt by means of Moses? 17 And with whom was he[3] angered for forty[4] years? Was it  ...

Prose & Poetry

Thank you for silence 2007-05-16

PrefaceA poem I jotted down today during a break between sessions on a staff retreat. I have been studying Deuteronomy for a sermon series I am preaching at an area church and was overwhelmed at the manifold ways in which my own heart breaks the first commandment to have  ...

Today in History

Come and See - Part 1 (John 1:35-51) 2007-03-10

course on the paintings on display in the Louvreprofessor Richard Brettellwhat  ...