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How to win and lose gracefully
I still can’t stop thinking about that World Series. It was surely one of the best in memory. Hard fought, civil and respectful — unlike that other battle that’s been going on that has its seventh game tomorrow.
What the Cubbies lost when they won
Oh, somewhere in the favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey … Continue reading
Christians and cultural ambiguity
Yesterday’s Catch apparently created a number of favorable tweets. My wife, Marti, thought it contained one of my best sentences ever in, “And even if [government] could get people to behave like Christians, without a relationship with Jesus Christ, they, … Continue reading
C.S. Lewis on Christianity and politics
In a recent article in The New York Times about the political views of C.S. Lewis, Peter Wehner writes, For those of us who believe in the truth of Christianity and still believe in the good of politics, the last … Continue reading
Growing through our addictions
We are all addicted to any number of things, it’s just that we don’t think of many things as addictions when they really are. For instance, I’m addicted to life as it is. I resist the changes that are necessary … Continue reading
It’s Halloween, and everything is already pretty scary
It’s Halloween and no one needs a mask this year because, with the most divisive, disruptive election in memory only a week away, everything is already pretty scary. When a newspaper, after endorsing candidates from a single political party for … Continue reading
What does true love mean?
True love means you go seek your fortune so you can return and provide for your true love. True love means you wait for your true love to return as he promised. True love means you scale the Cliffs of … Continue reading
Praying over the Princess Bride
The full subtitle for the book, The Princess Bride, from which the screenplay for the movie was drawn, is a long one: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, the ‘Good Parts’ Version Abridged by William Goldman. … Continue reading
The real meaning behind the words ‘as you wish’
“As you wish,” establishes so much of what The Princess Bride is to people, what it means, and why it still works now, 30 years after it first came out. It’s in the story from the very beginning as the … Continue reading
Prepare to die!
Upon further review, that “prepare to die” thing with Inigo Montoya could go another way — something like this … Instead of thinking of Inigo Montoya as basing his life on seeking revenge, since he is such a likable character … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 