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A Confession

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. July 22, 2015. Each week at church, the congregation is led into a confession of sin by the pastor. The confessions are always timely, compassionate, and tender. I wanted to share the most recent one, as it was especially helpful to put into words. I need to hear this daily. The pastor is in plain script while the congregation is in bold. Send your Spirit to end the strife in our broken hearts, that we might look at one another with the love and compassion that yo...

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. A curious copy editor. Sep 21, 2014. I say there, good Chap, he began, what say you of the third book of Moses, whereby he did jot down regulations concerning the sacrifices? Leviticus, d’you mean? Right ho, good fellow. Skip ahead a bit, dear Brother. Oh, right. When in the course of human events it became necessary for sacrifices to appease the judgment of the Lord, to. Continue reading →. Sep 14, 2014. A great lie is that sticks and stones may break your bones,...

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Earned Innocence

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. May 19, 2015. In Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. She writes about having an earned innocence. I think she (or he, depending on who’s narrating) is right. After looking at the world and what it has to offer, one might be tempted to go back to be as one of those little ones. The other option is to be jaded and bitter. Which is better naïveté or cynicism? Is there a middle road? Children brim with hope and trust and faith. They haven’t be...We can ...

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A Daily Routine

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. June 26, 2015. Every day an old man late sixties, flannel button-down, faded shoes was seen walking steadily along the street, just south of the park downtown. Benches lined the walk and a coffee shop sat on the end of his daily commute, where he would sit down with a book and a No. 1 pencil Palomino Blackwing 602 and a knife Buck. The young man was greeted by the waitress, who smiled at him and asked him what he would like. He replied, “Oh! Ldquo;Oh, I haven&rsqu...

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The Limitations of a Dilettante

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. April 2, 2015. The Limitations of a Dilettante. The amount of time it requires to be good at something is substantial. Perhaps “substantial” isn’t the right word enormous, overwhelming, immense, like the rising of a shadowed mountain. This singularity. A person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge; syn. Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. The philosophers who say this are called Logical ...

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. A curious copy editor. Jul 22, 2015. Each week at church, the congregation is led into a confession of sin by the pastor. The confessions are always timely, compassionate, and tender. I wanted to share the most recent one, as it was especially helpful to put into words. I need to hear this daily. The pastor is in plain script while the congregation is in bold. Our hypocrisy is shocking as we willfully blind ourselves to the mountain of remaining. Jun 26, 2015.

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The Liquidation of Language

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. April 3, 2015. The Liquidation of Language. The great enemy of clear language, wrote George Orwell in his essay Politics and the English Language, is insincerity. Language is being liquidated, sold off piece by piece, its assets turned over and redistributed for other purposes. Language, he wrote, is in a bad way. (Orwell’s essay was published in 1946, three years before he wrote about Syme and the Newspeak dictionary in his classic dystopia. They’re taught in cla...

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One-and-Twenty

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. May 13, 2015. WHEN I was one-and-twenty. I heard a wise man say,. Ldquo;Give crowns and pounds and guineas. But not your heart away;. Give pearls away and rubies. But keep your fancy free.”. But I was one-and-twenty,. No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty. I heard him say again,. Ldquo;The heart out of the bosom. Was never given in vain;. Tis paid with sighs a plenty. And sold for endless rue.”. And I am two-and-twenty,. And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

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The Schaefferian Return

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Brandon Giella is writing on the Svbtle. May 28, 2015. By that I mean that my stable upbringing affords me the time and money to even have these thoughts to begin with, and not everyone is so lucky. They work hand-to-mouth, as it were. So, if I am dissatisfied with the way I am, I can change it, right? Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Sadly, though, or perhaps gratefully, one finds in contemplation all the dark and cavernous corners of the soul. I read this account. Of theologian Francis Schaeffer. I do no...