Sandra McCracken and Sara Groves perform McCracken’s song Dynamite (from her album Desire Like Dynamite). Here’s what McCracken has to say during the song: “Some friends and I went on a pilgrimage to meet Wendell Berry one afternoon and had a conversation with him about life, life living in a city, what does a sustainable …

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This week’s Border Watch piece is a reflection on the lives of Elisabeth and Jim Elliot, Elisabeth having died during the last week. The paper titled this ‘Lives Sacrificed To Help Strangers’. The story is more amazing than any work of fiction. Elisabeth and Jim Elliot were newly married in 1953. They had spent their …

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