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Birds and Branches: A Blessing for 2021

A couple of years ago, I was asked to share a short devotional at the faculty assembly. I found it the other day while cleaning out my files. It seemed appropriate as a blessing for the beginning of the year. Photo by Ross Stone on…

Justin BaileyJanuary 4, 2021

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 7-Frodo and Sam

https://youtu.be/ygNzHqWPy3g The last video in our current series looks at the two hobbits who carried the Ring to Mordor, and what they can teach us about hope, despair, and heroism.

Justin BaileyJune 23, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 6-Gandalf Stormcrow

https://youtu.be/WFlafAfLifM Part six of the series on Gandalf, who wakes characters from despair

Justin BaileyJune 16, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 5-Aragorn’s Story

https://youtu.be/qJkP-BOOP88 Episode Five: Aragorn's Story

Justin BaileyJune 9, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 4 – Amdir & Estel

https://youtu.be/BrJgMJeuDXQ A reflection on two kinds of hope, and one of my favorite passages in Tolkien's works!

Justin BaileyJune 2, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 3-The Fear of Death

https://youtu.be/gR-N1l8nL1M

Justin BaileyMay 26, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 2-Things that Are Cursed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3zsNW1LE0 Episode Two: Parks and Rec, Madden, the Cubs, the Noldor, Turin Turambar, and us!

Justin BaileyMay 19, 2020

Costly Hope Tolkien Tuesdays

Tolkien Tuesday: 1-A “Long Defeat” is Still a Defeat

Is Tolkien’s legendarium, like the Norse legends, driven more by despair than by hope? If all things seem to come to ruin, what is the place of hope in Middle-Earth? And if his mythology is meant to shed light on the Primary World - our…

Justin BaileyMay 12, 2020

Commencement Addresses Costly Hope Talks & Lectures

The Wisdom of Weakness: The Coronavirus and the Cross

https://www.facebook.com/drjustinbailey/posts/127644232240974 Graduates of Dordt University, President Hoekstra and members of the board, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, friends, and family: What a pleasure it is to deliver this commencement address, especially to you the graduates of Dordt University. What a tremendous accomplishment it is to make…

Justin BaileyMay 11, 2020

Confessional Costly Hope

Crisis, Cliché, and Costly Hope

What makes a cliché a cliché? Is it the sheer fact of overuse, like a pop hit that has been overplayed? Or is it the brevity, boiling down complexity to fit on a bumper sticker? Or is it the sugary comfort that dissolves like cotton…

Justin BaileyMay 4, 2020

Costly Hope

Birds and Branches: A Blessing for 2021

Tolkien Tuesday: 7-Frodo and Sam

Tolkien Tuesday: 6-Gandalf Stormcrow

Tolkien Tuesday: 5-Aragorn’s Story

Tolkien Tuesday: 4 – Amdir & Estel

Tolkien Tuesday: 3-The Fear of Death

Tolkien Tuesday: 2-Things that Are Cursed

Tolkien Tuesday: 1-A “Long Defeat” is Still a Defeat

The Wisdom of Weakness: The Coronavirus and the Cross

Crisis, Cliché, and Costly Hope

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