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Getting out of the boat part 3: Epilogue to John

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  Getting out of the boat part III: Epilogue to the gospel of John. We have unfinished business and it has to do with Peter. We saw how in Luke 5, Peter dropped his fishing nets, and walked away from his trade to follow this man who seemed extraordinary. We saw in Matthew 14 how Peter, while keeping this same man in sight, was able to defy the laws of physics and step out of a fishing boat, into a storm. There is a third instance regarding Peter and boats we need to discuss. You see, Peter, when he walked on water with Christ, faltered. He saw the waves and wind around him, and caved to that pressure in fear. He began to sink.  That isn’t the most infamous time Peter caved to pressure. Chances are better than none that you, reader, know from scripture or common knowledge Peter’s epic failure via threefold denial of Jesus on the night before his crucifixion. Every gospel has an account of the denial. The four gospels vary in what details they include, yet every gospel descr...
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Restitution: A short story

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  Restitution A short story by Jonah Robson When first assigned as assistant to an imperial advisor, I was determined not to get my  fingers cut off. I’d heard stories of young attendants, eager to please, getting assorted digits chopped for insolence such as getting the wrong type of meat from the wet market, or interrupting their master, or even for not making their masters’ corn tea fast enough. Imagine my terror, then, when I was appointed to no other court advisor but old Sunye, the most hated, enigmatic, and, frankly, depressed looking court advisor in the entire city. I’d seen him only a few times: once I spotted him wordlessly observing a public debate between some high class citizens:my father, and our capital’s Committee of Cultural Order. He stood at the back of the meeting hall, leaning up against a wrought iron pillar, arms crossed, his face displaying weary exasperation. He did not speak at all.  The second time I saw old Sunye in public, he was being ha...
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