Chasing After Virtue Through Joy
Had a cool experience over the weekend. I was driving over to my mom’s and on the way there was just praying that I would
Had a cool experience over the weekend. I was driving over to my mom’s and on the way there was just praying that I would
1 Cities and Communes Communal Italy generally refers to the urbanized areas in Lombardy and Tuscany during this time. Self-governing communes emerged around 1080-1120. But by
This morning during prayer time, I was talking to the Lord about my resolutions to do better in some specific areas of my life. One of
In my efforts to add virtue to my faith, I thought I’d start with some glaring areas of non-virtue in my life and see if
I found an interesting parallel to an earlier morality law debate in the Roman republic in 195 BC. The older Lex Oppia (215 BC) had
Pastor Daniel Fusco from Crossroads Community Church: Add to your faith virtue- moral excellence. When we respond to Jesus, it should generate a new morality
Since the first thing Peter told us to add to our faith in 2 Peter 1 was virtue, I thought I’d look at what exactly
This is a recap of the Oxford History of Italy book on this particular age, from 476, the fall of the western Roman empire, to
“5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance,
This is a recap of a video I watched that I found kind of amusing.I put my own comments in indented sections. Modern society is
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.