tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post5277032042165715574..comments2023-12-21T07:05:42.464-05:00Comments on Erik's Choice: Every Jot and Tittle: John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress,' Part the First (1678)Erik Donald Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-51231427813748908352016-09-08T03:48:41.766-05:002016-09-08T03:48:41.766-05:00I picked this up decades ago and saw some of the c...I picked this up decades ago and saw some of the cloistered speeches within. I did NOT finish it, as to me it appeared to want to be just another pulpit inspired rewrite of The Sermon on the Mount. *meh* It is hard enough navigating the realm of faith and understanding without piling on by pulpit pimps.(from any century)the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-38476898190859277262016-09-07T03:44:11.884-05:002016-09-07T03:44:11.884-05:00It was popular when I was a kid (in Nigeria) but I...It was popular when I was a kid (in Nigeria) but I think I didn't understand any of it, I just heard the title a lot. <br /><br />Been trying very hard to find some of the first poetry I knew, in two books - the bookcovers were plain, I think they were a book one and book three so probably school poetry readers, i think there was a ship/boat (like a Longman or Heinemann logo) on the cover, and it must have had hymns, rhymes, and poems from England. Around the same time I read from "Songs of Praise" a wildly popular simple little book of hymns. thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-32292769724914572232016-09-06T09:15:12.047-05:002016-09-06T09:15:12.047-05:00I should reread this. the first time through I was...I should reread this. the first time through I was such a young fellow, so naive and full of myself. I tended to think it all trash. Hopefully I have learned a thing or two.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com