One Eternal Day

On Labor Day, I return to Gene Edward Veith's post about "vocation" (the link to his blog post no longer works): .... The wo...

In "Confessing Sin, Then and Now," an Anglican pastor dislikes some modern liturgical innovations. I think he's right. The ...

In an interesting essay reviewing a book about the role of "religion" in government, a few paragraphs explaining the original und...

I usually describe my theological position as "orthodox" rather than evangelical partly because of the political associations the ...

When my father died, I asked the pastor to use scriptures that remind us of the hope we have. They are scriptures used for the funeral of a ...

Re-posted. Modern Heresies is a book I found in the Milton College Library. I was an undergraduate, and my work-study job was shelving boo...

Re-posted from a few years ago.  From "Quiet Hope: A New Year’s Resolution." : .... What Leon Kass calls the “higher cynicism” h...

From Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" : .... What think ye of Christ? Before we adopt any of the unofficial so...

I have several good friends who are, or at least once were, Dispensationalists in their theological framework. I'm not and, consequently...

From "Athanasius against the world." Well worth reading (but it may be behind a paywall): Seventeen hundred years ago, in a.d. 3...

Mark Tooley on "Douglas Wilson’s America." The subtitle is "His work to create a confessionally Christian state is the wrong...

I find it annoying when local churches indulge in cute "branding." The first time I recall feeling that way was when a church that...

I am a believer in "honest ecumenism," that is, ecumenism that does not ignore or minimize the real doctrinal differences that do ...

From a review of Alister McGrath's  Why We Believe : His latest book, Why We Believe , provides McGrath with another opportunity to ...

C.S. Lewis on the Incarnation: …the Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is...

First Things is a magazine that has always had Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish contributors. Carl Trueman, a Protestant, is one ...

An ancient heresy returns again in support of political bigotry. From The Free Press : .... Like a boil on the backside of the body politic,...

Philip Jenkins , always worth reading, on "The Nicene Myth," in which he argues that the Council of Nicaea wasn't the inflect...

Foundations of Faith  begins with a quotation often attributed to St Augustine: “In the essentials, unity, in the non-essentials liberty, an...

Re-posted because it is so right: Jonathan Aigner ponders "How To Choose Music For A Funeral." I agree with much (not all) that ...