One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Legislating morality

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Kevin DeYoung has been thinking about when the government should legislate morality and in "Abortion and the Duty to Legislate Some Mor...

"This nation, under God...."

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Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although most Americans revere him as our greatest President, he r...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Too Christian

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There are those who doubt the exclusion of Christianity from the public square. Their doubt has to be willful—at least with respect to acade...

"Hard-wired" for faith?

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Long ago, St. Augustine said of God, "You have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it rests in you." Later, Pasca...

The god within

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One of my favorite quotations from G.K. Chesterton: Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within. Any one...
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Always personal but never private

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Catholic Archbishop Chaput of Denver is one of the most vigorous advocates for Christian political involvement when moral issues are at sta...

Forsake me not when my strength is spent

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Congress is about to pass a Stimulus Bill containing much besides stimulus [and probably not much of that]. Among its provisions, apparently...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Honoring Lincoln

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A friend just called my attention to this bicentennial stamp issued to celebrate Lincoln's birthday this week. There are apparently four...

The habit of virtue

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My initial introduction to Edmund Burke was in Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot , in which Burke is identifie...
Friday, February 6, 2009

The Choir of St. John's

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Nathaniel Peters at First Things has discovered that the Choir of St. John's College has placed recordings of their services online. ...

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong"

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The current National Review , published during the week of Lincoln's birthday, includes an article by Allen Guelzo, a respected Lincoln...

Only God is God

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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver writes about the danger of thinking that scientific knowledge or technological progress will lead to a...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

This much we know

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This morning the President participated in the National Prayer Breakfast and delivered some remarks , including these: There is no doubt ...

Slogans

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Via First Things , inspired by the atheist bus slogans in London, a "Bus slogan generator" that may inspire you to develop your o...

Something or other, somehow

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Fred Sanders at The Scriptorium Daily “Christ did something or other, which, somehow or other, had some connexion or other with salvation.” ...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake."

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Christianity Today reports on a study of the persecution of believers in the world today: Open Doors has released its list of countries wh...
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Our Flag

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Several years ago I was part of an exchange with secondary teachers from Japan. The Japanese teachers spent some time with us in Madison and...
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Accompanists to the congregation's praise

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John Stackhouse writes a "Memo to Worship Bands" at Christianity Today including "five...reasons to turn it down a notch....

Hollow at the core

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Kevin DeYoung, co-author of Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be , and pastor at the University Reformed Church in East La...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Lincoln in context

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This month I will be among the many who celebrate the two hundredth birthday of our greatest President. In "Lincoln the Great, Though ...
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