One Eternal Day

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

Monday, January 11, 2010

Religious liberty in a liberal democracy

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The dispute over Brit Hume's recommendation to Tiger Woods has inspired some good commentary about the nature of religious liberty in ou...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

"Lord, have mercy"

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From Alan Jacobs in "Man of Sorrows: Samuel Johnson and the power of sympathy" : .... Few people need the consolation of Christia...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Anthropomorphism

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The cover article in Time , September 8, 1947, was about C.S. Lewis, and it remains a very informative article. I have discovered that it w...
Friday, January 8, 2010

A strange view of pluralism

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In his column at the Washington Post , Michael Gerson enters into the discussion about Brit Hume's offense against liberal sensibility....
Thursday, January 7, 2010

A fleeting glimpse of Joy

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Tonight I once again watched the film of C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . Lewis and Tolkien were very good friends. ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

When tolerance isn't

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This is a pretty common bumper sticker around here: Wiser Time : You’ve seen these, right? They make me mad. Why? Because they don’t real...
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Infantile happy talk

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"That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleas...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

He can't say that!

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Mollie Hemingway at GetReligion.org posts about the splenetic media reaction to Brit Hume's recommendation that Tiger Woods ought to co...

Set your minds on the Spirit

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Trevin Wax interviews N.T. Wright about his new book, After You Believe , including this about "being true to oneself": N.T. Wri...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Doubt

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Nathan Martin has posted the third, and last, portion of his interview with Os Guinness. I like this quotation from Guinness: .... I met s...

Music as politics

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I graduated from high school in 1964. The music I bought and played obsessively was "folk music" by groups like the Kingston Trio...
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

"Mere Christianity" Christians

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Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk asked his readers to discuss whether "'Mere Christianity Christians,' i.e. Christians who empha...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

"Yet will I trust in Him"

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Via Jared Wilson's The Gospel-Driven Church , a quotation from David Brainerd's journal: I am the subject of depressions of spirit s...

Government of the people, by the people and for the people

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One of the lessons of modern history is that democratic nations seldom (almost never) engage in war with one another . The prospect of peac...
Friday, January 1, 2010

Unto the least of these

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St. Augustine warned Christians against becoming so attached to a particular interpretation of Genesis that, if that interpretation is disc...

"If there were enough like him..."

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The scrollwork along the edge of the porch roof was wet with the fog. The fog dripped from the Monterey cypresses that shadowed off into ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

"Brilliant" films

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Nile Gardiner of the Telegraph nominates "The Top 10 Conservative Movies of the Last Decade." I've seen almost all of them ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The symbolism of the pulpit

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The Wittenberg Door regrets "The Loss of Symbolism," specifically what seems an aversion to the pulpit, which the pastor once as...
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"Shallow and trendy and transient"

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Nathan Martin at Evangel has transcribed an interview he did with Os Guinness and titles it "Where Have All the Evangelicals Gone?...
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Bible reading with discipline and grace

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Justin Taylor has several links up today about Bible study. One of them takes us to ten ESV Bible Reading Plans including a variety of w...
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