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, August 12, 2010

Must we choose?

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Christopher Benson is engaged in an exchange at Evangel about what Christians must or needn't believe about evolution. Yesterday he prov...

Tom and Huck today

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According to Anne Applebaum today Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn would be in Special Ed, probably medicated. ...[T]ry, if you can, to strip...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

"Greater love hath no man..."

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Both of my parents suffered from dementia as they grew old, and my mother, especially, failed to recognize people she had known for years. ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

"Hollow hearts and depraved sensibilities"

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Otto Penzler, who is a genuine authority on crime fiction, writes about why one genre differs from another in "Noir Fiction Is About Lo...

The Library of Historical Apologetics

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Several sites call attention to the "Library of Historical Apologetics," a new online resource "Rediscovering Forgotten Def...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Solid ground

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Rod Dreyer is increasingly pessimistic about the future of Christianity in America, and this is why: .... Three words: Moralistic Therapeu...

"If they find a Christian mistaken..."

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Via Christopher Benson at Evangel, some very good advice from long ago, "What would Augustine say about creationists and ID supporters?...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Orwell would understand

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Adam Freedman thinks most of the discussion about the recent gay marriage decision misses the point. He explains what Perry v. Schwarzeneg...

Faith matters more than feelings

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Touchstone provides from its archives a 2007 essay by N.T. Wright evaluating C.S. Lewis as an apologist with particular reference to Mer...
Friday, August 6, 2010

1939-1943

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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 Great color pictures from an America largely gone: Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

On the anniversary of Hiroshima

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On the anniversary of Hiroshima Richard Fernandez reminds us that there were greater losses of civilian life in World War II — a war in whi...

Entertaining drama

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Andrew Klavan reconsidered The Tudors and decided that it was a very good series after all: .... I found myself discussing the events ...

Politicized religion

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James Bowman notes an interesting juxtaposition. On the same day that The New York Times reports on, analyzes and strongly editorialize...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

C.S. Lewis, Screwtape, and the Simpsons?!

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An interesting C.S. Lewis site, currently serving up snippits from The Screwtape Letters [with Homer - not the Greek poet]: Mere C.S. Lewi...
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Dissenter, novelist and spy

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Ian Clary reviews a biography, Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures , about someone of whom I knew little beyond R...

Judicial arrogance

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John Yoo, who opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment and who would support a California law permitting gay marriage, explains why Judge Wa...

Rejecting dogmatism?

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Those of us who are Christians of an orthodox bent and who have similarly convicted friends in secular colleges have heard stories like thi...

Too free

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Reviewing In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov, Tim Black reminds us of certain principles liberals [and most conservatives...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Potter

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Although S.M. Hutchens agrees that there are objectionable things in the Harry Potter books, he argues that they are more likely to do g...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Erotic obsessions

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Newman's Unquiet Grave by John Cornwell, about the soon-to-be-beatified John Henry Newman, reviewed by Anthony Kenny , describes one ...
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