One Eternal Day

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

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Goodness

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Like David Downing I resisted reading The Lord of the Rings simply because all of my friends were recommending it. Finally, on a family vac...

All Saints

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Almighty God, who hast knit together Thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of Thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

All Hallows' Eve

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Re-posted from last year: As Halloween approaches it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has alread...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

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C.E. Hill, in Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy , responds to those who argue that what we think of as orthodox Ch...

The priesthood of all believers

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As we approach Reformation Day Peter J. Leithart corrects a misunderstanding of one of its central distinctives: This weekend, Protest...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

The stranger who sojourns among you

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Benedict XVI, in a message prepared for the "World Day of Migrants and Refugees" : .... John Paul II, on the occasion of this sam...

Politics and the pulpit

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I think that partisan politics should ordinarily be absent from the pulpit. Liberals have typically been rather vehement and dogmatic on th...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Relentless pessimism and incurable optimism

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Canadian Evangelical academic and author , Dr. Craig Carter, who blogs at " The Politics of the Cross Resurrected ," explains in ...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Sherlock

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Lars Walker was apprehensive about the new Mystery Masterpiece series, Sherlock , as was I for the same reasons. But he enjoyed it, and so d...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Public praying

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Tim Keller offers some good advice about "How to Pray Better in Public and in Private, Too" : Years ago when I wanted to beco...

Kýrie, eléison

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At The Internet Monk , on the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18:9-14): ...[T]he righteous look down on sinners and than...
Friday, October 22, 2010

The renewing of our minds

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Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, and co-author of [among others] Why We're Not Emergent By...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

"Without our aid He did us make"

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"All People That on Earth Do Dwell" is, one authority states, "the earliest hymn written in the English language which is st...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

What must be done.

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Via Mike Gray at The American Culture , a fable by Robert Louis Stevenson: Four reformers met under a bramble bush. They were all agree...

Liberty and the rule of law

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Gene Edward Veith, in "Freedom and Government," uses a great film directed by John Ford to explain one reason why conservatives a...
Monday, October 18, 2010

The best Protestant colleges

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First Things has placed online its ratings of the top colleges in America for Christian students based, as they write, on extensive resea...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

"Far over the misty mountains..."

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Variety reports "'The Hobbit' pics to shoot in February." But we'll have to wait until 2012, — and in 3D?! New Lin...

American politics and Israel

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Walter Russell Mead, in "The Problem With J Street," explains why the current manifestation of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory is ...
Friday, October 15, 2010

"Without a 'commander,' there really can’t be any commandments."

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David B. Hart, in "The Desirist’s Unsatisfiable Desires" finds that Joel Marks, in his “An Amoral Manifesto,” is admirably hone...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

When words assault

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Hadley Arkes explains how the Supreme Court went astray in its interpretation of the First Amendment in the 1970s [read it all here ]: In ...
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