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, December 6, 2010

“Ye shall be as gods”

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Via David Limbaugh at Ricochet.com , Whittaker Chambers in Witness on the appeal communism then had; a warning that  applies equally to eve...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

"There I have another name"

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Later this week the third film in the Chronicles of Narnia series will appear in American theaters. This review in World Magazine by Meg...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Advent II: Blessed Hope

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Blessed Lord, which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; grant us that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark,...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

"With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence"

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One of the characteristics of the debate about the appropriate relationship between church and state has been the selective use of history i...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"When I Was Sinkin' Down..."

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David Neff at Christianity Today reviewing a history of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, "Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A tame religion

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And the sight of the glory of the L ORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. (Ex 24:17,...

Those who do not remember

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An explanation of the value of studying the humanities, not to learn some skill, or for some immediate practical gain, but for the sake of ...
Monday, November 29, 2010

"I give you the example of spittoons"

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PJ O’Rourke selects the top five books of political satire for FiveBooks and is interviewed about each of them. If you know PJ O'Rou...

The story of good and evil

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I just got Criterion's Blu-ray edition of The Night of the Hunter — one of my favorite films. It is about menacing evil and human falli...

Knowing what we profess

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Rod Dreher, reviewing a new book, American Grace , about the state of American religious life: .... The good news is that we Americans of ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Progress

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The inclination to force people to behave in ways that will be good for them is hardly limited to any one point on the ideological spectrum...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Advent I: Sleeper awake!

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Almighty God, give us grace, that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

All praise and thanks...

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  Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothe...
Monday, November 22, 2010

And yet...joy

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Mike Potemra visits a remarkable urban church and is greatly impressed : Not enough good things can be said about the ministry of Redeemer...

"Men must endure their going hence"

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November 22, 1963 was the day of my Grandmother Skaggs's funeral. The family was gathered in my parents' house preparing to go to th...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Christian calendar

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Next Sunday is the first in Advent and the beginning of the "Church Year" for those worship traditions guided by it. In a post ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

False liberty of thought

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Via Insight Scoop , John Henry Newman on theological liberalism: Whenever men are able to act at all, there is the chance of extreme and in...

Putting the clock back

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Can the clock be turned back? Can social disintegration be reversed? When it seems that things are falling apart, that "the center cann...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Intellectual triviality and sheer boredom

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I received what was known as a "liberal arts" education. That meant that in addition to the courses in my major and minor I was re...

A "niceness" problem?

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Kevin DeYoung is analyzing his own denominational tradition, but I'm inclined to think this observation, at least, might also apply to ...
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