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 3, 2011

Gay marriage?

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Via Insight Scoop , a link to an article from the Winter issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy , "What is Marriage?...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Christmas I: Circumcise our hearts

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Almighty God, which madest Thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man; Grant us the true circumcision of Thy Spirit,...
Friday, December 31, 2010

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot..."

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne* ? For auld ...

Evangelicals and the gospel

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"Among the Evangelicals" by Timothy Beal in The Chronicle Review describes the findings of a variety of academic studies. A coup...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

"Not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace"

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In "Narrative and the Grace of God" Stanley Fish argues that the Coen brothers new True Grit is profoundly religious, as was the...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A destructive lifestyle choice

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In "Atheism Kills" Walter Russell Mead notes that it is apparently not just atheist regimes that result in great loss of life. At...
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"No man is an island..."

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With respect to economics and many aspects of government regulation of human behavior my inclinations — like those of most conservatives — t...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

"Let no tongue on earth be silent"

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Of the Father’s love begotten, ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, Of the things that are, th...
Friday, December 24, 2010

This single Truth

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No love that in a family dwells, No caroling in frosty air, Nor all the steeple-shaking bells Can with this single Truth compare — Th...

Christmas Day

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ALMIGHTY GOD, which hast given us Thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon Him, and this day to be born of a pure virgin; Grant that we...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

In the bleak midwinter

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Andrew McGowan, at Biblical Archaeology Review explains "How December 25 Became Christmas" and it probably had nothing to do wit...

God in man

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

"For to do us sinners good"

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The holly and the ivy, When they are both full grown Of all the trees that are in the wood, The holly bears the crown. The holly bears a...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"An occasion for merry-making"

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Via The Inklings , C.S. Lewis on Christmas: Three things go by the name of Christmas. One is a religious festival. This is important and ...

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb..."

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Lars Walker liked the film version of Voyage of the Dawn Treader very much: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the novel) begins with p...
Monday, December 20, 2010

"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! "

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The Fighting Temeraire Bernard Cornwell, one of my favorite historical novelists, reviews a book about a distinguished warship junked ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

"Thou who wast rich..."

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Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour, All for love's sake becamest poor; Thrones for a manger didst surrender, Sapphire-paved c...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Advent IV: Run the race

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Lord raise up (we pray Thee) Thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us; that whereas, through our sins and wickedness, w...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Wimsey

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I spent just about every evening for the last ten days or so watching the DVDs of the The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries and thoroughly enjoy...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

White shores and a far green country

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Tim Keller in " The Lord of the Rings and Redemptive Art " argues that the book is profoundly Christian even though "religi...
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