One Eternal Day

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

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

"Preach the gospel at all times...."

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Aaron Rogers, asked in a radio interview how, given the controversy over Tim Tebow, he feels about publicly sharing his faith: "...

The pagan origin of Christmas?

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As we begin Advent it seemed to me appropriate to once again remind my Christian friends that there is nothing wrong with celebrating the S...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The unfortunate influence of John Stuart Mill

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Roger Kimball contends that John Stuart Mill's On Liberty won the war of public opinion even though it had been effectively refuted b...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Danger signs

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Danger signs in church leadership. Each point is elaborated in the original post : One or two of these in isolated instances are likely hand...

"And lo...."

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Even in the '60s the networks were completely clueless about the American people. From "The Gospel According to Peanuts " : .....
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

How do we know what we know?

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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexis...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Truer truth

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Peter Wehner on why the response to Penn State demonstrates the reality of moral law: ...[T]he near-universal condemnation toward Penn...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A "thinking worshiper"

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On November 22, 1963 C.S. Lewis died, the news of his death entirely overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy that same day. J...

"Emotion, rhetorical persuasion, and social pressure"

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Jonathan Leeman doesn't do altar calls and explains why not and what he does instead: ...[W]hy wouldn't I give an altar call? In sh...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Defending — not apologizing for — the faith once given

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C Michael Patton explains why, even given C.S. Lewis's departures from what is considered normative evangelical theology, we are incline...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Climate does change

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In about 2005 the advocates of a radical response to "global warming" apparently decided that talking about "climate change...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Cheerful plagiarism

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It would appear that one of my favorite books was largely plagiarized and, moreover, the plagiarist, Robert Louis Stevenson, admitted it....
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"Scum of the earth"

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From National Geographic 's contribution to the celebration of the King James Version of the Bible: .... Most of us might think we ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Reading books on a screen

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Google Books is a project of Google involving the scanning of entire libraries of books and then making them available online. It is extra...
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Avoiding responsibility

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In a very good column, "Let’s All Feel Superior," prompted by many of the responses to the Penn State crimes, David Brooks wonder...
Monday, November 14, 2011

This day...

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Via The Christian Post , John Stott's Daily Prayer : Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence and please you ...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Feeling good rather than doing good

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Feeling good about what you are doing is no substitute for actually doing good. In "Wasted Charity," Amy Sherman reviews Toxic...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Created equal?

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David Brooks explains when it's socially acceptable for Americans to express superiority over others: .... Academic inequality is s...

November 11, 1918

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Child abuse and the church

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Albert Mohler, writing about the appalling Penn State scandal , draws the appropriate lesson for churches: .... What about churches, Chri...
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