One Eternal Day

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

Friday, March 2, 2012

Sound theology

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Via By Every Word :

The gospel according to St Jack

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The current issue issue of National Review notes that "Santorum continued his sometime role of making perfectly defensible views seem...

The wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes

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Edd McCracken gives us "Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else" (but I found the cartoon). For instance: O...

"Moved to heartier song...in the hands of a good organist"

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Kevin DeYoung, in "Don’t Ditch the Organ," excerpts a couple of paragraphs by Harold Best, once Dean of the Conservatory of Music...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

"Be ye constant"

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Today is St David's Day. It is the national day of Wales, the country from whence came some of my ancestors. Wikipedia explains who the...

The intolerance of tolerance

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I believe certain pastors in our neighbor to the north have already gotten in trouble with their government for teaching frankly about sin. ...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Correcting the history books

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Perhaps the period from 500 to 1500 AD was more civilized — in at least a few respects — than the Renaissance that followed. Jill Harness co...

After-birth abortion

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"[O]nce we discard the Christian principle of inherent dignity of humans, anything we decide to do to an infant becomes 'ethically ...

To keep it holy

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Jonathan Tobin calls our attention to a story of particular interest to Sabbatarians: .... The Robert M. Beren Academy had won a chance to...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Thought crimes

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Christopher Caldwell, reviewing God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy , observes that modern ...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Dad

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This would have been my father's 100th birthday. From the day after his funeral: Dad’s funeral was yesterday, Monday, December 29, a...

True faith transforms

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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects — with their Christianity la...

Learning virtue from Jane Austen

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An anonymous philosopher — he assures us he is one (a philosopher) — believes Jane Austen is worth reading as a moral philosopher quite a...

Ben Hur

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The "50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition" of Ben-Hur is available today only from Amazon at 55% off, $28.99. Not...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Why should the baby live?

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Wesley J. Smith calls attention to this confusion about what is an "actual person" at the Journal of Medical Ethics : Abortion is...
Friday, February 24, 2012

But with tolerance and understanding

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Wolfhart Pannenberg, a rather prominent Lutheran theologian, explains why the church takes the position it does with respect to homosexua...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Yet I will rejoice

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Though the fig tree should not blossom,     nor fruit be on the vines,   the produce of the olive fail     and the fields yield no food,   ...

What is truth?

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From an article at Smithsonian Magazine about Errol Morris: .... If there is one subtext to all of Morris’ subsequent films and writin...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

It isn't about contraception

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It is about freedom of conscience. Peter Berger : ....[L]et me offer a disclosure: I find the Catholic position on contraception thunderou...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

If the leaders are the center of attention, it isn't worship

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James K.A. Smith, a philosophy prof at Calvin College, writes "An Open Letter to Praise Bands." Read him carefully. He isn't ...
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