One Eternal Day

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

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

"Squishy evangelicalism"

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Kevin DeYoung has been thinking about "If We Believe All the Same Things, Why Do Our Churches Seem So Different?" and has come t...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Hating the sin while loving the sinner

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Anyone who has followed the debates online or off about gay marriage, or about the attitudes of Christians generally toward homosexuality, ...

"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild"?

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Michael J. Kruger, who is a New Testament professor, has watched a film that reminded him that Jesus was rather controversial: Not long ...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Psalm 34:8

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I was reminded by a friend today of a wonderful choral setting of Psalm 34:8, one of my favorite verses. Vaughan Williams' composition...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Another reading list

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Justin Taylor provides another reading list for young people, this one for the early grades , and promises to expand the list later. T...

Progress may mean turning back

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Conservative blogger John Hawkins counts down his choices for "The Top 25 C.S. Lewis Quotes." I might have chosen some of the sa...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Among the savages

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James Taranto comments on the discoveries of a Stanford anthropologist who has ventured out among her fellow citizens and returned to expl...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Galileo

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Tim O'Neill, who describes himself as "Atheist, Medievalist, Sceptic and amateur Historian" answers "What is the most mi...

The Christian novelist

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Several of the quotations among these "8 Quotes from Christian Authors about the Importance of Good Fiction" are from Flannery...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Prayer

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PRAYER Master, they say that when I seem To be in speech with you, Since you make no replies, it's all a dream —One talker ap...
Friday, May 4, 2012

All truth is God's truth

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Via Justin Taylor , R.C. Sproul on the age of the universe:
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Politics, the Bible, and public policy

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As any of my acquaintances could tell you, I have pretty strong political opinions. I believe my political views are consistent with — and ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The world beyond the world

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Peter Kreeft on why Heaven matters : What difference does Heaven make to earth, to now, to our lives? The answer to the question is onl...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Known only to their neighbors"

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Calvin Coolidge on his father: My father had qualities that were greater than any I possess. He was a man of untiring industry and great...

"Holy Mother State"

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Paul Ryan recently gave a speech at Georgetown attempting to explain his moral justification for the federal budgets he has proposed. His ...

Victims of Communism Day

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Some advocate that, just as we recognize the victims of fascism on Holocaust Memorial Day, the victims of Communism should also be remember...

Juvenile suspense

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I previously noted this review at Christianity Today of Andrew Klavan's Homelanders books: I shudder to think of all the books oc...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

"But like a child at home"

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The hymn site, Conjubilant with Song , notes that: ...[W]e're back again to Good Shepherd Sunday , celebrated in many churches on t...

The 50 best books for children?

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Yesterday I had a conversation before church with a grandparent about a very young grandson who has become an enthusiastic reader. A love o...
Monday, April 23, 2012

A bottle of port

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Via Elizabeth Scalia : C.S. Lewis. Nails it.
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