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, July 9, 2012

Jesus existed

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Craig Keener at Huffington Post attempts to explain to—as the comments demonstrate—a rather difficult readership, what most scholars take ...

Moderates are miserable

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Arthur C. Brooks, yesterday in The New York Times , on the apparent fact that "Conservatives Are Happier, and Extremists Are Happiest o...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Having a lot to lose

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A husband and father, worried that his very young daughter might be seriously ill, tells his wife that he isn't sure he could handle it...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

"Those Frenchies seek him everywhere"

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Every summer National Review invites its editors and contributors to suggest good books for summer reading. There are a lot of interesting...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Sacrifice

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Calvin Coolidge was, in fact, born on the 4th of July. This is from a speech he delivered on Bunker Hill Day in 1918 in the final year of ...

A Seventh Day Baptist and Independence

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On Independence Day it is particularly appropriate for Seventh Day Baptists to remember Governor Samuel Ward of Rhode Island. Samuel War...

Suffer not our trust in Thee to fail...

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From The Book of Common Prayer (1928), a good prayer for Independence Day: ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our herita...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith, 1926-2012, RIP

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From WORLD magazine : .... The Andy Griffith Show was a loving portrait of the town where few grew up but many wished they did—a place whe...

Worship "spaces"

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David Greusel, the architect who designed PNC Park, where the Pittsburgh Pirates play, is a Christian with concern about the direction chur...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Sherlock Holmes and Scripture

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Eric McKiddie, a pastor in Wheaton Illinois, read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes last summer and compiled ten quotations he found relev...

"Standing back from life and seeing it whole"

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Tim Kreider's "The 'Busy' Trap" isn't about religion or the Christian life but some of what he writes is certain...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Perfect worship

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Via By Every Word "The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God." — ...

Waterfox

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I've been running the 64-bit version of Windows for several years and Firefox has been my preferred browser. Waterfox is a 64-bit build ...

"In your presence there is fullness of joy"

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The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; In the ...

"We have erred, and strayed..."

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Re-posted from September 28, 2007 because I just re-read it and it is very good: At Challies.com , a review of Respectable Sins , by Jerr...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Seven Days, July 1862

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Geoffrey Norman on "Seven Bloody Days," McClellan and the 1862 effort to capture the Confederate capitol, a frustrating and ulti...

Stand fast

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If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. [Isaiah 7:9, NIV] Robert Spencer : God said to Ahaz, "If y...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Mencken's dictionary

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Two of the reference books I acquired early and used often were books of quotations. They were useful, of course, but also fun just to ...

The mutual dependence of civil and religious liberty

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As we approach the Fourth, an interesting essay about the origins of American attitudes toward religious liberty. Joseph Loconte, on the ro...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Secret Knowledge

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Irenaeus [c130-c202] was particularly known as a proponent of orthodoxy and enemy of Gnosticism. In recounting his role, this article expla...
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