One Eternal Day

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

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Battle Hymn

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Msgr. Charles Pope, yesterday, on "The Biblical roots of the Battle Hymn of the Republic." The words of the hymn were composed ...

Milton College

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Main Hall, Milton College I graduated from Milton College, the college my father and my grandfather attended. Milton was one of the old...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

"Faster than a speeding bullet..."

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Was the first film Superman—the one in the 1940s—the best? Open Culture posts about "Nine Classic Superman Cartoons Restored and Now ...

Sola Scriptura

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Michael Patton finds that many of the early Church Fathers were pretty good on the authority of Scripture — for instance: Augustine (354...

"If there is a story there is a Story-teller"

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Trevin Wax interviews Kevin Belmonte , the author of A Year with G. K. Chesterton: 365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder , a collection of q...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Short sermons

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"Lincoln and Short Sermons" : One of the lines attributed to Lincoln that was included in the movie gives insight into his thou...

Are non-essentials unimportant?

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If a doctrine isn't essential to salvation, is it then unimportant? My denomination exists because of doctrines that aren't essent...
Monday, November 26, 2012

A Bible for Christmas?

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As Christmas approaches each of us is confronted with decisions. What should we give? For our Christian friends a Bible might be the answer...

Lord Peter

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Dorothy L. Sayers was not only a notable 20th century Christian apologist, she was also one of the most read English mystery writers of the...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Dickson McCunn is a hobbit

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"We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things!" Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit , C...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

November 22, 49 years ago

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Ordinarily one of the first things to occur to me on a November 22nd would have been the anniversary of C.S. Lewis's death. This year...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

"Now thank we all our God..."

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Freedom from Want , Norman Rockwell, 1943 Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, i...

"Our sincere and humble thanks"

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Via The Wittenberg Door , "George Washington’s Thanksgiving Prayer," based on a proclamation issued in 1789 : May we all unit...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"Extolling the loving care of our Heavenly Father"

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Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1895 : THANKSGIVING DAY 1895 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION ...

Politicians and the age of the earth

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Senator Rubio is being ridiculed and attacked as being "anti-science" because he equivocated when he was asked about the age of t...

Between law and free choice

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"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Paul W. Manuel

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Paul Manuel is a good friend and someone from whom I have learned much. For about ten years he, and wife Linda, attended the Madison S...

Seventh Day Baptists and Thaddeus Stevens

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An important actor in the struggle for the Thirteenth Amendment was Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, portrayed in the new Linc...

No substitute for Dad

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Margaret Wente at The Globe and Mail [Toronto] , is concerned about what boys need to be successful in school and in life. Whatever it is,...
Monday, November 19, 2012

"Come, let us bow down in worship"

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Scott Smith is the pastor of the Middle Island Seventh Day Baptist Church in West Virginia. His blog is called Faith Grip and it is consist...
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