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, January 31, 2013

"Teens should be learning from the people they are about to become"

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From an interview at Psychology Today with Robert Epstein, a psychologist, about his book The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the ...

An alternative reality

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Christopher Buckley explains why P.G. Wodehouse endures : .... Walk into any bookstore these days and one finds yard upon yard of Wodehou...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The perfidy of Christians

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Robert Ingersoll was perhaps the 19 th century's most well-known atheist. A new, approving, biography has just been published. Alan Ja...

Tweeting

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Matt Lewis, an early adopter, explains "Why I hate Twitter" : Twitter has become like high school, where the mean kids say ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Truth will out

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Another historical myth is exposed. History doesn't always fit neatly into a morality tale. John J. Miller describes the experience of...
Friday, January 25, 2013

When is a lie not a lie?

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From Kipling, via the current National Review : In The Second Jungle Book , Kipling describes a conversation between a jackal and a croc...

Over in the Territory

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I think I must have first read Charles Portis's True Grit not long after seeing the film version starring John Wayne as marshal. The C...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

By consenting adults

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Peter Berger writes about some of the religious liberty litigation here and in Europe and considers why those who want limit the role of re...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Chesterton and Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton Alan Jacobs refers to the famous debates between G.K. Chesterton and George B...
Monday, January 21, 2013

On natural law

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Martin Luther King, from the "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" : .... One may well ask, "How can you advocate breaking some ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Cathedral

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Based on his book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction , David Macaulay narrates: .... Using a combination of spectacular location ...

"The man without a moral code...is free from moral problems."

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Yesterday I was reminded of the C.S. Lewis essays in Christian Reflections , pulled it off the shelf for the first time in years, and am co...
Friday, January 18, 2013

History or "picture truths"?

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Invited by a friend, C.S. Lewis delivered "Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism" before the students of a theological school. ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Free will

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Alvin Plantinga isn't impressed by Sam Harris's argument that free will is an illusion and his review of the book is very interest...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty

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Zero Dark Thirty , which I haven't seen yet, is here reviewed by Paul D. Miller who begins by describing why the film means more to him...

"Spiritual" but not religious

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I know Christians who object to being called "religious" based on their understanding of the meaning of that word. If I accepted ...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

1066 and much more

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This is for the Anglophiles among us and particularly for those who enjoy British history. Netflix provides access to many documentaries amo...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Praise God

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Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" [Listen to the profane version, but then read]: Marvin Olasky...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom"

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There is plenty of evidence in scripture that God is not willing to tolerate anything or everything we think or do, but the fear of God als...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Former people

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Reviewing a new book by a former communist, John Gray wonders why it is that some liberals continue to envision Marxism-Leninism as a wor...
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