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, February 27, 2014

"It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves"

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On the occasion of Roger Scruton's seventieth birthday Brian Miller provides several quotations from his work, including this on the H...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Theology after Verdun

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After almost a century without a lengthy, devastating European war, came the Great War — The First World War — a war that still affects us....

"Ye are like unto whited sepulchres..."

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Via Justin Taylor : Boston College philosopher Peter Kreeft : The common, modern misunderstanding of hypocrisy [is] not practicing wh...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Cymru am byth (Wales forever)

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Every American knows that St Patrick's Day comes in March. Far fewer are aware of St David's Day (March 1), the national day of Wale...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The face of battle

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The current Weekly Standard contains "an appreciation" of John Keegan's books by Edwin Yoder. Keegan wrote military history ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Burke v Paine

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If you have any interest in political theory at all this should be of interest : Levin's book is The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thoma...

Confessing our sinfuness is not enough

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C.S. Lewis died in 1963. Not long before he gave an interview to Decision magazine, the magazine of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associa...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

"Trust me anyway"

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Via Elizabeth Scalia , Benedict XVI: The sum of human life does not strike a balance if we omit God; in that case, only contradictions r...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The problem of evil

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At a site I visit frequently one of the members questions the effectiveness of prayer : "I don't pray because of Pascal's wage...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Why do the wicked prosper?

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The second season of House of Cards became available on Netflix yesterday. It is certainly one of the best television dramas ( The British...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Inerrancy and the age of the earth

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C Michael Patton lists "Six Factors that Do Not Affect Inerrancy." His post attracted my attention because of a discussion sever...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Lincoln's birthday

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From last Feb 12: "...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall h...

"A brain like a peahen"

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Kevin DeYoung has been reading Wodehouse again: P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit [1954] – A sheer delight. To wit: “All ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Is atheism irrational?

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Alvin Plantinga, in an interview printed in the New York Times, argues that atheism is irrational . The entire interview is interesting. ...
Monday, February 10, 2014

"That Hideous Strength"

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Suzannah thinks That Hideous Strength is one of the best of C.S. Lewis's books and one that she might recommend first: ...[I]f there...

Hollow men

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From a critical review at The University Bookman of what looks to be an interesting book: The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Raffles

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E.W. Hornung was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law. He also ventured into fiction involving crime and detection but, unlike Sherlock...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

"These things I remember, as I pour out my soul..."

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Jared Wilson : It strikes me as I read through Psalm 42 — as I frequently do — how crucial memory is to the process of faith in the mid...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Good books

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Suzannah Rountree of "In Which I Read Vintage Novels" has created an index of all her reviews and essays organized alphabeti...
Friday, January 31, 2014

C.S. Lewis and politics

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Micah Watson, in an essay about C.S. Lewis and politics , reminds us that he wasn't particularly obsessed with current political events...
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