One Eternal Day

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

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Have mercy...

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Cornelius Plantinga recently criticized Evangelical worship because, he says, it neglects sin: .... Anglicans, Catholics and Lutherans ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

"Who could doubt...he had a Soul"

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From the time I entered 1 st grade until we moved while I was in 4 th we lived in a house rented from a Miss Kidder who had been one of Da...

"He was put into a pie..."

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My explorations of the free — because copyright has expired — ebooks at ManyBooks.net continue to find treasures: this time the books of Be...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

A Baptist church that's a little different

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My denomination has a descriptive tract titled " A Baptist Church With a Difference ." Baptists who worship on the seventh day Sa...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Liberty of conscience

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Thomas Kidd is a historian particularly interested in the views of the Founders about religion and its relation to the state. Here he addre...

When you are on the wrong side of history

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Philip Jenkins, from a 2004 review of a book about those in the church who strove to be up-to-date with the most recent scientific consens...
Friday, March 21, 2014

"Living inside-out"

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In Living Inside-Out" Wesley J. Smith describes an ancient approach to living in society the re-discovery of which has allowed him to...

In the beginning...

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I am generally disinclined to engage debates about origins either with believers or with non-believers since, it seems to me, there are far...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

"Mentally fragile and morally feeble"

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I'm not sure how any real classroom debate or discussion of any controversial subject could possibly take place in the environment Denn...

To be found doing our duty...

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On a city bus returning from school some years ago I was approached by a man who wanted to discuss the end times — to convince me of the ur...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"Ain’t No Grave....

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Via Lagniappe - Brother Claude Ely - Mere Comments
Monday, March 17, 2014

The quest for community

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Radical individualism and an omnipotent state are not enemies but, rather, the former leads inevitably to the latter. Robert Nisbet made t...

More humane by comparison

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Jackson Lears, reviewing Doris Kearns Goodwin's most recent book , finds it "thoroughly mediocre," adding later "She pro...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Today in Madison

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A very good day for walking in Madison: temperatures in the upper 40s and sunny. My destination was the breakwater at the Tenney Park L...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wisconsin Veterans Museum

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I just renewed my membership in the foundation that supports the Wisconsin Veterans Museum , one of the fine state-operated museums in Madis...

Not by chance

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A friend just noted at Facebook that she was looking through Ben Patterson's Waiting before passing it along to one of her friends. Th...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Because we have been saved

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Michael Kruger explains here several reasons why the book Luther described as an “an epistle of straw” is important to Christians. The sec...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Madison, March 10, 2014

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Today, in contrast to just about every day since the fall, is very nice: sunny, temperatures verging on +50 F. I decided to walk and did so...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Drawn into the bright shadow

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A site devoted to the works of George MacDonald describes that author's influence on C.S. Lewis: .... George MacDonald was at his ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

We will be okay

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Jared Wilson this morning reminds us that "You’re Going to Die (and So Might Your Dreams)" ... for you are dust, and to dust you s...
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"I thought we had an honest man upon the Road, and therefore should have his Company by and by." "If you thought not amiss" said Standfast "how happy am I, but if I be not as I should, I alone must bear it."
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