One Eternal Day

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

Friday, October 31, 2014

Modern virtues

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From Jonathan Last's introduction to The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell : ...

By grace alone

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Today is Reformation Day, the anniversary of the day Martin Luther posted his challenge to debate ninety-five theses on the door of All Sa...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Wishing you a fun Halloween

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From 2011. The Internet Monk re-posts Michael Spencer's annual "Halloween Rant." I didn't grow up in a fundamentalist ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Heresy

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Yesterday a Christianity Today report about a new LifeWay poll was titled "Poll Finds Evangelicals’ Favorite Heresies." Today T...

No fear!

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I've posted this in years past as Halloween has approached. As Halloween approaches it is useful for the more excitable among us to b...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Good news

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Will McDavid at Mockingbird offers more precise understandings of "Seven Common Theology Phrases That Should Be Used More Precisely...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Courage

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According to Western tradition : "...the seven Christian virtues or heavenly virtues refers to the union of two sets of virtues. Th...

Contemporary worship music

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At the beginning of "The Imminent Decline of Contemporary Worship Music: Eight Reasons" T. David Gordon writes "by imminent...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

"We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord"

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The quotation in the heading is, of course, from the speech Theodore Roosevelt delivered accepting the Presidential nomination of the Progr...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Ellen Harmon White

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An interesting review of a book about an interesting person. Because Seventh-day Adventists are a much larger seventh-day Sabbath observi...
Friday, October 24, 2014

A list

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The Church Times ,"the world's leading Anglican newspaper," provides a selection of the "100 best Christian books."...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Encroaching on territory not its own"

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An essay, "Evolution and Ethics, Revisited," by the always worth reading Gertrude Himmelfarb, sends me to John Henry Newman...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

And no one cares

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From Ray Ortlund today, "How blessed are those who care" : click to enlarge In Breughel’s Icarus...how everything turns a...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Fury

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There are fine films that I have no need to watch more than once. They are films like Schindler's List that are well made and convey s...

"Subject to the governing authorities"

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Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.  For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.  Whosoever...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

In loco parentis

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Colleges used to be expected to act in loco parentis , that is "in place of the parent" with respect to the students on that camp...
Monday, October 13, 2014

The wrong discoverer?

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On Columbus Day, via Instapundit , from 2002, "Celebrating Wrong Italian?" : .... I do not particularly sympathize with the de...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Right brain and left brain

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The assumption that "the science is settled" has often been shown wrong. (e.g. Think of Galileo's experience contra the scie...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Brainstorming

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In the current Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson on a phenomenon that not only affected "corporate and academic culture" but also ...

"The mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his church"

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Last weekend the North Central Association of Seventh Day Baptists annual sessions were held at the Albion Seventh Day Baptist Church in A...
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