One Eternal Day

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

Monday, March 30, 2015

The first freedom

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The Religious Freedom and Restoration Act of 1993 was introduced in the House by then Representative Chuck Schumer where it passed without...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

The pride of the South

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Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears, When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years; Hardly could they be r...

The face of Jesus?

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From the Wikipedia article about "Relics associated with Jesus" : ...[T]he sixteenth-century Catholic theologian Erasmus wrote...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

It's not gonna rain forever

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You can stand alone Or with somebody else Or stand with all of us, together If you can believe In something bigger than yourself Yo...

"To be somewhere else"

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Via Anecdotal Evidence , quoting Guy Davenport on reading: I had never before felt how lucky and privileged I am, not so much for being ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Habit

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A review of Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives includes a number of quotations from Gretchen Rubin's book...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Priorities upside down

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Via Justin Taylor , Screwtape's advice applied to politics: "Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almo...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Fundamentally human

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Jay Nordlinger has discovered "Are Women Human?", an address "delivered to a Women's Society in 1938" by Dorothy L...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Congregational autonomy

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Albert Mohler, interviewed at WORLD , on the nature of "autonomy of the local church" in the Southern Baptist Convention. It seems...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

"Lacking...faith and incapable of living with doubt..."

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John Gray again , responding this time to Steven Pinker's confidence that things are getting better and better. Gray is dismissive of ...

The pathologizing of dissent

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A "phobia" is defined by Merriam-Webster as "an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object,...
Monday, March 16, 2015

What should you read before you die?

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From a comment on Ricochet : I recently developed a reading challenge for myself based on the authors and works found in a 1950s editi...

The problem atheism has with morality

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John Gray's "What scares the new atheists" has been getting much attention online since it was published two weeks ago. Gray...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Spring

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From Anecdotal Evidence: `The Pilgrim Steps of Spring' : .... What has come back to me is a Northerner’s sense of earning the right t...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"A plague of nonjudgmentalism"

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David Brooks today on "The Cost of Relativism" : .... The health of society is primarily determined by the habits and virtues ...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Poetic truth

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A while ago I quoted from Shelby Steele's Shame . The most recent issue of National Review contains Jay Nordlinger's review of th...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Defenders of the faith

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Christian History Magazine gives us an issue about "Seven Literary Sages." The seven are George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, J....
Friday, March 6, 2015

Bob Dylan, traditionalist

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Christopher Caldwell's "AWOL from the Summer of Love" is a review of Dylan's The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Ser...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

No moral truths

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If the Barna statistic is right, then the observations made by this philosopher in  "Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

"This is the Sabbath, and how will we spend it?"

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The newsletter of the church in which I grew up, the Milton, Wisconsin, Seventh Day Baptist Church , notes "The First Sabbath in Milto...
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