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, August 31, 2015

The true rebels

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David French  thinks that MTV has been boring us for 30 Years : The great, ongoing con of the rock world is how it’s sold “rebellion” an...
Friday, August 28, 2015

"Some will depart...."

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Peter Leithart reviews Phil Zuckerman's Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion in which the author "details the reasons peo...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Restore Thou those who are penitent

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From Trevin Wax on "The Mark of Christianity That is Disappearing from Our Worship" : .... I’m speaking, of course, about conf...
Monday, August 24, 2015

First things first

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Having previously considered "The Problem With Liberalism," J. Budziszewski now addresses "The Problem With Conservatism....
Friday, August 21, 2015

“A litigious and wrangling disposition”

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Kevin DeYoung has been working on a dissertation this summer. This morning, from it, he posts about John Witherspoon (pastor, college pres...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Amy Kass, 1940-2015, RIP

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Bill Kristol notes the death of Amy Apfel Kass last night and writes of her: A legendary teacher at the University of Chicago and a ver...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The past is prologue

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Wilfred M. McClay is a history professor who also served on the National Council on the Humanities. His PhD was from Johns Hopkins. In th...

"Cast me not off in the time of old age"

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Called to my attention by a Facebook friend: "Identity Is Lost Without A Moral Compass" . This may explain why, although suffering...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Daily prayer

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Found in my library this afternoon: The Book of Daily Prayer compiled by Robert E. Webber and published in 1993. I think it was a Christ...
Monday, August 17, 2015

"Thirty young women fled..."

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A reference in The Weekly Standard to an interview with Christina Hoff Sommers sent me to the full interview on YouTube . Sommers is a def...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

"And give us, we pray..."

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New to me: Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust, ever child-like, no cares could destroy, Be there at our wakin...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

The sure provisions of my God

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Pastor Herb Saunders led worship this morning for the Madison Seventh Day Baptist Church . Worship and the sermon were both based on the 23...

Ed Psych

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Robert Conquest died on August 3 rd . He was a poet and historian of some note . A recent Weekly Standard provided this verse from one of ...

"The flight to safety"

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Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is a...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

"Embrace the freakishness"

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Via Rod Dreher , a link to 'The Freakishness of Christianity: What would the American culture wars look like if they were less about “v...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Worship should be about delight in Him

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Re-posted: Jason Helopoulos on "One Truth That Changes Worship" : .... The truth is this: Worship is not so much about what ...

Hayek, right and wrong

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Writing in the New Statesman , John Gray on what Friedrich Hayek got right and what he got wrong : .... Having abandoned his youthful ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

"And the war came."

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July seems to be my month for reading history. I just ordered Mark Tooley's The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 ...
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"In every circumstance of life..."

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Patrick Kurp, in "The Daily Texture of Our Lives," refers to Anthony Hecht's observation that W.H. Auden had a “remarkable r...

"Oxford Disneyland"

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Reviewing Philip and Carol Zaleski's The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, C...
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