One Eternal Day

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

Sunday, November 29, 2015

"Children's books"

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On the anniversary of C.S. Lewis's birth: "It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoym...
Friday, November 27, 2015

"By ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humor"

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In "Officer Friendly is Dead" someone experienced in law enforcement writes about what he views as a bad turn that policing has ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

"All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given..."

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Freedom from Want , Norman Rockwell, 1943  Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

"A day of public thanksgiving and prayer"

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Via The Daily Caller : Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789 By the President of t...

"Come, ye thankful people come..."

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Hymnary.org [a great site for anyone who loves hymns] has scanned and made available every hymn from The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcop...

"He has not promised us our best life now"

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Reposted from 2012: From a Christianity Today interview with Eric Bargerhuff, the author of The Most Misused Verses in the Bible : Ar...

Gratitude

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From Jonathan Last's "Gratitude: The Parent of All Other Virtues" : .... You need not believe in God to pursue the virtues (th...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

"A day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father"

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President Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation , given on October 3, 1863, declaring a day of thanksgiving on "the last Thu...
Monday, November 23, 2015

"Giving thanks always and for everything"

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Arthur Brooks offers advice, and not just for Thanksgiving, "Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier." : .... For many...

"Golden Age" murder

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Suzannah Rowntree at Vintage Novels likes The Floating Admiral , a project of the Detection Club : I thought The Detection Club was th...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Fifty-two years ago...

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Fifty-two years ago today C.S. Lewis died. That was the same day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lewis's death was less remarked that...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

"If God does not exist...."

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Guillaume Bignon, Frenchman, ex-atheist, theologian, argues that "only God can make sense of the evil in Paris" : .... The way...

A plea

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God be in my head, And in my understanding; God be in mine eyes, And in my looking; God be in my mouth, And in my speaking; God be...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Evangelical by belief

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Christianity Today reports on a new survey attempting to define "evangelical" by doctrine rather than by sociological criteria o...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

"Men without chests"

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For its 60 th anniversary issue National Review asked various of its supporters and contributors to indicate a book "that shaped our...

On the anniversary

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Moral dependency

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From an Interview with Jonathan Haidt, "The Revenge of the Coddled" : .... The great majority of people over 35 seem to dislik...

"A thrilling cause that promises glory and esteem"

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From The Guardian , Scott Atran, an anthropologist who has specialized in the study of terrorism, on the strategy and appeal of ISIS: ....
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Coffee

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Via Instapundit , a report on a study : "In our study, we found people who drank three to five cups of coffee per day had about a...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

The good of humanity

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Via Patrick Kurp Robert Conquest on a mindset relevant to both religious and secular fanatics: The revolutionary believed it to be in t...
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