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, March 31, 2019

"Prone to wander..."

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Jonathan Aigner has been posting hymns for each Sunday in Lent. Today he chose "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing." It's a g...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Joy

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The author of my newly acquired book about C.S. Lewis keeps quoting from his poems. It has been a very long time since I opened Poems , co...

Why?

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An interesting response to a New York Times op-ed : “Why is there anything rather than nothing?” Accept the question as a koan, not a ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Wishing the worst

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Always relevant, but this week especially so: .... Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that someth...
Monday, March 25, 2019

A short introduction

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C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como from Oxford University Press just arrived in the mail. I'm looking forward to enjoy...

"All get what they want; they do not always like it."

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A nice discovery this morning. This person has re-read all of the The Chronicles of Narnia in publication order (the correct order) and, i...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

"Even darkness must pass"

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Sam: It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you d...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Personal libraries

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"National Review asked some writers and collectors to describe their personal libraries ." Excerpts from some of the responses: ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Bach

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On the 334 th anniversary of his birth, Bach:Cantata No 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," (28 min.): Happy I, who ha...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Who created God?

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After I posted about John Lennox the other day a friend mentioned that he is on YouTube. Today HillFaith linked to this Lennox video:
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

The Stone Table

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A new, but unauthorised, Narnia novel we may never get to read: Polly Plummer and Digory Kirke Francis Spufford has taken a break f...
Monday, March 18, 2019

"The end product of a blind, unguided process"

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I don't believe I'd ever heard of this apologist. From "John Lennox: Oxford Math Professor Defends Christianity" : ....
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Disagreeing better

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From a review of Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt , by Arthur Brooks: .... Brooks ar...

"In my end..."

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Just discovered, T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets : extracts from "East Coker," read by Jeremy Irons (12 minutes). YouTube has m...

"I bind unto myself..."

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The Celtic poem known as St. Patrick's Breastplate: I bind unto myself today  The strong Name of the Trinity,  By invocation o...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Lecture

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A high school history and psychology teacher writes "In Defense of Lecture in the Classroom." By doing so he is defending the me...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

More Moto

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Today I acquired Mr. Moto's Three Aces , a 1956 book club omnibus containing three of the pre-WWII books. From the fly-leaf: THANK...

Socialism

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Commenting on the absurdity of a New York magazine recommended list of books "to understand socialism," Steven Hayward suggest...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Shame

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I've been missing Kevin DeYoung since his move and new responsibilities. But here he is: "We Are Supposed to Feel Bad About Stuff...

Orthodox?

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In "Why J. Gresham Machen Didn’t Like the Term ‘Evangelical’," Thomas Kidd quotes from Machen's “What Is Orthodoxy?” (1935)...
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