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, September 30, 2019

The mind of God

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Re-posted William Barclay: We have already seen that in Jesus we have seen the mind of God, and that mind is love. If then we say that ...

The limits of human judgment

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John Henry Newman: Whenever men are able to act at all, there is the chance of extreme and intemperate action; and therefore, when there is...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Old House of Fear

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A book I once owned but lost sometime along the way is about to be re-published . Russell Kirk was important to my political formation but ...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Mercy

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John Bunyan: Mercy is that by which we are pardoned, even all the falls, faults, failings and weaknesses, that attend us, and that we ar...

A myth become fact

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C.S. Lewis: I was by now too experienced in literary criticism to regard the Gospels as myths. They had not the mythical taste. And yet the...
Friday, September 27, 2019

"We meant to be free"

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From Justin Taylor on "Why Patriots Really Fought the American Revolution" : In 1843, a 21-year-old Dartmouth student na...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Throwing out the baby with the bathwater

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A few days ago Justin Taylor quoted Robert Alter on "Why Modern Bible Translations Should Stay in the King James Stream." Alter...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Presentism

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Patrick Kurp : Some of us find abundant wisdom in the past and blanket foolishness in the present. Others reverse the emphasis. The latt...

"The vernacular is the real test"

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From a good review of The Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case against Scientism : ...Aeschliman’s target is the reg...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

"A pearl of great price"

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Re-posted. Dorothy L. Sayers: "The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

More invigorated

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Patrick Kurp notes that "Dr. Johnson was born on this date, Sept. 18, in 1709." One of Samuel Johnson's prayers sixty years...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Words

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Joseph Pearce : ...[W]ords are never merely words but are the means by which we make sense of things. If we have fewer words we have few...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

"Humanely rather than instrumentally"

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In the Wall Street Journal , for those who love Jane Austin, a good reason : .... Lapses in civility happen in Jane Austen’s novels, but...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Not an uncertain mercy

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From Onsi Kamel in First Things , "Catholicism Made Me Protestant" : .... I will never forget the moment when, like Luther fiv...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Dignity

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Re-posted from 2009. Things have only deteriorated further since then. David Brooks goes "In Search of Dignity" and laments th...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Waiting in hope

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Yesterday our pastor's sermon was about the hope we have and the patience required as we wait. That reminded me of Ben Patterson's ...
Friday, September 6, 2019

"Salt is salt"

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I'm pretty limited as a cook. There are a few things I do well but since I'm almost always cooking for myself I like to keep things ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

"Smarter than we thought we were"

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Joseph Pearce on why C.S. Lewis is so convincing to many of us: Some time ago, during an interview, I was asked to encapsulate, in a so...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Labor Day

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On this Labor Day, I re-post part of a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers: "Why Work?" ( pdf ): I HAVE already, on a previous...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Four Loves

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Some time ago I posted a video of a "CSLewisDoodle" about "Bulverism." I've discovered that there are many such vi...
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