One Eternal Day

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

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Communism

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From David Pryce-Jones, an excerpt about one of the subjects of his new book: "Remembering Robert Conquest." Conquest was an ex-...

Simplicity rather than outward trappings

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M.H. Turner, an Anglican layman, asks "Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism?" It's a lengthy and very interesting arg...
Monday, April 27, 2020

If the Lord wills...

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Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”; whereas you...

Whose side are you on?

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Thomas a Kempis prayed Our God, in whom we trust: Strengthen us not to regard overmuch who is for us or who is against us, but to see to ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Another prayer for healing

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This one from the Orthodox tradition : O Lord Almighty, healer of our souls and bodies, Who putteth down and raiseth up, Who chastiseth ...

Mercifully regard Thy servant

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From the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship (1906): O LORD our God, who art the Physician of our souls and of our bodies; who chastenes...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

For your love's sake

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A friend just received this in an email and forwarded it to me: Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night,...

Count your blessings

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I've quoted from Ben Patterson's Waiting before. This is from the first chapter concerning Job. Of what was Job made? What did ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Stone Table

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There is another tale of Narnia but we may never get to read it . I wish I could recommend The Stone Table to you, but you cannot get i...
Monday, April 20, 2020

"A far green country"

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From the final pages of The Return of the King : And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a ni...

A film for sheltering in place

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At Quillette, a list of "Nineteen of the Loneliest Films Ever Made," many of which I haven't seen, but I have seen and reall...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Relax

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From today's Wall Street Journal review of Ingredients , the full title of the book: Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

"We are unlikely to act well until we think well..."

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Alan Jacobs about "thinking during Covidtide," with particular attention to Christian discipleship: .... You can see Christia...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

"Hoping for the wrong thing"

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N.T. Wright quoted at Christianity Today : .... Citing T.S. Eliot (in “East Coker,” the second of Eliot’s Four Quartets ), Wright speaks...

If you're looking for something to read

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CrimeReads suggests "there's no time like the present to read all fifty-six Sherlock Holmes stories" or, for that matter, any...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Alleluia!

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Christ Jesus lay in death’s strong bands    For our offenses given; But now at God’s right hand He stands    And brings us life fro...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

"My heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices..."

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From Psalm 16 : The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me ...

A Saturday kind of faith

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Re-posted   From "Sitting, Waiting, and Hoping in the Tomb of Jesus: How the anguished uncertainty of Holy Saturday gives shape ...
Friday, April 10, 2020

"Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried..."

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I've posted before from this article . Justin Taylor : Written over 20 years ago and published in the Journal of the American Medic...

"Pour on me Thy gifts of grace"

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Oh Lord in Thee is all my trust. Give ear unto my woeful cries. Refuse me not, that am unjust, But bowing down Thy heav'nly...
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