One Eternal Day

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

Friday, September 24, 2021

"Spoiled with praise and...spoiled with abuse"

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Today the Wall Street Journal has a review of a new edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge . I've ordered it. From Barton Swa...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

"There is light even in the darkest hour"

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Worth re-posting : 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 Word was...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Dune

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I haven't read Frank Herbert’s Dune . I was never much of a consumer of science fiction, or fantasy either, apart from LOTR. A new film ...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Esperanto for measurement

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I love this : The British government has announced that U.K. businesses will once again be allowed to sell their products in traditional, Br...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

A guilty pleasure

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I enjoy Robert Mitchum in just about every thing he did. His villainous roles in Cape Fear (1962) and The Night of the Hunter (1955) may h...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

September 11

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After 9/11 in 2001, at the Queen's request, breaking centuries of tradition, the American national anthem was performed at the Changing ...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Questions that really matter

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I enjoyed reading Daniel Idfresne's "I'm 17. And I'm Immunized from Woke Politics." His closing paragraphs: Here is t...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Uncle Abner

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In a post about early American detective fiction, "The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," comes one I've posted about befor...
Monday, September 6, 2021

On Labor Day

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Re-posted . On this Labor Day, I re-post part of a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers: "Why Work?" ( pdf ): I HAVE already,...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

"Though we walk through the valley of the shadow..."

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I first posted this prayer in the Spring of last year. From Jeremy Taylor: a prayer "for all that lie under the rod of war, famine, p...

Never unprepared

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Thou, who with thine own mouth hast told us that at midnight the bridegroom shall come: Grant that the cry, "The bridegroom cometh!...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

"Putting away all earthly anxieties..."

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A COLLECT FOR SABBATH REST Saturday Almighty God , who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Posting

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I haven't posted here for over a week. I try every day to find something interesting to post — at least interesting to me. I apologize t...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

"When I use a word..."

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After watching Jen Psaki's news conference yesterday several commentators were reminded of this from Through the Looking Glass . Having ...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Doubts

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Today Alan Jacobs posts a quotation from George MacDonald's “The Voice of Job” : ....To deny the existence of God may, paradoxical as t...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

J. Edgar

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I have been interested in the history of the FBI for as long as I've known about the institution. When I was growing up Hoover was legen...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Be a teacher

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Reviewing some other things of mine that appeared in The Sabbath Recorder :   In the film of Robert Bolt’s play, "A Man for All Seasons...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

There is a happy ending

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Re-posted. I've updated the introduction slightly. A sermon I delivered on "Layman's Sabbath," October 17, 1970, during mo...

"The power of Man to make himself what he pleases..."

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"The Best C.S. Lewis Book You’ve Never Read" is the title of a post reviewing a new guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man...
Friday, July 30, 2021

"Mere" Christianity

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From George Marsden's "Mere Christianity: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic" : One of the strongest habits of thought bo...
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"I thought we had an honest man upon the Road, and therefore should have his Company by and by." "If you thought not amiss" said Standfast "how happy am I, but if I be not as I should, I alone must bear it."
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