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, October 31, 2021

All saints

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Wikipedia notes "Protestants generally regard all true Christian believers as saints and if they observe All Saints Day at all they us...

Justified

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Today is Reformation Day and tomorrow is All Saints' Day: Reformation Day is the anniversary of the day Martin Luther issued h...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

A Halloween movie

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In just a few nights from now I'll once again watch my favorite Halloween movie Arsenic and Old Lace : ... Arsenic and Old Lace is the ...
Monday, October 25, 2021

A platform for moralizing

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From an interesting review of a new biography of Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee: A Life , by Allen C. Guelzo. The reviewer is Andrew Ferguson...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Living in the past

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G.K. Chesterton: We talk of people living in the past; and it is commonly applied to old people or old-fashioned people. But, in fact, we al...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Advice

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Colin Powell's “13 Rules To Live By.” It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Get mad, then get over it. A...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Free speech

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G.K. Chesterton: It is not natural or obvious to let a man utter follies and abominations which you believe to be bad for mankind anymore th...

Books

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In "How Churchill Used Shakespeare to Change the World" Churchill himself is quoted: If you cannot read all your books at any rat...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Progress

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Going back: We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be and if you have taken a wrong turning, then ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

"...That we may hereafter..."

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Continuing to reflect on Russell Moore's comments about confession . Two things occur to me. First, that Protestants sometimes think abo...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

"If you can believe In something bigger than yourself"

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You can stand alone or with somebody else Or stand with all of us, together If you can believe in something bigger than yourself You ...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Non-negotiable

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Re-posted : From "A Thicker Kind of Mere" by Timothy George: The term “mere Christianity,” of course, was made famous by C...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

"We win by confessing our sins"

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From Russell Moore's newsletter "Moore to the Point," today : ...[T]hese followers of Christ think they’re failing. Why? Becau...

Worshiping or watching?

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C.S. Lewis on worship: EVERY SERVICE IS a structure of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Hope

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More from Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) on "Means of hope and remedies against despair": Gather together into your spirit, and its tr...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

"Sufficient to the day..."

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Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667): Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous for the future; for if you take your foot from the pr...
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...
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