One Eternal Day

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

Saturday, May 28, 2022

False prophets

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From "How to Spot a Wolf" : The Bible commands Christians, “Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

"A heart to love and dread thee..."

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"Should I Pray Someone Else’s Prayers?" is a post at the Canadian TGC site. The author: .... So why would I—a low church, Baptist...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

"May God bless and keep you always..."

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On his 81 st birthday, Bob Dylan: From 1971:
Monday, May 23, 2022

A person of no account

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Alan Jacobs has been reading Right Ho, Jeeves . At Snakes & Ladders today he quotes W.H. Auden on Bertie Wooster : If [Bertie] has...

Do not be true to yourself

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Kevin DeYoung delivered the 2022 Commencement address at Geneva College . Excerpts: .... Do not follow your dreams... Do not march to the b...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

"They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. ...."

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I read the book long ago, but bought a DVD of the 1934 film just recently. Sarah Schutte at NRO : "They seek him here. They seek him th...

"It's not dark yet, but it's getting there"

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Bob Dylan's 81 st birhtday is on Tuesday, May 24. Today, Scott Johnson at Power Line, in recognition of the event, has posted some of h...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

"A smile and words of hope..."

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A friend found a copy of this inside her father's Bible:  The Inevitable I like the man who faces what he mu...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

A place for reverence and reflection

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"Why Our Churches Should Be Beautiful" is very much worth reading, especially if you are considering a change in your place of wo...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Hard times

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Mavis Staples sings Stephen Foster:

God, Jefferson, and the Declaration

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Thomas Kidd​, Jefferson biographer, Christian historian, on religious influence on the Declaration of Independence : .... For secularists, t...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Don't look back

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"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
Monday, May 16, 2022

Sacrifice to Cronus

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Child sacrifice : A large bronze image of the god Cronus stood in the Tophet of Carthage. His hands extended with palms facing up and arms ...

Participation

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Sunday, May 15, 2022

The American project

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I like this statement (the signers can be found at the link): .... The American project, as such, is under assault. Our history is the subj...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Riddled with factual errors

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When your work is reviewed by someone who is a scholar on the subject. From Churchill biographer, Andrew Roberts, "What the Marxist Tar...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

An independent judiciary

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Quoted in The Dispatch , President, and future Chief Justice, William Howard Taft provided a civics lesson about the role of courts in our C...

Tyrant

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Does Putin qualify as a tyrant? According to Aristotle : First, ...the tyrant stamped on anyone exhibiting the slightest independence of min...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Discernment

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Worth reading: Tim Alberta, "How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church." Some excerpts: .... I’ve spent my life watching evang...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

The Nazgul were the good guys?

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About a Ukrainian translation of Lord of the Rings : .... Feschowetz, once a professor at Ivan Franko National University, is on a “mission...
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