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, February 28, 2023

Keller

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My introduction to Timothy Keller was through his very good apologetic, The Reason for God (2008). Since then I've read many things by ...
Monday, February 27, 2023

"Cultural" Christianity

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Kevin Williamson, who writes primarily at The Dispatch , is always worth my time (and perhaps yours, subscribe here ). Williamson today : .....
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Physical possession

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I own so many books, DVDs, and CDs—now also available streaming or in my Kindle library—that I have wondered how many I should keep. Comment...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Angry pacifism

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I loved this , perhaps because it combines a lesson from history, political cartoons, and C.S. Lewis, but also because I like the historical...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

"The general bank and capital of nations, and of ages"

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When I used this quotation from Burke in a class I had to explain that "prejudice" as used here needed to be understood as traditi...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Loving your neighbor

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From Andrew Walker : Few biblical phrases are as ubiquitous or have greater cultural standing than the biblical teaching to “love your neigh...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

"There's a voice I can hear"

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Tell me, where is the road I can call my own That I left, that I lost So long ago? All these years I have wandered O...

Cheer up and live in the sunshine

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Just came across this performance of a bluegrass standard I like a lot not least because of its message:
Friday, February 17, 2023

Abide with me

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Patrick Kurp today : .... The worthy dead are to be remembered. I take that to mean the personal dead – family, friends – and those we know ...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

I might be an extremist

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Douglas Murray has been reading the report of Britain's "Research Information and Communications Unit" (RICU), part of a gove...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A fool's hope

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I thought Alan Jacobs' discussion of Denethor’s suicide in The Lord of the Rings interesting and found his conclusions agreeable. Towa...

Intelligent but irrational

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From "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" : The prevailing view is that people adopt false beliefs because they’re too stupid ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

New England neo-noir

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Last night I watched Tom Selleck in one of his Jesse Stone films. He did nine as TV movies and I think they are his best work. They have be...
Monday, February 13, 2023

"The malady of self-delusion"

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Via Steven Hayward from The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929): It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of sa...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

The use and abuse of history

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Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning has been published. The controversy associated with its publication is very like the issues r...

Dorothy Sayers' non-fiction

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A friend, familiar with Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter mysteries, asked for suggestions of her non-fiction. Apart from The Mind of the Ma...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Political converts

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I only recently became aware of Andrew Tate and his considerable influence in some quarters. Shadi Hamid on the significance of Tate's ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

A light to the Gentiles

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On February 2 much of the Church celebrates The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord: And when the time came for their purification accordi...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

CSL and DLS

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The newest issue of CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society arrived today. The lead essay introduces Subversive: Christ, Cultu...
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Those who have no master...

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Spurgeon died on January 31 1892, aged only 57, after a long illness. From his final sermon the previous summer: .... Those who have no mast...
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