December 2011
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August 2011
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“But there is also an important difference between emergent skeptics and catholic...”
– James K.A. Smith, On His Blog Here.
June 2011
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“Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities...”
– Dimble in That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis
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Mom.
Wanda Brown
September 16, 1944 - June 27, 2011
I stumbled into my study a few hours after hearing the news that my mother had died. Sitting on my desk were two very large, very worn bibles. Hays and Molly had proudly brought them down to my desk while rummaging through all of mom’s old stuff that morning. One was an old King James Bible which had been my father’s bible. He died in...
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“If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
May 2011
3 posts
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“Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.” NY Times May 29 OpEds
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“We have been trained to use a language which claims to make sense of the world...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth
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“I ended my first book with the words, no answer. I know now, Lord, why you utter...”
– Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
March 2011
7 posts
“… divine grace is never synonymous with human graciousness.”
– Ralph Wood commenting on Flannery O’Connor’s theological lexicon (via wesleyhill)
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“It seems to me that one of the ways that consumerism has really afflicted the...”
– Isaac Wardell, here: From The Resurgence
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February 2011
10 posts
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January 2011
4 posts
“The Christian faith is not a condiment to be used to flavor the neutral...”
– Douglas Wilson, The Case for Classical Christian Education
“The Internet calls people out of their loneliness to create electronic selves...”
– Stephen Burn, Why Criticism Matters, The NYT Book Review
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December 2010
7 posts
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Church of the Happy Sky Fairies
Most people’s ecclesiology is decidedly gnostic. Somewhere along the line we broke with Rome and we also decided to break with an actual meaning to words like “one another,” “leaders,” and “submit to.” Community became this romantic ideal that we experience merely through “organic” relationships. Submission became a sexist, patriarchal sort of...
“It’s ironic, but true, that one of the qualifications of the modern...”
– Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
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RedMountain & PageCXVI
Our friends Tifah, Reid, and Dann have released (under the name of Page CXVI) their third in a series of hymns albums. It is good. Very good. Their arrangement of Be Still My Soul has become a regular in our home and the other songs both echo the hymns sung in my youth but bring an interpretation of these texts which makes the old seem new and affective. They have chosen to adapt fairly popular...
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“An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that...”
– James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom, p.26
November 2010
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“PL: The first thing I’d want to emphasize is that Christians are engaged in...”
– An Interview with Peter Leithart
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“So the word is God. When we encounter the word of God, we encounter God. When we...”
– John Frame, The Doctrine of the Word of God, p. 68
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“The fact that they aren’t qualified for such roles doesn’t seem to daunt them in...”
– Joe Carter on First Things
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Watch Wonderfully interesting discussion between Alan Jacobs, Doug Wilson, and Nate Wilson on C.S. Lewis.
October 2010
7 posts
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Completely Agree. Amazing & Important Book →
“…all thinking—all learning, all education, all schooling, formal or...”
– Think, John Piper
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“There is a zeal for God that accords with knowledge, and there is a zeal for God...”
– Think, John Piper
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September 2010
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“One of the marks of revival is not just high-octane worship, which costs us no...”
– Ray Ortlund, Isaiah: God Saves Sinners, p.60
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“For some time we seem to have been launched on a great campaign to deromanticize...”
– Madilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam.
August 2010
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