Sunday, April 19, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 19

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Thus ends, in unavoidable inadequacy, the attempt to utter the unutterable things. These are my ultimate attitudes towards life; the s...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books

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I recently re-read the five Chronicles of Prydain , by the late Lloyd Alexander . The books, in order, are The Book of Three , The Black Cau...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Why educated people should know something about science

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An acquaintance of mine, a frequent blogger, is Dean of a Seminary, for a Christian university. He posts on lots of different topics. But he...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Sunspots 517

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: A blogger from Relevant warns...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 18

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I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it sin...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Too much criticism, too little creation

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Relevant has a fine essay on the topic of the title of this post. Yes, in almost any area of human endeavor, such as politics, sports, b...
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Chesterton as a Saint?

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As you may have noticed, I have been posting excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, on Sundays, for a few months -- God willing,...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

What ISIS Really Wants

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The Atlantic has published a long, but readable analysis, on " What ISIS Really Wants ." The bottom line: the West, including, ap...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Sunspots 516

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: (and politics, unfortunately) Neve...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

On the importance of water (again)

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I have posted, before, on the importance of water. See here , for one such post. I'm not the only person to think about this, of cours...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Easter poster

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  He is risen! It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of the resurrection. The photo was taken out of the window of an airplan...
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Sunday, April 05, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 17

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All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed ...
Friday, April 03, 2015

Good Friday poster

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  An attempt at a Good Friday poster. Note that sin, with an enlarged "i", leads to death, and that despair obscures hope. Th...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Sunspots 515

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Although this is posted on April 1, none of it is designed to be an April Fool's joke: Things I have recently spotted that may ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 16

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I have explained that the fairy tales founded in me two convictions; first, that this world is a wild and startling place, which might...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Psalm 66:20 poster

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The above poster is an attempt to do justice to Psalm 66:20, which says "Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his lo...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Sunspots 514

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity (and Mathematics) : He Lives has ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

A. W. Tozer on beauty

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  Photo: waves on Lake Hartwell, off US 29, Anderson County, South Carolina. The picture is also a link to itself, on my Flickr photostrea...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Cinderella

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I don't think I saw Disney's animated version of Cinderella when it first came out. But I did see the comic book that accompanied i...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 15

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I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restriction on sex seemed so odd an...
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