Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Sunspots 540

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Benjamin L. Corey on how ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Thomas à Kempis on the cross

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  The above graphic is an attempt to set a quotation from Thomas à Kempis , in his classic The Imitation of Christ , into poster form. The...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Are there any nations you need to conquer? David and Psalm 18

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Psalm 18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried....
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 40

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Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition o...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Rest in peace, Yogi Berra

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Lawrence Peter ("Yogi") Berra has passed away. Berra was a great baseball player, being on the winning side in 13 of 21 World S...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Sunspots 539

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: An orthodox Christian pastor says t...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Some characteristics of God

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  Some characteristics of God. God isn't in a hurry. The earth, and the universe, are very old. God put up with the unfaithfulness of t...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 39

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We constantly hear a particularly cosmic creed from the modern humanitarians; I use the word humanitarian in the ordinary sense, as ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Sunspots 538

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:   Computing: Jotti is an on-line site that...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Ideas on how to love God

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Ideas on How to Love God Mark 12:28-31 tells us that the most important commandment is to love God. In Luke’s description of what wa...
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Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton, 38

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Some people (as we have said) seem to believe in an automatic and impersonal progress in the nature of things. But it is clear that no...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Sunspots 537

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: (or something) Lego-like block...
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Monday, September 07, 2015

Once Beyond a Time, by Ann Tatlock

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It was my privilege to recently read Ann Tatlock's Once Beyond a Time , which won the Christy Award (for books with a Christian worldv...
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Sunday, September 06, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 37

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Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Sunspots 536

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: Wired discusses producing fine musi...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Starflower, by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

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Her Wikipedia page is pretty sparse, but Anne Elisabeth Stengl does have a blog . That blog gives more information about Stengl and her wor...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 36

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The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in our life is required even to improve it; second, that some...