A little something for everyone in this post...
One of the most unfortunate things that can happen to a historic personage is to have "ism" added to his name. Dr. Frank James attempts to rescue John Calvin from his enemies and his friends in a lecture entitled "The Calvin I Never Knew". You can find it at RTS on iTunes U under RTS Seminars. It's excellent!
On a completely different note, David Byrne chats with Thom Yorke of Radiohead about their new album In Rainbows and "the real value of music. It's at Wired.
Lastly, a quote from J. Gresham Machen -- one of the 20th centuries great defenders of biblical Christianity.
In no branch of science would there be any real advance if every generation started fresh with no dependence upon what past generations have achieved. Yet in theology, vituperation of the past seems to be thought essential to progress. And upon what base slanders the vituperation is based! After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives rather a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession for example, or to that tenderest and most theological of books, the "Pilgrim's Progress" of John Bunyan, and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love. Christianity and Liberalism (1923)
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