Friday, June 29, 2012

Bill Murray does his own stunts

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Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998)
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Kuyper on common grace

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Abraham Kuyper didn't invent the concept of common grace, but he pushed it further than anyone before or since, even writing a three vol...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A Wesleyan who loves Calvin

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From a Gospel Coalition interview of Fred Sanders: Definitely sign me up for the "Wesleyans who love Calvin" club. I teach excerpt...
Monday, June 25, 2012

John Ford's "immense practical skills"

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It's a relatively uncomplicated process for a writer or painter to translate an artistic vision into something tangible. Not easy, but u...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Germany v. Greece preview and some classic Python

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Later today Germany will be taking on Greece in the quarterfinals of the 2012 European Football Championship. This affair held every four ye...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Revisiting the Pensées (Eliot on Pascal)

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I've begun re-reading Pascal's Pensées owing to two facts: my dear mom got me a Kindle for Father's Day and shortly after I was...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Wednesday Wendell: Berry's second law of a "money economy"

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The following quote is from the Foreword to The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural (Counterpoint, 1981) For comp...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Goodbye PCUSA, hello ECO

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"Nothing engenders strife so much as a forced unity, within the same organization, of those who disagree fundamentally in aim." -...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Wednesday Wendell: good work and God's work

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These quotes are from Wendell Berry's essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation" as published in Sex, Economy, Freedom ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Peterson on repentance

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A while back I quoted pastor and author Eugene Peterson on the "tourist mindset" that poses a unique challenge to Christian disci...
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