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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Islam: more than a religion

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It's hard to find discussions of Islam free from the extremes of either naiveté or paranoia. That's why I appreciated this special...

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Guns under the Christmas tree . Have we lost our minds?
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Five Limericks Against Christmas

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The topics here has been heavy lately, so how about some levity. I give you  Five Limericks Against Christmas  by Anonymous. I hope you enjo...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

A failure of civil society

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"If you had asked, in 1968, will we have the right to do with guns in 2012 what we can do now, no one, on either side, would have belie...

Wednesday Wendell: Knowing and Imagining

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Wendell Berry, quoted from It All Turns on Affection : The discrepancy between what modern humans presume to know and what they can imag...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Napoleon and the sovereignty of God

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Charles Spurgeon -- from his sermon "God's Providence". . . Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God dispose...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Thoughts on Hyles and First Baptist Church of Hammond, IN

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As a native of northern Indiana I can remember hearing people in the Christian circles I grew up in refer admiringly to Jack Hyles, the char...
Friday, December 7, 2012

The road to dystopia

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Sometimes a chart is worth a thousand words. The above examples come from a long piece by Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal  - T...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Wednesday Wendell: a Sabbath poem (and some links)

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X (1979) Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to day. Vision held open in the dark By our ten thousand days of ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Fullness beyond measure

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The Apostle John writes of Christ Jesus, the incarnate Word: "For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." (John...
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