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The House of Bread, like, rocks, man

Posted in Worship on January 31, 2006 | 14 Comments »

Okay. So I was sitting at work today minding my own business when my brother called. I did not expect it to be him on the other side of the line. I have caller-ID at work; my brother lives in Wisconsin; the call was local (relax, Jonathan Edwards used more than one semi-colon every once [...]

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B is for Baloney

Posted in Politics on January 31, 2006 | 2 Comments »

If somebody could tell me the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, I would really appreciate the clarification.

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Thomas Tallis

Posted in Resources on January 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

This Naxos podcast features a brief biography of Thomas Tallis and samples his Spem in Alium. It’s kind of funny because this old guy tells bad (and dry) jokes trying to make Tallis hip, but it is a half-way decent introduction.

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Premoderns wonder

Posted in Musings on January 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »

The common distinctions between the prevailing epochs of the thought-constructs of mankind are threefold: premodern, modern, and postmodern. Myron Penner summarizes:
“In premodernity rational thought begins with an attitude of wonder, and the basic orientation for philosophical reflection is characterized as an attempt to explain the perplexities of the universe (which cause one to wonder). . [...]

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Gonald on divorce

Posted in Conservatives, Resources on January 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

This passage comes from the excellent talk by Christopher Olaf Blum, available at ISI. The speech principally concerns the conservatism of Louis de Bonald, a foremost thinker in the French conservative tradition. You should listen to this speech, for conservatism should extend far past our politics, but into our church life as well. Bonald emphasized [...]

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from John Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Posted in Hymns and Poetry on January 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Holy Sonnet XI
Spit on my face you Jewes, and pierce my side,
Buffet, and scoffe, scourge, and crucifie mee,
For I have sinn’d, and sinn’d, and onely hee,
Who could do no iniquitie, hath dyed:
But by my death can not be satisified
My sinnes, which passe the Jewes impiety:
They kill’d once an inglorious man, but I
Crucifie him daily, being [...]

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Way to be born, Mozart

Posted in Musings on January 27, 2006 | 4 Comments »

I am sure that the blogosphere will be ringing today with the accolades of Mozart on this 250th anniversary of his birth. My original idea was to show how he was inferior to Bach. That, however, would be not be proper.
I like Mozart. Although I would not by any means consider myself a Mozart expert, [...]

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American Evangelicalism has issues (ChristianBibleStudies.com)

Posted in American evangelicalism has issues on January 26, 2006 | 12 Comments »

Do you find the Bible boring? Perhaps you would be like the Bible if a movie came along with it? Then look no further than Christianity Today’s subsidiary ChristianBibleStudies.com. This noble company offers “dozens of ready-to-download, ready-to-use Bible studies on topics as relevant as today’s headlines. From Islam to genetics, politics to spiritual growth, you’ll [...]

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Nos Sobrii: The Idea of Fundamentalism

Posted in Resources on January 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

You must read Kevin Bauder’s post for today.
Nos Sobrii: The Idea of Fundamentalism

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A. W. Tozer on the Christian “mystic”

Posted in Exegesis and Theology on January 26, 2006 | 32 Comments »

Tozer edited a book of Christian poetry he called The Christian Book of Mystical Verse (you really need to get this book; I know I’ve said that before, but this time I really mean it). In his introduction, he tries to explain why he used the word “mystic” in the title. He acknowledged that there [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Christian Liberty

Posted in Exegesis and Theology, Jonathan Edwards on January 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »

“In the service of God, there is true liberty to do whatever tends most for our pleasure. A great and chief argument of Satan to dissuade men from the service of God is that it abridges of all manner of pleasure; it ties one up from seeking our own pleasure, but [we] must be obliged [...]

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The Word of Christ dwelling richly among the Church

Posted in Exegesis and Theology, Resources on January 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Today I also posted an article on the Kara Ministries Weblog entitled “The Word of Christ dwelling richly among the church.” Please stop by and join the conversation.

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What the early church thought about movies

Posted in Thats Entertainment, What the early church thought about on January 23, 2006 | 8 Comments »

I know, I know. You're all sick of the movie discussion. There are movie discussions all over the web, and we just had a big movie discussion here. I hate beating dead horses, and there a lot of sites that do just that; yet consider this a one time indulgence of horse-beating. I told some [...]

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Religious Affections Radio officially launches

Posted in Resources on January 23, 2006 | 3 Comments »

Scott Aniol received a donation to his website last year and, instead of buying his long desired Ipod, decided to use it to start an internet radio station, Religious Affections Radio.
I am very happy that Scott has started this station. I have wanted to do something like this for quite some time, so I [...]

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