Next time I dream of conducting Beethoven’s 7th or the B Minor Mass, I should remember Gilbert Kaplan

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/arts/music/18kapl.html?ref=arts
Related: David Finlayson’s post
And all you ‘every-classical-concert-I-go-to-I-need-to-give-a-standing-O‘ people out there, you should also read this article.

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Sobering words from R. L. Dabney

The Presbyterian divine Robert Lewis Dabney would, I am certain, be flabbergasted by what passes as “Reformed” worship in American evangelicalism. Years ago he gravely warned:
“Blinded men are ever prone to imagine that they have religious feelings because they have sensuous animal feelings in accidental juxtaposition with religious places, words, or sights. This is the [...]

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Objectionable on so many levels

Sometimes, particularly while reading David Wells, I am strongly tempted to discontinue my willingness to call myself an evangelical, since (he tells me) the term has nearly no meaning anymore.
Then, when I see things like this, (HT: Purgatorio) I am quite ready to insist that I am not an evangelical. 
Unbelievable.

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