“Therefore, just as wood does not burn because it smokes but smoke nonetheless signals the present of fire, so a truth confessed by the church is not a dogma because the church recognizes it but solely because it rests on God’s authority.” Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, translated by John Bold (Grand Rapids: Baker,… [Read more…]
March 8, 2012
“But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved. And this is even truer in youth, for a young man who is always sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth — that’s my… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.” Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 22.
November 24, 2010
“We have made it an overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.” Wendell Berry, “The Unsettling of America,” in The Art of the Commonplace, edited by Norman… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
“Identity is the product of decision. … We live in a world where God is active in choosing us and where our highest acts are a response to that choice, saying ‘yes’ to God’s ‘yes.’ In this environment, decision making can never be trivial or peripheral.” Eugene Peterson, Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with… [Read more…]
October 29, 2010
What’s to be done? poor CARVEL cry’d: Another Batt’ry must be try’d: What if to Spells I had Recourse? ‘Tis but to hinder something Worse. The End must justifie the Means: He only Sins who Ill intends: Since therefore ’tis to Combat Evil; Employing a means to tame his wife, after having tried the Bible,… [Read more…]
May 10, 2012
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