My last bit of advice on the wordriht life was this: “Keep a commonplace book. Write down any notable phrases that occur to you, or that you have come across. If it is one that you have found in another writer, and it is striking, then quote it, as the fellow said, or modify it …
Ancient Roman Toddlers
Back in my callow youth, a number of months ago, when I set out seven basic pointers for writers, the sixth one was this: “Learn other languages, preferably languages that are upstream from ours. This would include Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon. The brain is not a shoebox that ‘gets full,’ but is rather a muscle …
The Blanket Fort Interviews
Many of you recall that I have mentioned Kemper Crabb’s work here before. He has a new (benefit) album out, which you can check out here . By the way, their concert Downe in Yon Forest did really well with PBS last year, and it will be out and about again this year. So look …
Those Who Love Must Fight
“To show love to wolves is just another way of hating sheep. To love sheep, as all good shepherds must, is to hate wolves” (“Sola Scriptura, Creeds, and Ecclesiastical Authority” in When Shall These Things Be?, p. 273).
The Glory of Words
“God has not revealed himself to our sight but rather to our hearing; he has revealed not his form but his will” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. 1, p, 39).
Here You Go
Many of you know that my Dad has written a booklet that has been a great help to many thousands of people — How to Be Free From Bitterness. What you may not know is that it has been translated into many languages. We are in the process of rounding them all up to make …
Trash Talking Ideologies
Surly Almost
Back in the 1920s, everybody knew that fillintheblank was bad for you. In the 1950s, they knew the opposite thing, that something else was good for you, say, fillinanotherblank. In some instances, we still think the same thing as they did, and in others we think something completely different. Gone are the days when a …
Before the Pot Heats Up
INTRODUCTION:We should note again that God’s hymnbook, the psalter, is just full of enemies. Our modern hymnbooks very rarely encounter anything like that. A central part of the reason is that we have worked out a truce with the devil. We don’t have to deal with him attacking us, for we have agreed not to …
In Him
The fear of God is the foundation of every form of righteous fearlessness. The refusal to fear God opens you up to every kind of timorousness. Jesus tells us explicitly that we are not to fear man, but rather to fear God. He sets this forth as a basic alternative. If you fear God, you …