There is a little something that I have assumed for years, but never bothered to check. This morning I was reading in Revelation, the thought popped up again, and so I thought I would check on it. And, sure enough, there it was, right in the Bible. “And before the throne there was a sea …
Grad Study in the Wordsmithy
I alluded to further developments in my previous post. Just to help you keep track, there’s three days in the wordsmithy, and then there are more than three days in the wordsmithy. And here is a description, as captured by a statement from NSA: Merry Christmas to you from New Saint Andrews College. Here’s What’s …
Three Days in the Wordsmithy
We are really excited about some writing developments at NSA. And here is the first installment . . . three days in the wordsmithy.
Treasury of Tropes
“Far from being mere word tricks, the tropes of classical rhetoric are the inevitable consequence of a creation endowed by its creator with meaning . . . Creation itself is metaphoric and parabolic. Things seen speak of things unseen” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 59).
It Works the Other Direction Too
“She was a woman loved, and therefore lovely, and therefore loving” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 108).
Stinky Diapers, Theologically Speaking
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #22 “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ” (1 Cor. 3:1). The apostle Paul has already told us that the Corinthian church was a spiritually …
How Social Policing Works
The antithesis is foundational to any right understanding of social order. From the beginning of our history, God has placed antipathy between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). The human race is divided into two races, those who love holiness and those who do not. The former are …
The Transfat Community
And so now we come to see that the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law for the military does not cover transsexualites, or transgenderites. Neither does it cover transfats, but that is a separate issue for a separate jeremiad. Some other day perhaps. One searches in vain for an explanation for this indefensible …
The Long Slavery
“For centuries one of the problems with rhetoric as it was practiced in the classical world was that it all too often served no purpose quite so clearly as the glorification of the orator . . . The purpose, the end, of rhetoric had a way of getting lost under the techniques. When rhetoric was …
Affliction as the Touchstone of Theology
“‘Calvinism’ is often mocked as an austere faith, fit only for ideologues. But in the instructed heart of Anne Bradstreet, and through her pen, we see the loveliness of her Calvinism, which is just a different way of saying the ‘loveliness of her Christian contentment'” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 97).