“The legacy of New York is the wealth that free trade brings, and if we want to keep that legacy, we have to learn how to handle that wealth. Man does not live by bread alone, and this is not altered by adopting hattan as a suffix” (5 Cities, p. 182).
Cadenced Wisdom
There are a handful of books which, once I am done reading them, I start right over again at the beginning. They are in what might be called my “perpetual stack.” Then in that stack are some “perpetual writers,” defined as those authors I want always to be reading something from — e.g. G.K Chesterton, …
More Fun Coming
Logos Dad’s Band at the Nuart from Cooper White on Vimeo.
A Delicate Pale
“The sunset was beautifully understated, and spread out over the western sky like the pale, pastel inside of an oyster shell. But it had been quite a day, and the oyster was a little annoyed” (Evangellyfish, p. 53).
Not a Dialogue Partner
“The iconoclastic and ‘unreasonable’ Puritan, the Tishbite roaring out of the desert who did not come to initiate ‘constructive dialogue,’ and the reforming king who hates idols are all preeminent examples of godliness. This is because in a holy way, jealousy is intractable, righteous, and in many cases altogether terrifying” (For a Glory and a …
An Unexpected Shift
“It is difficult for us to understand this now, but for many centuries, the Muslim powers were at the center of civilization, and they scarcely paid any attention to the scattered Christian nations to their northwest. Embedded deeply in today’s Muslim psyche is the notino that something has gone terribly wrong” (5 Cities, p. 178).
Not for Triflers
“Eloquence is a serious thing . . . The speaker who is to deserve this high name, must have moral earnestness” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 21).
The Cutest Thing You Ever Saw
The biblical view is that human life begins at conception, and conception begins when the sperm fertilizes the egg. Human life must not be defined environmentally as, for example, when that fertilized egg is implanted in the uterine wall. We shouldn’t want the definition of life to be dependent on what other people vote to …
On Building a Potato Gun in the Garage
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 13, 2013 Our office has been asked for a statement from Douglas Wilson on the news that he has been formally uninvited from delivering the prayer at President Obama’s Second Inauguration. This controversy, as many know, revolves around the fact that Pastor Wilson made a joke a number of years ago in …
Figuring Our What We Think
Here is a snapshot of an Christ Church elder retreat we had a week or so ago. It is such a privilege to work with these men.