So here is the next stop on Nate’s blog tour.
The Earl of Greenback Trillions
Time will tell if the Tea Party movement — and other forms of less directed anger — will rise to an actual peasants-with-pitchforks moment. I can only say what Tolkien once said in another context entirely — one hopes. In order for the peasants to actually make it over the castle walls, in pursuit of …
Thinks I Have Thunk
Mars Hill audio is an audio magazine that just celebrated the publication of its 100th edition, and I commend it to you. I listen to it faithfully, and the interviews with numerous authors are really informative, and it is one of my main sources for tips on valuable books to check out. So go ye, …
One of Our Communion Hymns
“Word and Water, Bread and Wine” – Christ Church Psalm Sing from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.
Foodstuffs
As you know, I have been writing a great deal about foodstuffs. Now Peter Leithart has provided some bedrock to build on. Check it out here.
Trinity Talk
Please allow me to commend the good work of some friends — Uri and Jarrod — at a place called Trinity Talk. I got involved in it all somehow.
A Floor Covered with Busted Wineskins
Somehow I made it all this distance without ever reading Abraham Kuyper’s original lecture on sphere sovereignty. That deficiency I have now corrected and, having just completed it, there is nothing I want to do so much as stand here on my office chair and sing a hymn. Here is one gem is that is …
Turretin on One of His Grumpy Days
In one of his central misunderstandings, N.T. Wright says that “it makes no sense whatever to say that the judge imputes, imparts, bequeaths, conveys, or otherwise transfers his righteousness to either the plantiff or the defendant. Righteousness is not an object, a substance or a gas that can be passed across the courtroom.” In the …
Why a Writer Should Want to be a Dragonfly
As mentioned before, Nate is on a multi-day blog tour. The first visit was at Mundie Moms , and the second at Books4yourkids . And this morning he writes about the life-cycle of a writer here.
10 Reasons Why Sarah Palin is Formidable
I haven’t posted on politics for a bit, and I thought I needed to jot down just a few things about Sarah Palin. She is a genuinely interesting figure, and so I thought I should mention ten reasons why I believe she is formidable. 1. She makes all the right people on the left go …