“Since God gives His glory to man through metaphoric creatures, it is appropriate that man answer through metaphoric poetry” (Daly, p. 177).
Why Creative Writing Courses Are Usually Full
“Such is the fated result of an assumption deeply buried in our collective mind. It grew there early in the last century when the artist as a social type came to be glorified as a hero, a seer, a genius. Geniuses must be allowed to do as they please while the rest of mankind gratefully …
University of Whatzit
“A more biblical vision would see the Church as guardian or custodian of the sacred text. Just as the Jews, the Church of the Old Testament, discharged their obligations with regard to the Scriptures, so should the Church under the New Covenant. What God had spoken through His prophets was entrusted to His covenant people. …
What We Do When We Never Had It So Good
“No, we have such ease, such liberties, that, were our forefathers raised out of their graves to see, they would admire God’s goodness and bless Him with meltings of heart; but we spend that strength in siding, wrangling, contending, quarreling, vexing, and opposing one another that we should spend in magnifying, blessing and praising the …
Westminster XXIX: Of the Lord”s Supper
1. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein He was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of His body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in His Church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of Himself in His death; the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, …
Fun Juxtapositions
Sometimes the news brings you fun juxtapositions. The last one I heard about was a local newspaper carrying two stories — one about the removal of Christmas trees from the SeaTac airport, and the other about the terrorist organization Hamas helping Christians in Bethlehem decorate the town for Christmas. Heh. But this is a new …
A Second Battle of Tours I
Introduction: We have noted before that we have a responsibility as Christians to understand the times. We do not seek to do so infallibly, but we do want to live our lives in wisdom. This said, there are many good reasons for believing that the conflict between the Christian faith and Islam will occupy in …
Blindsided
“Apart from that, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the technological revolution passed virtually unnoticed in the lands of Islam, where they were still inclined to dismiss the denizens of the lands beyond the Western frontier as benighted barbarians, much inferior even to the more sophisticated Asian infidels to the east. These had useful skills and devices …
A Word Spoken by the Word
“For him [Taylor] as for them, the world itself is a metaphor, the gift of a loving God, and is intended to raise our affections to Him and to make us sing” (Daly, p. 176).
Knowledge Extract
“But what we are experiencing is not the knowledge explosion so often boasted of; it is a torrent of information, made possible by first reducing the known to compact form and then bulking it up again—adding water. That is why the product so often tastes like dried soup” (Jacques Barzun, The Culture We Deserve, p. …