{audio}ScienceFiction.mp3{/audio} Out of the primeval mudpits happened one-celled life (amoebic life!)And suddenly, for no reason at all, this life began to multiply (multiply!)And the evening and the morning were the first 3 zillion years.
The Creed
Here’s a musical setting of the Apostles Creed. We sing this on the first Sunday of the month, and recite it on the others. The sheet music is here, and it has a part for the precentor that is not on the recording. {audio}apostles-creed.mp3{/audio}
Three Reasons Christians Don’t Read the Signs of the Times
1. Thoughtful Christians are embarrassed by those who pretend to be able to read the signs of the times. The simplistic analysis that attributes this tornado to the passage of that piece of tax legislation really is embarrassing. But the presence of people doing it wrong is no basis for a refusal to do it …
Boobquake and the Meaning of History
So there was this Muslim cleric who put his foot in it, clean up to the knee, by saying that women dressing immodestly is the cause of earthquakes. There was naturally a response in this country that called for women to show some principled cleavage in order to test that holy man’s thesis. On Monday, …
Science Fiction
Okay, so I am working on these stupid audio files. Test, test, test . . . {audio}mp3/your_file.mp3{/audio}
Atheistic Wrecking Balls and Bulldozers
The first half of Peter Hitchens’ book concludes with a short summary of how the Christian faith declined in England over the course of the last century or so. From here in the deep weeds of secularism, it is easy to forget that the two great industrial wars of the twentieth century were wars that …
The Prodigal Returns to a Ruin
In chapter 7, Peter describes his rediscovery of faith. But when he comes back to the Anglican church of his youth, he discovers the place greatly altered, and not for the better, because churchmen whose backbone had been carved out of a banana had been listening to the outside critics — critics who had shared …
Spending Moral Capital Can Result in Spent Moral Capital
The next chapter of Peter’s book is chilling. He describes the last days of the Soviet Union and the years he lived there, along with his experiences as a journalist in Mogadishu. The take away point from this chapter is found here, and it is a point that the church in the West — evangelicals …
Not Exactly From Pacifist Stock
Peter Hitchens’ next chapter was profound and moving. Entitled “Britain’s Pseudo-Religion and the Cult of Winston Churchill,” he makes the brave move of identifying the carnage of the two great wars of the 20th century as a massive blood sacrifice to false gods. He does this on the basis of the meaning that was assigned …
No Profit
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #9 “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein” (Heb. 13:9). The author …