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Category: Engaging the Culture

The P is Silent

Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2021Thursday, January 21, 2021 by Douglas Wilson - 149 comments

So let's name this, shall we? I propose that we either drop the p, or treat the p as silent. That way we can readily refer to Resident Biden, or say something like "today the resident announced ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsPolitics

Heroism in Smoke

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“With the smoke of the slain and the songs of death mingling,
The fire was fierce, the fallen consumed,
Brains boiling over, blood gushing from wounds,
The bodies were bursting, the burning greedily ate
And gone were their great ones, their glory vanished”

Beowulf, p. 44

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Letters From the Brink

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by Douglas Wilson - 58 comments

I love how God tells jokes for century after century, evenwhen nobody is paying attention . . . Letter to the Editor: I just noticed that the word 'Canon' looks a lot like 'Qanon'. ...

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CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsLetters to the EditorOpen ThreadTroll Tuesday

Unfeeling Sky

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2021Monday, January 18, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“Hildeburh wailed for Hnaef, and her son as well,
Bidding his body be brought alongside,
That his bones might burn, and his body ascend,
Alongside his uncle, to the unfeeling sky”

Beowulf, p. 43

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Tell It Not in Gath

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2021Monday, January 18, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

Introduction: There is little doubt in my mind that America is currently being chastised by the Lord, and He must have sent a great angel of frenzy upon us to do it. One of the evidences of such chastisement ...

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CategoriesEngaging the CulturePractical Christianity TagsMere ChristendomPolitics

Simple Courage

Posted on Friday, January 15, 2021Friday, January 15, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“His courage in combat never cowered or quailed;
He was daring and doughty when dead bodies fell”

Beowulf, p. 41

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Ain’t It the Way

Posted on Friday, January 15, 2021Friday, January 15, 2021 by Douglas Wilson
CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsYour Friday Funny

Spears for Infighting

Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2021Thursday, January 14, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“Gigantic fingers grim, those gray-clawed spikes,
Like burnished steel, bent spikes, short spears for infighting”

Beowulf, p. 39

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Real Justice

Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2021Saturday, February 25, 2023 by Douglas Wilson - 16 comments

We live in a time when many evangelicals are realizing that we are standing at the base of a really steep learning curve. These are demented times, and the steep learning curve consists of the effort ...

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CategoriesAdvertisementsEngaging the Culture TagsA Justice PrimerDeadwood

That Wretch

Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2021Wednesday, January 13, 2021 by Douglas Wilson

“That wicked wretch ran wailing off
And won’t live long, that loathsome criminal,
Sunken in sin, with sorrow astride him”

Beowulf, p. 39

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

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