Some dear friends are hosting a conference in a few weeks near Lyon, France. Their ministry is called Huguenot Heritage, and the embed below will tell you more about that. Any who are interested in supporting a very worthy ministry should consider helping to underwrite the costs of conference or even, if you are on …
Crisis and the Church
In a few weeks, I will be down in Boise for a conference sponsored by The King’s Congregation, a sister congregation in the CREC. More information can be found here. Just think, Boise is probably closer to your house than you think.
Dangerous Women
Here is a copy of the address that Nancy gave to a graduating class of eleven girls at Trinitas in Pensacola. The folks there are just wonderful, with hospitality to match.
Foxy News
A little while ago I submitted an article to the “On Faith” feature over at the Washington Post, and they ran it today. It is entitled Foxy News, and you can read it here.
A Poem from over the Pond
John Fuller’s Collected Poems were published in 1996, and his Stones and Fires won the Forward Prize in 1997. His latest collection, Pebble & I, released Spring 2010 from Chatto and Windus. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society …
Smelly Little Orthodoxies
Of course, on the question of the relationship of clear writing and clear thinking, George Orwell is indispensible. And so it is indeed fitting that my friend Peter Hitchens has won the Orwell prize, England’s most prestigious writing award. Go, fight, win. The judges said: “In choosing this year’s winner, we went back to Orwell. …
Here’s What I’m Talking About
I have been blogging through Peter Hitchens’ The Rage Against God. That fine book is now available here in the states, and, in particular, in Idaho to be precise, it is available through Canon Press. Here you go.
A Good Place for It
Now here is a real deal. The president of Westminster Seminary in Philly, Peter Lillback, has done some wonderful work on George Washington. Peter was just on Glenn Beck, and his biography of George Washington shot to number one on Amazon. That’s a good place for it. Well, as it turns out, Peter was here …
Looking for the City
Three points to anyone who can point out the Edwardsian riff and the Deadhead allusion.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Quite a few years ago (in 1989, in fact), I edited a small volume of essays on cosmology and other things that go bump in the night, in which a few of us refuse to be embarrassed by the embarrasing parts of the Bible. Thanks to the amazing powers of print-on-demand, that volume is now …