January 2008
19 posts
We Are Co-Existers by Bodies of Water
Bodies of Water website We Are Co-Existors from Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink We are co-existors Living here below together We are co-resistors Straining ‘gainst our worldly tethers We are co-existors Holding hands while in the furnace We are co-resistors Fire as this can never burn us Oh, to sing and be sung (oh, to sing and be sung) To sing and be sung! Oh, to fling and...
Sovereign Grace Blog
C. J. Mahaney, with the assistance of Tony Reinke, is starting a blog. You can read his first (and thus far only) post, which closes with these words: I think you can anticipate a disproportionate number of posts on one topic, “Christ and him crucified” (1Co 2:2), for that, by the grace of God, is what I am most passionate about. So here would be my hope for this blog, and for the handful of you...
True freedom
The Word of God teaches that the Christian is a free man and should “stand in the freedom which Christ has made him free.” What is meant by Christian freedom? What is freedom in general? We answer: it is not the right and the ability to do as one pleases, but the ability to move without constraint in the sphere for which God made us. Freedom therefore is not inconsistent with limitation and law....
Discerning Reader →
I just stumbled across this site. It looks like a good resource.
On Paying Attention
“The phrase ‘to pay attention’ is telling. It reminds us that attention costs something. Attention demands an active, energetic response to every situation, to the persons, places, and things that make up the situation. It is impossible to be truly attentive and passive at the same time. Don’t just look, see. Don’t just hear, listen. Train yourself to focus on details. The...
On the "Tragedy of Indiscipline"
Nothing was ever achieved without discipline; and many an athlete and many a man has been ruined because he abandoned discipline and let himself grow slack. Coleridge is the supreme tragedy of indiscipline. Never did so great a mind produce so little. He left Cambridge University to join the army; but he left the army because, in spite of all his erudition, he could not rub down a horse; he...
And Hiding Away by The Innocence Mission
I prize the cloudy, tearing sky… For the thoughts that flap and fly… For staying in and reading by… For sitting under. I read a book of Madeline And her friends in two straight lines, In Paris, in a house with vines Over its old face. Far, far is Paris… And the sky is dark with mystery. Try, catch the thoughts that flap and fly In the cloudy, tearing sky, That touch and...
A Handy Utility for MP3's
This is a simple utility for making MP3’s from a CD: http://www.nonags.com/software.asp?ID=1987
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right...”
– Dorothy Nevill
The "New" List of Tired Old Clichés
Breathless: Breathless prose, breathless objections, breathless reporting. I don’t know if this is a result of Global Warming, but I think it is high time we get some air back. I’ve had it up to here. Start breathing, ladies and gentlemen. No more breathless … ness. This abused adjective has literally lost all meaning. Literally: The word literally is literally being drug in the...
A. E. Housman on the causes of obscurity in poetry
When the meaning of a poem is obscure, it is due to one of three causes. Either the author through lack of skill has failed to express his meaning; or he has concealed it intentionally; or he has no meaning either to conceal or express. In none of these cases does he like to be asked about it. In the first case it makes him feel humiliated; in the second it makes him feel embarrassed; in the third...
from Dostoevksy
I shall be told, perhaps, that Alyosha was stupid, undeveloped, had not finished his studies, and so on. That he did not finish his studies is true, but to say that he was stupid or dull would be a great injustice. I’ll simply repeat what I have said above. He entered upon this path only because, at that time, it alone struck his imagination and presented itself to him as offering an ideal means...
"I Resolve to Forgo Data For Wisdom" by Rod Dreher →
All I can say is that I’m guilty as charged. Definitely food for thought. An excerpt: I’m too inundated with information to stay focused on any one thing for long. When I wake up, it takes monumental powers of resistance to keep from checking my e-mail. More often than not, I fail. And then, well, while I’m at the computer, why not peek at the headlines and maybe post a quick...
"Great (American) Expectations" by Bret Stephens →
A little perspective for the utopians. Excerpt: A nation in which the poor are defined by an income level that in most countries would make them prosperous is a nation that has all but forgotten the true meaning of poverty. A nation in which obesity is largely a problem of the poor (and anorexia of the upper-middle class) does not understand the word “hunger.”