Blest with that loveliest of all adorning

From the Preface by the Writer in The War Romance of the Salvation Army, by Grace Livingston Hill, c 1919, J. T. Lippincot Company (online here): After the privilege of close association with them for some time I have come to feel that the most noticeable and lovely thing about the girls is the way they wear their [...]

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The Saturday Review of Books…

… is up and growing at Semicolon.

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Book note: The War Romance of the Salvation Army, by Grace Livingston Hill

Yesterday, while shifting books around to freshen up the display at the check-out counter, I decided I needed a mass market Christian novel to round things out. So over I tootled to that section, and dug around – and picked out a book by Grace Livingston Hill, who still sells well decades after her death. But… After [...]

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God’s questions

This winsome post by Angie Smith (House of Mercy, at Bring the Rain, Nov. 1, 2009) begins: I have long been fascinated by the questions that the Lord asks in the Bible. It started when I was reading through Genesis (one of my favorite books of the Bible, seriously) and I came to the part [...]

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Liberty, Power, and Principles

The following is from a letter Donald J. Boudreaux sent to the Washington Post: Speculations centered on party struggles are tiresome. The real struggle is between persons who love liberty and persons enthralled with power.  A liberty lover refuses to exercise power over others and, therefore, has solid principles upon which he can stand when [...]

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Kevin DeYoung’s October Book Log

Kevin DeYoung, Senior Pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, is one of the few people out there who can do a book review in one or two sentences. (OK, up to four, in some cases.) It’s an interesting book list he just put out, if you are interested in religion, politics, or effective compassion.

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And the wall came tumbling down

David Pryce-Jones remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, with some behind-the-scenes reporting. Meanwhile, “President Barack Obama has RSVPed “nein” to Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. National Review Online asked a few experts what this snub reveals about our current president.” Well, [...]

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Creation vs Evolution: Hope, Faith, Random

Some humerous short videos you might enjoy: Creation vs. Evolution: Hope Creation vs. Evolution: Faith Creation vs. Evolution: Random Is it my imagination, or are there some really appealing, charming, talented Christian actors putting their talents to good use these days? I think both men in this series do a really good job. Great teamwork, guys, [...]

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Bad ‘science,’ scary treaties and policies

Political activists have long since co-opted a large part of the environmental movement for their own purposes, and, by passing off what they’re doing as science they’re damaging the good name of science, too. Now, they’re jockeying to have nations promise to be under the authority of activists on matters pertaining to climate change.  Lord [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Nov. 6, 2009

1. What do you do when you accidentally don’t get all the pockets emptied in a load of laundry and wind up with bits of soggy facial tissue all over everything? Seriously, what works? This week my husband and I both have the punies (as we say around here when you’re sick, but not sick enough [...]

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