Armor sitting on the floor does you no good

Yesterday’s sermon included the rather familiar passage about putting on the armor of God – but with an emphasis on the fact that God provides the armor, but you have to put it on. A lot of Christians seem to miss that, the pastor said. Their armor, so to speak, sits on the floor, and [...]

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Exsultate justi

Via Michael Potemra, some music written by Franciscan friar/composer Lodovico Viadana (1560-1627):

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Bertin goes searching for clues

A couple of chapters from Not Exactly Allies: 46 – BERTIN GOES SEARCHING FOR CLUES A few days later, Bertin Nason decided he was tired of sitting around hoping someone came up with information on the Arab boy’s murder, or on undercover communists of a latter-day mutant variety, or on the ambusher Jean Blondet, or [...]

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The Founders’ Faith

Some American history, from Citizen Magazine (emphasis in original): …Today, there are some — mainly on the Left — who paint the Founders not as Christians but as Deists, believers in an impersonal creator who left his creations to fend for themselves. But while that description fits less than a handful of the Founders, to [...]

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, revisited

From Mr. Smith and The Ides of March, by Robinson O’Brien-Bours: While both Clooney’s and Capra’s films depict a political system rife with corruption, there is a hugely important difference between the two. Clooney’s dark and pessimistic tale brings no closure to it, and no hope; one leaves the theater with a bitter sense of [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Updated)

1. Does anyone know which Bible translation(s) the American Founding Fathers were using? It’s my understanding that the Pilgrims used the Geneva Bible (which I’m reading on Kindle in a 1587 edition), but it occurs to me that (off the top of my head) I don’t know what the Founders were hauling with them to [...]

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A little art history (and why so much of it today is ugly)

From “Life Imitates Art: Redeeming Pop Culture” (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Commentary, September 22, 1999): …Up until the Enlightenment, art was seen as a way of expressing profound truths. Not necessarily literal truth; yet even symbols and metaphors reflect something true about reality—like portraying angels with wings or saints with halos. Beauty itself was seen as [...]

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What makes something right or wrong?

It matters what you base your ethics on.

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“Marriage is Like a Garden”

A Christian love letter (and the story behind it).

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