Month: February 2007

• Doug Wilson, on Eucharist: “…do not close your eyes…”

  BLOG and MABLOG For many centuries, the Church has been cultivating the bad habit of seeing this time of communion a time of introspection. But if there is anything that is a barrier to communion, it is the self-absorption that we have come to associate with this meal. So, as you come, do not curl…

• Peter Leithart: Modesty – the Awareness that Knowledge has a Time.

  Leithart.com | Liturgical Thinking The destruction of time meant the destruction of shame and modesty: “Shame is the soul’s garment against arbitrary and untimely knowledge: because timing is the condition in which alone the eternal may be revealed.” It takes time for a bride to know her lover, and modesty is the veil over that…

• Alister McGrath on Dawkins: “an embarassment to atheists”.

  The Kindlings Muse » Guest Blog: ALISTER McGRATH. “Do stop behaving as if you are God, Professor Dawkins.” Dawkins, Oxford University’s Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, is on a crusade. His salvo of outrage and ridicule is meant to rid the world of its greatest evil: religion. “If this book works as I…

• C.S. Lewis: “…my desire for Paradise…”

  ..[W]e remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? ‘Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.’ But I think it may be urged that this misses the point. A man’s physical hunger does not prove…

• Doug Wilson: Bland Leading the Bland

  Bland Leading the Bland “The churches today are effeminate because effeminate men with wireless mikes and cardigan sweaters stroll around a platform chatting with the congregants in a nonthreatening and relational way. The churches are leaderless because we are nervous about prophetic preaching, and settle instead for bland and balanced leadership teams. The churches have…