July 2012
14 posts
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Analogy is a discourse of truth that has disabused itself of the notion that...
– David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite (h/t)
As has not been the case in the long Christian hegemony of the West, now the...
– Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament, The Canon and Christian Imagination, 27
(via yuceka)
I’m often irritated by Brueggemann, but I fully endorse this.
Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)...
– Freedom of Worship’s Assault on Freedom of Religion | First Things (via ayjay)
The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but...
– T. S. Eliot, Thoughts After Lambeth (1931)
“I recently read an article that depicted a heated exchange between a seminary...
– Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (via hulga-joy)
I try to avoid logical fallacies. And I think far too many people are ignorant...
– epiklesis: Logic and Truth
This needs to be unpacked, but is correct.
The question for an adult reader of Lewis Caroll, however, is not the author’s...
– W.H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords (via gmd)
People will often cite hard work and a high degree of motivation as the secret...
– Learning to Program (via ayjay)
To be truly man means to be fully oneself. The confirmation is the confirmation...
– » Fr. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy (1963)
No other piece of punctuation so compactly captures the way in which our...
– Semicolons: A Love Story - NYTimes.com
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The church is rightly concerned with issues of poverty, health, education, and...
– Dana Gioia, interviewed by Erika Koss in Image #73. (via giftsoutright)
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It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is...
– George MacDonald (via georgemacdonald)
It all comes down to the mystery of the relationship between the mind and the...
– Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (via hulga-joy)
The man who takes seriously the command of Christ to take up his cross and...
– W.H. Auden, via Nick Nowalk. Part of me would love to have this printed on all my business cards. (via bluedollar)