Guns in Church

“Only churches and bars are on that list” this article says referring to places concealed hand guns are banned in Arkansas.  Apparently they’re voting on lifting the ban.I have to say, I’m all for 2nd amendment rights, but I really have to wonder what would make this necessary.  For meetings of presbytery I would understand, [...]

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Quote for the Day:

I’m sharing today’s quote, not so much for its wisdom or insight as the date and proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves.  They have not reverence for parents or old age.  They are impatient of all restraint.  They talk as [...]

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Chambers v God

This was on John’s shared feeds this morning:
Should be interesting to the ruling in this case where a Nebraska Senator is suing God.

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Ignoring Beauty

Read this at John Piper’s blog this morning.  Makes me think of how the ancients understood the connection between the good, the true and the beautiful.

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The delirious melons of Valentius

I was reading Irenaeus’ ‘Against Heresies’ last night.  I’m in book one where Irenaeus lays out all the different gnostic beliefs, explaining in detail what they teach.  Not the most exciting reading, but it did have what has to be one of the funniest lines in the history of the Church’s writings, or at least [...]

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Last ‘comprehensible’ taboo

Saw this at the Touchstone blog.
Apparently the Sundance Film Festival has premiered a film about bestiality. A review is here. I noted that the person who wrote the review used the terms ‘elegant’ and ‘beautiful’ to describe this movie on a subject the director describes as “the last taboo, on the boundary [...]

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