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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Christian Theology 101: One mind with God
Via JC Ryle's Holiness:Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, one characteristic of holiness: "Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find his mind described in Scripture."Ryle makes these points about what "one mind"...
Christian Theology 101: Justification versus sanctification
Via JC Ryle's Holiness:Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots, the difference between justification and holiness: "Justification is the reckoning and counting a man to be righteous for the sake of another, even Jesus Christ the Lord. Sanctification is the...
Ave atque vale by Donald Kagan – The New Criterion
Via Instapundit and New Criterion: What is a liberal education and what it is for? From Cicero’s artes liberales, to the attempts at common curricula in more recent times, to the chaotic cafeteria that passes for a curriculum in most American universities today, the...
Near-Earth Objects, Part 3 | Books and Culture
Via Christianity Today: Systematic search programs have dramatically increased the rate of discovery of NEOs and lowered the risk of impact. As of 1990, only 134 NEOs had been discovered. Today, more than 8,800 have been identified. No large asteroid yet discovered is...
Near-Earth Objects, Part 3 | Books and Culture
Via Christianity Today: Systematic search programs have dramatically increased the rate of discovery of NEOs and lowered the risk of impact. As of 1990, only 134 NEOs had been discovered. Today, more than 8,800 have been identified. No large asteroid yet discovered is...
Near-Earth Objects, Part 2 | Books and Culture
Via Christianity Today: This is the first book-length treatment (that I know of) of the NEO problem that aims to describe that problem to audiences not familiar with it. It only partially succeeds in doing that, mainly because the writing shifts between popular and...
Near-Earth Objects, Part 2 | Books and Culture
Via Christianity Today: This is the first book-length treatment (that I know of) of the NEO problem that aims to describe that problem to audiences not familiar with it. It only partially succeeds in doing that, mainly because the writing shifts between popular and...
They Will Know Us By Our Angry Blogs
Via Christianity Today: the disembodied, instantaneous nature of today's Internet communication cultivates and rewards acrimony where there should be love. To this point, Alastair Roberts observed in response to a recent blogosphere brush-up an "almost pathological...