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50 Greatest Carols

This month’s BBC Music Magazine (Dec 08) contains a fascinating piece on the “50 Greatest Carols.” Over fifty choir directors from some of the prestigious cathedrals and music schools in Britain were asked to choose their top five. There are…

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More on the Pope and Justification

Well, how did I miss that? Scott Clark already had an excellent post on the subject. Here. At any rate, astute ref21 readers will have already correctly put their finger on the Pope’s crucial ambiguity. What does he mean when…

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The Pope on Justification by Faith and Love

Well, Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) preached an interesting sermon back in November, on Paul and justification. I’ve had a number of inquiries about it. Here‘s an English translation. Carl, I’d love to hear your assessment. In one portion, he…

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Happy Birthday, John Milton

Justin Taylor tells me that in honor of John Milton’s 400th birthday he has posted an interview with my father here: https://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/12/interview-with-leland-ryken-about.html.  As my dad would say, please support your local Milton scholar.

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A Cry from India

“My beloved Christian brethren, my endearing believers in the Holy Spirit, we cannot remain impotent, indecisive, and mute spectators.”  Thus said the Governor of Maharashtra — where Mumbai is located, scene of the recent bombings — in an impassioned speech at…

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While having lunch with one of my students, Ed, I asked him about his family.  His mother, he told me, was the only sister to six brothers.  This is interesting enough, but then he told me she’s actually one of…

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Helpful Advent Webpage

After a six month sabbatical at the Wimmin’s Empowerment Conversational and Non-Competitive Poetry and Mime Commune in Maine, I am ready to take up my role once again as the Non-Hierarchical Chief Sister in the Barbra Streisand Bible Exploration Ecological…

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Spurgeon on Winter in the Soul

A friend, who is enduring winter in the soul herself, sent me this nugget from Spurgeon this morning: “Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season, and if it be upon thee just now it will be…