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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 some relatively unknown carols (sung largely by cathedral...

Both insightful and devastating. http://www.robgagnon.net/NewsweekMillerHomosexResp.htm

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 he speaks of love as integral to justification? If he means that...

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 says: "It is Christ who protects us against...

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

"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 Bangalore. The Governor went on to...

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 twenty-four. Yes, 24. Her father's first marriage yielded seventeen kids. After his wife...

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 Co-Operative at `The Happening' (formerly...

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 very painful to thee; but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it. He sends the...

Phil Ryken was interviewed by our friends over at Christ the Center. You can listen here .