In the few years that I have been an Anglican, I have met a number of people who identify themselves as Anglo-Catholics. What these particular Anglo-Catholics mean by this, of course, is that they are Anglicans who see themselves in unbroken communion with the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church." What they do not mean is that they are Protestants. In fact, for some of th...
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My colleague Joe Henderson has been in a cave writing a doctoral dissertation. But today, he poked his head out long enough to relay his hesitancy to hug. 'I'm a handshaker, not a hugger,' Joe tells me. He's not alone. Fellow-blogger and colleague Fred Sanders is another non-hugger. For all of you non-huggers, then, and in the interest of equal representation, here is Joe's ver...
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...to speak sense into politics.
'There are two kinds of political issues, Party issues and Revolutionary issues. In a party issue, all parties are agreed as to the nature and justice of the social goal to be reached, but differ in their policies for reaching it. The existence of different parties is justified, firstly, because no party can offer irrefutable proof that its p...
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It is not easy to be partisan and fair. Dean Barnett was both. He was for his party, but not blind to the follies of his party. The nation needs more like him and now I learn we have lost the original.
Barnett proved the new media could be something more than it often is. It can be sensible, but still fun. He also proved (with his very New England accent!) that there are mor...
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Mr. Robert Thomas Llizo
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History
Professor at the Torrey Honors Institute
One morning last week, as I was driving to the Biola campus to teach a session on Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, I came across two vehicles with two very different sets of bumper stickers. One said “God Bless the World,” and the other, displaying his patriotism f...
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I lived in Europe for five years, and I noticed that one of the major differences between that continent and the United States is in the types of diversity they exhibit. Europe is better at multiculturalism, whereas the United States is better at multiethnicity. In the U.S., people are of all colors and races, but for the most part, it is a monolingual and (mostly) monocultur...
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Christianity is good for both men and women, even when it does not empower us. Americans often carry the illusion that empowering a person is always a good thing, but a moment of reflection clears up that optimistic fantasy. Bad people should not be empowered and good people already are.
Jesus Christ provides a way for men and women to become what they were created to be. ...
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What are the major events in the history of salvation, according to Christianity? If you made a little diagram with stick figures, what would you have to include? The choosing of Abraham, of course. The giving of the law, and the whole Mosaic ministry of God redeeming his people from Egypt and making them his own special people. How about the ministry and rule of David as...
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A few years ago, I taught the Chronicles of Narnia as part of a college course. I always feel odd teaching a class on books that people read for fun, books with a very high entertainment value. Isn't that what people outside the academy assume we're doing on campus: giving college credit for watching cartoons and reading comic books? So partly to salve my conscience, and pa...
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Samuel J. Stone (1839-1900) was an Anglican clergyman and poet whose claim to fame is that he wrote the hymn, The Church's One Foundation. But that's just the hit single off a great album. That hymn is from an interesting collection that Stone wrote in 1866 entitled Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles Creed. It's available online here.
Acco...
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What you get when you describe the story of Mansfield Park to Freddy Age Eight.
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Featured Essay
Recently I was asked the following:
"Fears about the economy. Anger on the campaign trail. Which concerns you most? How should we respond?"
Most of us should resolutely mind our own business in this crisis, act charitably toward neighbors in need, comfort the fearful, and resolutely vote against those who would use this crisis to expand their power. The temptation to res...
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