On November 4-5 we’re running 200 miles across the state of Tennessee, in about 36 hours, with 12 runners and two support vans, all for one great cause. Once again, “Team Sum Ergo Zoom” will be taking on the 2011 Ragnar Relay. Just as we di…
Better to Be Underestimated
Known for his witty style, the amazingly prolific author G.K. Chesterton wrote in many genres, including fiction, biography, poetry,theology, history, as well as a myriad of essays. He was one of the most belovedwriters in England during the first part…
What to Remember When Reading the Bible
1. Remember the one, centralstory: the whole Bible is about just one thing. The pattern of creation, fall,redemption, and restoration runs throughout the Old and New Testaments.2. Remember that the Bibleis its own best commentary. The Word interprets i…
True Delight
“He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man. The Lord favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.” Psalm 147:10-11
Oxford and Tolkien
Few provincial cities anywhere are more crowded withincident and achievement than the English University city of Oxford. In a shortstroll visitors may pass the house where Edmund Halley discovered his comet;the site of Britain’s oldest public museum, t…
Free Agents and Non-Partisans
“It appears to us that a Christian minister cannot keep himself in the true path of consistency at all, without refusing to each of the parties all right of appropriation. . . He who cares for neither of two rivaling political parties is the onl…
Over My Morning Joe
“What are the objects of mathematical science? Magnitude and the proportions ofmagnitude. But in the foolishnessof my youth, I had forgotten the two chief magnitudes: I thought not of thelittleness of time and I recklessly thought not of …
Sorrow, But for a Time
“There are no crown-wearers in Heaven who were not first cross-bearers on earth.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon”You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.” Samuel Rutherford
How Does That Go Again?
Thirty days hath September,April, June, and November;February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap-year, that’s the timeWhen February’s days are twenty-nine.
Anacreon in Heaven
The War of 1812 had been fiercely raging for two years when Francis Scott Key,a Washington attorney was sent to the British naval command to secure therelease of a prisoner when the fleet began to bombard the placements of Americanfortifications in Bal…
Little Questions
By all accounts, the very first catechism—a manual ofChristian doctrine drawn up in the form of questions and answers for thepurpose of instruction in thefaith—was compiled by the English scholar Alcuin sometime in the 8thcentury. It wa…
My Picks for Most Significant Archeological Discoveries
1. The Rosetta Stone2. The Dead Sea Scrolls3. Assurbanipal’s Library at Nineveh4. Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem5. Kibbutz Ginnosar Boat6. The Ebla Library7. The City of Troy8. Caesarea Maritima9. Sodom and Gomorrah10. The City of Pompeii11. Kin…
Quo Vadis?
Henryk Sienkiewicz was aninternational phenomenon a century ago–at the end of the nineteenth and thebeginning of the twentieth centuries. He was trained in both law and medicine. He was a respected historian. He was a successful journ…