On May 18th the Ryman here in Nashville will host the first concert in a 36-city tour featuring the pioneers of contemporary Christian music: Andrae Crouch, Chuck Girard, Evie Tornquist, Randy Stonehill, and the Archers. According to Evie, “The One Way Experience Tour,” will hopefully “rekindle a pilot light in many of our hearts.” Indeed, just thinking about the concert …
Ultimately
Ultimately—is a very fine word For a more than rarified notion; Ultimately—though it seems absurd, It might even be quaffed in a potion: Surreptitiously with soda or nog, Or serendipitously on someone’s blog. Ultimately—it’s an eleventary aside, For a band that’s not twelve or ten or seven; It’s not either three or five—but eleven. Mattie, …
Moral Philosophy Lessons from Modernity
1. Ideas have consequences. 2. Worldviews matter. 3. Right and wrong are not adjustable in accord with clock and calendar. 4. There is no virtue in celebrating vice. 5. Just as there are no victimless crimes, there are no victimless sins. 6. Principled opposition to the reigning shibboleths is not hate or fear. 7. Advocacy is not tolerance. 8. Insults …
Priming the Tastebuds for Our UK Trip
1. Pret a Manger: Charing Cross 2. Nero’s Coffee: St. James Piccadilly 3. Barbacoa: St. Paul’s 4. Wagamama’s: Tower of London 5. Jamie’s Italian: Covent Garden 6. The Eagle: Cambridge 7. The Borough Market: Southwark 8. West Cornwall Pasty: Victoria 9. Nandos Peri-Peri: Brighton 10. Maoz Falafel: Leicester Square 11. Recipease: Bighton
Painted Repentance
In the striking painting, The Raising of the Cross, Rembrandt was not so much creating an illustration of a Bible scene as he was making a very personal confession of sin and a profession of faith. Rembrandt places himself in the painting twice: the first of his alter egos is the man who cruelly thrusts the cross upwards and into …
A Prayer in Spring
The iconic American poet, Robert Frost, had a beautiful answer for what Sociologists and Psychologists often call either “Mindset Scarcity” or “Foreboding Joy.” He called it “A Prayer in Spring.” Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the …
Abortionist’s House of Horrors Murder Trial Begins
This just in from The New American magazine: The trial of a Philadelphia abortionist charged with murdering babies born alive began March 18, as the defense accused officials of pursuing “an elitist, racist prosecution” of the man who ran what has been termed a “house of horrors” abortion clinic. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the 72-year-old physician who owned and operated the West Philadelphia clinic, is …
St. Patrick’s Lorica (Breastplate)
I bind unto myself today The strong Name of the Trinity, By invocation of the same The Three in One and One in Three. I bind this today to me forever By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation; His baptism in Jordan river, His death on Cross for my salvation; His bursting from the spicèd tomb, His riding up the heavenly …
The Acts of the Apostles
Beginning this Sunday at Parish we’ll begin a new series in the Book of Acts–a series that will take us through the rest of 2013.
A Plethora of Sites
1. Our primary ministry blog: http://grantian.blogspot.com 2. Our church website: http://parishpres.org 3. Our school’s website: http://www.franklinclassical.com 4. The college website: http://newcollegefranklin.org 5. Our coop website: http://www.thecomeniusschool.com 6. Our study center website: http://kingsmeadow.com 7. This site, just for fun: http://eleventary.blogspot.com 8. Our pro-life blog: http://ppgi.blogspot.com 9. Our blog for the Parish Life Network: http://parishlife.blogspot.com 10. Our seldom updated (shame, shame) running blog: http://deruns.blogspot.com; which is a corollary of our running team …
Ye Distant Spires
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, Hold me in thy sway; Make me see, make me flee, Unto thy rich array. For there amidst, and there consist The root and branch and leaf, Of faith and hope and love persist In this, the world of grief. –Tristan Gylberd
Burns Night
Tonight is “Burns Night.” The birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) has become an occasion for Scotsmen, their descendents, and their romantic wannabes, to gather together wherever they may be to the lilt of bagpipers and the strains of Burns’ poetry. Celebrants traditionally enter the rooms with the shout, “Hail Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin-Race.” While the drinking of …
My Friend
You have, to be sure, known pain and fear, And the anguish of failure and frustration are near; Yet your eyes read companionship not distance, Your home beckons forth, with no hint of resistance; Indeed, your cloak, though threadbare, is half mine, You are my friend, and I, most assuredly, am thine. –Tristan Gylberd
Weird Science
Watkins’ Bookshop in Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross between Leicester Square and Covent Garden in London, was established in 1891 by John Watkins, and is still London’s premier occult bookstore. One of its most famous customers was Carl Gustav Jung, who would together with Sigmund Freud, pioneer the field of psychology and psychotherapy. Watkins became Jung’s publisher, producing the1925 …
Favorite Architecture Sites
1. dpz.com 2. beauxartsatelier.org 3. patternlanguage.com 4. classicist.org 5. qftarchitects.com 6. fosterandpartners.com 7. hopeforarchitecture.com 8. newurbanism.org 9. michaelgraves.com 10. cnu.org 11. sacredarchitecture.org