“the ineffable enjoyment of an unmixed good”
One of my best friends called me yesterday and asked me to write a letter to his oldest son, who just graduated from high school. At All Saints we’ve just started a sermon series that will follow the Old Testament…
Covenant Seminary offers online courses (for free)
Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, alma mater of both Bill and Tim, is now offering a selection of courses online as part of their Covenant Worldwide Initiative. “Covenant Worldwide is a ministry of Covenant Theological Seminary to distribute a…
Mary Grace the Neurotic
“The book struck her directly over her left eye.” If I had a Top 5 Fiction Sentences list, which I probably should, this would be on it. Recently I re-read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation,” a story about people in…
Shouting about Nothing? A review of No Country for Old Men by Ethan and Joel Coen
If a tree falls in the forest and no one understands it, does it only make a noise? In 1957 Flannery O’Connor discussed the problems of communicating her message to an audience that didn’t share her worldview in her essay…
Men’s Breakfast 5.23.08
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and…
Amateur Christianity
Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. Matthew 13:45,46 The word amateur has fallen on…
Through a glass, darkly?
All Saints lacks a building, let alone stained glass windows. Quite the opposite is true in Europe where two new stained glass works have been crafted by two of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. Richter’s…