A blog I recommend others read, because it is a valued cobelligerant in contending for Biblical sanity generally and in the area of sexuality in particular, recently posted something about beards. It was a snippet from an early Father of the Church, Clement of Alexandria, who offered these words:
But for one who is a man [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 30, 2008
About Beards
April 22, 2008
Eleven Years Ago
On the anniversary of the death of our third daughter Francesca Louise (aka Cheska), my wife sends out a remembrance to friends and family. Here is the one she sent out this year:
Francesca died 11 years ago this afternoon. As you may remember I am making it my habit to write short memories about her [...]
April 19, 2008
Vile, Mindless Idiocy
Two things incline a Christian’s heart toward eternity – the lure of heaven and its glories, and revulsion with the world we are departing. The lure is usually fainter, for our glory is unimaginable for our world-darkened minds. But, revulsion with this world is usually never very strong, and so the Scripture exhorts us against [...]
April 18, 2008
Next Time She’ll Wear Skirts
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal is one of the few commentators to consistently analyze the “gender dynamics” of the Democrats’ presidential primary in this election cycle. In her June 27, 2007 column, Noonan put her finger squarely on Hillary’s problem: “Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to prove she’s a man. She has to [...]
April 17, 2008
Death By Blogging
On April 6, 2008, the New York Times ran a feature story by Matt Richtel which reported the following:
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at [...]
