Good morning! Grace and peace to you. Westminster Books has a heavy-duty new set of books on sale. (Yesterday on the blog: The God Who Counts the Cost) Music And Lyrics “The world is a symphony: exquisite and detailed and beautiful. But for all of its music, there is one thing that the world cannot supply on its own. The world has music—but it doesn’t have lyrics. That’s where we come in.” Coming Home (Video) You’ll enjoy this catchy new …
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We are nothing if not rash—nothing if not prone to making vows that are impulsive, promises we cannot keep. Sometimes we deliver on them only partially and at other times we fail altogether. “It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay,” says the Sage. But too often we do exactly that—we fail utterly to pay what we owe, to come through as we have promised. This is true of our greatest vows …
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The Lord bless you and keep you today. Wordle and Our Longing for the Limited Chris Martin reflects on an interesting cultural phenomenon: “The most consequential cultural phenomenon of this, the year of our Lord, 2022 is a once-a-day word game made by a computer coder for his significant other.” Laughter 101: Why Humor Matters for the Christian Life “How many philosophers does it take to explain a joke? Quite a few, as it turns out. And not only philosophers. …
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May the God of love and peace be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals include some books for adults and some of kids. (Yesterday on the blog: Do You Knock at the Gates of the Grave?) How and when was the canon of Scripture established, and by whom? (Video) Stephen Nichols does a great job of describing how the canon of Scripture was established. It’s February: Check on Your Single Friends Lisa LaGeorge asks us to remember our single friends …
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There is a sense in which we are less familiar with death than our forebears, more insulated from its horrors. Of course the death rate in the twenty-first century is identical to every century before and every century to come—“it is appointed for [each and every] man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” So perhaps it is better to say we are less familiar with what we consider premature death—the death of infants, children, and young adults. Because …
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