February 2012
30 posts
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or...”
– Thomas Merton (via modernhepburn)
“We should not pass over the mysterious meaning of ‘tabret and harp’ in silence....”
– Augustine, Discourses on the Psalms, commenting on Psalm 149:3, “Let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp.” (via wesleyhill)
“Like any Christian (and indeed any theist), I believe that the world has been...”
– Alvin Plantinga
“The child must be brought up free (that he allow others to be free). He must...”
– Immanuel Kant on raising children.
Part III : Selection on Education from Kant’s other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 3
Teach Me.
You are Everything.
I am nothing.
The Silent Killer
I’m not sure how many of you saw the Grammys last night, but I had the unfortunate displeasure of viewing most of it.
What has happened to music? What has happened to people in general? Why do we spit on the beautiful? (I would do well to remind you it isn’t the first time, Matthew 6:67.)
I think the argument may be able to be made that our culture is in the same dreadful position...
“(Will Christianity do me good?)
All right, Christianity will do you good—a...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Man and the Rabbit
