i believe…

A few articles of faith on the sovereignty of God in history
I believe that God can and will bring good out of evil, even out of the greatest evil. For that purpose he needs men who make the best use of everything. I believe that God will give us all the strength we [...]

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exercising dominion

Picking up on my previous post, where does true dominion, as opposed to tyranny and oppression, begin?  Man is created to rule the world.  Where do we start?  Clearly, we start by being in Christ, by faith.  But what then?
We start by learning to be subject.
Dominion begins first by being joyfully subject to God.  Disobedience [...]

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quality

One trembles to think what Dietrich Bonhoeffer would have made of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter. These words, written from prison, are as relevant to 21st century England as they were in 1940s Germany. In the face of trivial, ephemeral egalitarianism, and worship at the shrine of celebrity, we need men and women who [...]

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sloth

The Church names the sixth Deadly Sin Acedia or Sloth. In the world it calls itself Tolerance; but in Hell it is called Despair. It is the accomplice of the other sins and their worst punishment. It is the sin which believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with [...]

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envy

Hand in hand with Covetousness goes its close companion – Invidia or Envy, which hates to see other men happy. The names by which it offers itself to the world’s applause are Right and Justice, and it makes a great parade of these austere virtues. It begins by asking, plausibly: ‘Why should not [...]

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no crooked tables

How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life? The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should [...]

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clear-sighted reading

Understanding Scripture is not primarily a science, but nor is it primarily an art. In fact, it is not primarily a matter of technique at all (importance as skill is); rather, at its heart, it is an ethical discipline, as Athanasius points out.
But for the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is [...]

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hart on human value

In an old edition of New Atlantis, David Bentley Hart has a beautifully written, and at times very funny article on the significance of Pope John Paull II’s Theology of the Body for contemporary bioethics. Reading Hart’s article (and also the one by Robert Jenson) made me want to read Theology of the Body [...]

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british doctors advocate murder

A moronic and evil proposal in the name of compassion on the family:
BRITAIN’S Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is calling on doctors to consider euthanasing “the sickest of newborns”, which it says can disable healthy families.The Sunday Times newspaper reported the proposal was in reaction to the number of such children who were surviving [...]

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