Tag: Christianity

• “One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s a small loss if the world’s as dull a place as you say.”

  -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair (Lewis), 144-145.

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  July 31, 2018

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  c s lewis, Christianity, chronicles of narnia, inspiration, materialism, narnia, puddleglum, religion

• I have criticised the appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam, I have criticised the murdering of apostates for no crime other than their disbelief. Far from attacking Muslims, I understand – as perhaps you do not – that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women. I am known as a frequent critic of Christianity and have never been de-platformed for that. Why do you give Islam a free pass? Why is it fine to criticise Christianity but not Islam?

  -Dawkins, Richard Dawkins event cancelled over his ‘abusive speech against Islam’.

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  June 21, 2018

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  Christianity, dawkins, islam, richard dawkins

• “All of us are engaged daily with works of art, even if we are neither professionals nor amateur artists. We read books, we listen to music, we look at posters, we admire flower arrangements. Art, as I am using the word, does not include just “high art”, that is, painting, sculpture, poetry, classical music, but also the more popular expressions – the novel, the theatre, the cinema, popular music and rock. In fact, there is a very real sense in which the Christian life itself should be our greatest work of art. Even for the great artist, the most crucial work of art is his life.”

  –Art and the Bible, Francis Schaeffer, 49.

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  June 6, 2018

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  art, Christianity, cinema, classical music, culture, film, francis schaeffer, high art, inspiration, life, life as art, literature, music, poetry, sculpture, society, writing

• [posting][opinion] Ceding INTJ Control: Part One

  

  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. -Proverbs 3: 5-6 When it comes to being a Type 5w6 INTJ, I’m a pretty happy camper. However, there are some times when I frustrate myself or catch…

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  April 28, 2018

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  advice, christian intj, Christianity, enneagram, ideas, inspiration, intj, life, meyers-briggs, opinion, type 5

• [posting][poetry] Redeemed

  

  I am the Bride, who walks in hope, Looking to the Lord of Love; But on my way, my eyes are caught. Within, a battle, not yet fought, Is lost, and drags me from above. Adulterous and wretched, I grope. I am the one who put Him on the Cross. The scoffer who deserves the…

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  April 2, 2018

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  a book of sacred verse, christian life, Christianity, cross, easter, inspiration, Jesus, life, poem, poetry, prayer, redemption

• “Our desiring model – our romantic theology – has emphasized that we are creatures who love first and foremost. The most basic way that we intend the world is on the affective order of love. This love constitutes our fundamental and governing orientation to the world. As such, our love is always ultimately aimed at a telos, a picture of the good life that pulls us toward it, thus shaping our actions and behavior. This orientation is something that comes before thinking; thus we’ve described it as precognitive. It is more at work at the level of the adaptive unconsciousness or the “social imaginary”. Our love is aimed from the fulcrum of our desire – the habits that constitute our character, or core identity. And the way our love or desire gets aimed in specific directions is through practices that shape, mold, and direct our love.”

  -James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, 80.

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  March 24, 2018

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  Christianity, cultural formation, culture, desire, ideas, love, prayer, relationships, social imaginary, society, worldview, worship

• “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

  

  -G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy  

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  March 15, 2018

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  chesterton, Christianity, g k chesterton, god

• [quote] Gerard Manley Hopkins – Pied Beauty

  

  Glory be to God for dappled things –    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;       For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;    Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;       And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange;    Whatever is…

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  March 14, 2018

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  Christianity, gerard manley hopkins, inspiration, literature, nature, poetry

• [YT] Francis Schaeffer – How Should We Then Live: The Revolutionary Age

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  March 13, 2018

  nonfiction, video

  art, christian cultural theory, Christianity, culture, european history, francis schaeffer, history, revolution

• War & the Female Draft: Ugly Logic

  

  … battles are ugly when women fight… [The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 10.48] C.S. Lewis’s quote has become once again relevant as drafting women has become something for serious consideration among the American Chiefs of State. Although I am not a hundred percent certain where I stand on the matter, I have become…

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  February 4, 2016

  thought piece

  Christianity, culture, female draft, feminism, opinion, war, writing