Gerald Ford died yesterday. He was a well-beloved president and one can hear approving remarks about him from people on all points of political spectrum. He brought a moral stability to the presidency after the horror and betrayal of watergate. He and his cabinet used succesful economic strategies to confront the most pressing problems of [...]
Archive for December, 2006
December 28, 2006
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Thoughts on Death and Leadership
By Keith E. D. Buhler in All Things Lovely, America
December 27, 2006
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Mr. Jonathan David Taylor’s Review of Sufjan’s Come On and Feel the Illinoise
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Outside Articles of Interest, Reviews (Music)I bought the Sufjan Steven’s Come On and Feel the Illinoise indie rock CD on his recommendation, which was well worth it. I’m spinning it on iTunes as we speak, soaking up its art, beauty, and humor. Joe Carter, of Evangelical Outpost and FRC fame, mentioned that he had gotten into Steven’s based on this [...]
December 22, 2006
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Active Christian Media Review: The Train-of-Thought Writing Method
By Tex in Reviews, Reviews (Books)In writing, “The real question is: How do you effectively take [your] ideas and convert them to saleable manuscripts?” (xiii) Kathi Macias, journalist, essayist, editor, poet, and author, delivers a simple and practical how-to book all about transforming ideas into manuscripts that effectively communicate an author’s message to his or her readers. Building upon a [...]
December 22, 2006
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More on Icons of Sinai: Moses Simultaneously at the Burning Bush and Receiving the Law
By Andrew McKnight Selby in All Things LovelyMatthew had a good post on his experience of the Icons of Sinai exhibit. I, too, enjoyed this exhibition. The second time I went, I took the Exhibition Tour, which begins at 3 p.m. daily. That gave me some context in the composition of the icons, though the meaning of the images themselves is accessible [...]
December 21, 2006
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Finding the Good: a Couple of Positives of Eragon
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Reviews (Films)Some time ago I wrote enthusiastically of Hugh Hewitt’s advice to “find the good and praise it.” Well, it is difficult to find much good in the much-panned film, Eragon, that hit theatres this past Friday. Nevertheless, I shall point out two benefits of an otherwise regrettable film. First, the fact that the film is [...]
December 20, 2006
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Icons of Sinai
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsThe Getty here in LA is currently featuring icons from the the St. Catherine’s Monastery near Mt. Sinai in Egypt. The exhibit is well laid out–one room actually arranges the icons as they are in the main sanctuary of St. Catherine’s. The collection is rarely allowed outside of the monastery, so having the opportunity to [...]
December 20, 2006
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Playlist for a Trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix
By Matthew Lee Anderson in All Things LovelyFirst, start off strong with a little Beethoven. Or a lot of Beethoven, depending on how you quantify it. His 2nd and 4th piano concerti (concertos?) will put you in the mood for the impending drive. It’s important to get the trip started on the right foot, so what better place to turn than the [...]
December 18, 2006
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With Andrew Murray in Christ’s School of Prayer
By Andrew McKnight Selby in The Soul, TheologyI recently began to read Andrew Murray’s spiritual classic, With Christ in the School of Prayer. The missionary to Africa bids his fellow disciples in Christ to beg with the 12, “Lord, teach us to pray.” Murray’s philosophy of the education of prayer is thoroughly classical. His desire for the student is two-fold. First, the [...]
December 17, 2006
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Chatting with Ramesh: Notes from a Blogger’s Conference Call with Ramesh Ponnoru
By Matthew Lee Anderson in FRC Conference Calls, Pro-LifeThis last week I had the privilege of joining a blogger’s conference call with Ramesh Ponnoru, a smart guy who writes over at The Corner and has written The Party of Death. The call was hosted by the Family Research Council’s very own Joe Carter, who came up with the idea of connecting Washington insiders [...]
December 15, 2006
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Deja Vu: Repeating the Midsummer Night’s Dreaming
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Literature, Meaning and HermeneuticsHere’s the final version of the paper I sent in for my grad school application. I made a few subtle, yet important changes in my wording in order to (hopefully!) make my thesis more clear. While I am not sure I specifically address this question by the Bourgeois Burglar (though I do in the comments [...]
December 15, 2006
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leriWinner_49, Leave us Alone!
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Life in generalTurns out this IPO has exactly the same content as Mere Orthodoxy! We’ve received around 100 spam posts from it the last few days. You can’t see them, though, because the handy WordPress spam filter has protected the blog from being disfigured by them. And you wonder why we make you login.
December 13, 2006
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Midsummer Night’s Dreaming: An Analysis
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Literature, Meaning and HermeneuticsSo, the following paper has consumed my attention the last week. My grad school application is now due in 72 hours, and I am finally “finished” with my paper. It was harder to write than I thought it would be–literature papers always are, for some reason. Anyway, if any of you literary types (ahem?) are [...]
December 7, 2006
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More About Evangelicalism
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Evangelicalism, Pro-Life, Theology (Church)Matthew L. Anderson linked to an article by Dr. Matt Jensen of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola a few days ago, which sparked some fruitful discussion in the comments section. I emailed Dr. Jensen to see what he had to say on the interpretation of his article and he gave me permission to post [...]