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Doug Wilson

Quotables: Angels in the Architecture

Angels in the Architecture:A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth A ripe grape contains two parts, unmarried–an interior sugar juice and an exterior skin full of yeast. But if you marry and mix these parts by crushing a grape, it will start toward creating wine, a third distinct thing, new and yet the same–a “wine that maketh glad the heart of man” {Psalm 104:15}. In meditating on Christ’s miracle of creating wine, Augustine lamented that we accept the normal creation of Continue Reading…
September 24, 2009
Obama in the Classroom

As a homeschooling parent, I have found the uproar, both locally and nationally, over Obama’s attempt to speak directly to the approximately fifty million public school students…fascinating. Before I go on to explain why this is, I feel the need to repeat the quote I posted yesterday: The modern opium dream that education can be religiously neutral should be, in our minds, equivalent to the question of whether or not, to use Dabney’s phrase, “schoolrooms should be located under water Continue Reading…
September 4, 2009
Quotables: The Paideia of God

The Paideia of God:And Other Essays [S]eminary education in the United States has become the realm of parachurch organizations…, governed more by the rules of the academy and various secular accrediting agencies than by the rules of the Church, which someone once said was the pillar and ground of the truth. No one disputes that parachurch organizations have done good and, in some instances, have done much good. But Christ is the head of the Church, and He did not Continue Reading…
September 2, 2009
The Soldiers and the Victory

Two days ago, during Ambleside Time with E., we read this: Harold [of England] did not stop to gather his army together again, but set out as quickly as he could with the few soldiers he had. [snip] The fight was fierce and long. Sometimes it seemed as if the English would win, sometimes the Northmen. In the very thickest of the fight rode the two kings, each cheering on his men. [snip] But at last both Earl Tostig and Continue Reading…
September 2, 2009