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Quotables: Angels in the Architecture

Angels in the Architecture:A Protestant Vision for Middle Earthby Douglas Jones and Doug Wilson Part of learning to celebrate includes learning how to splurge and not be so tightly utilitarian. Our culture is so wicked in its neglect of savings and its slavery to plastic credit that we, with some right, run the other direction. But if your house is in order, it’s time to learn how to splurge at times. Beauty isn’t cheap… {p. 83-84} The Bible tells us Continue Reading…
February 20, 2010
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
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
Quotables: Angels in the Architecture

Angels in the Architectureby Doug Jonesand Doug Wilson Whenever the subject of worldview comes up, we Protestants–especially we Reformed Protestants–typically think of philosophy. And that is really too bad. We think of intellectual niggling. We think of theological lint picking. We think of the brief and blinding oblivion of ivory tower speculation, of thickly obscure tomes, and of inscrutable logical complexities. In fact, a worldview is as practical as garden arbors, public manners, whistling at work, dinner-time rituals, and architectural Continue Reading…
August 14, 2009