One day is like a thousand years
I’ve been on the road, and the church I attended Sunday had as part of its Scripture reading this text: “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years,...
View ArticleThe invention of the weekend
Monica Hesse on the invention of the weekend: Before weekends could be long, they first had to be weekends. For most of the 19th century and part of the 20th, there were none — there were simply weeks...
View ArticleLiving in two times
The post about “Happy New Year,” referring to the beginning of Advent and asking about why the last days of the church year aren’t really noted, made me realize that the church year is not supposed to...
View ArticleThe weekly holidays
What I don’t understand is why the militant secularists are expending so much energy to remove Christmas from the cultural calendar while ignoring Christianity’s more immediate influence on the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
January is named after the Roman deity Janus, the god of thresholds. He had two faces, one that looked back and one that looked forward. So that’s what we do on New Year’s. We look back on the year...
View ArticleWhat time is it?
In a story about how the rotation of the earth has slowed 2/1000 of a second over the last century, science writer Ivan Amato explains how dependent our technology is on extremely accurate...
View ArticleThe first day of summer and God’s promises
In our Bible class on Sunday, in which we studied the flood in Genesis, we read another one of those verses I never noticed before: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,...
View ArticleThree Score Years and Ten
Today I attain my Biblical allotment of three score years and ten, that is to say, 70 years. Everything else will be extra. Some thoughts on the advantages of getting old and reflections on Psalm 90
View Article“Christianity Is More Than True”
Christianity is true. But it is not just head-knowledge, nor is it just heart-knowledge. Joshua Pauling says we should recover the full sense of Christian reality by emphasizing the Biblical concepts...
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