Love, Hate, or the Russians did it [John 15]

There is a very long introduction to the text today, and it comes from a pagan. Because ESR has a good memory, and he summarizes the tactics of hate. ESR is American. He makes the observation that the last three enemies of the USA: the NSDAP, the… Read More

If not nard, then blood [John 12]

Yesterday's Sermon was interesting. The lecturer who took it, not our usual preacher (I live in a university town. Half the congregation have PhDs, and this man teaches at the local theological college) started out by noting that modern theologians… Read More

The revolutionary shitty poets.

The revolutionaries hate the poets . Art does not follow an ideology easily, and beauty, truth and honor have no place. The Bolsheviks were as blunt as the Antifa. They had no time for tradition or the old authors. Let the new Soviet man have his conscience shriven and his imagination lobotomized.
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The Muslim must choose Christ [Eph 4]

I have a theory, newly formed. Israel is not full. God is going to drive the Jews there. I may be wrong, very wrong, but Isaiah says that the Jews who are called by the name of the LORD will be gathered, even at the cost of nations. One can see that… Read More

Recycled country

Old stuff. Alison Kraus and Shaun Colvin covering Paul Simon. Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan. I have posted this, as the Kraus, before, but they are beautiful. Mandolin Orange covering Bob Dylan. Enjoy. There is much… Read More

Christmas

It is Christmas Morning, and the readings today are much longer than usual. For two reasons. I have a little more time, and this is one of the great and holy days for those who keep times and seasons -- which is all Christendom apart from the… Read More

Journey of the Magi and Carols: Advent Poetry.

If I have not posted this before it would be in error. I first read this when I discovered Eliot in High School. Eliot's later work requires that you have lived long enough to have grief written in your bones. He notes, when this was recorded by the BBC:
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