It’s National Poetry Month, and I haven’t done much poetry. It’s been one of those months so far, fast and furious and full of sounds, signifying I’m-not-sure-what-yet. At any rate, here’s a poem by one of my favorite people, G.K. Chesterton. Does anybody know of a good, well written, popular biography of Chesterton? I’ve read …
Category Archive: Christian History
Mar 31
Eucatastrophic Resurrection
I was thinking about the resurrection of Jesus on the way home from church this morning, this being Easter Sunday and all. I’m going to try to reconstruct my thoughts here in this post, but we’ll see how successful I am. You know when you’re reading a story, especially a thriller or a mystery and …
Mar 30
Edith Schaeffer, 1914-2013
Edith Schaeffer, wife of theologian and Christian apologist Francis Schaeffer, and an author and teacher in her own right, died today and went to be with the Lord. I knew her through her books, some of which were and are my favorites. I’ve read and enjoyed the ones in boldface. 1969. L’Abri. 1971. The Hidden …
Feb 24
Bad Religion by Ross Douthat
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has written a useful, compact history of the progression of Christian thought and heresy from the rise of modernism in the 1920′s (and again in the 1960′s)to the post-WW II revival of Christian neo-orthodoxy to the dissolution …
Dec 12
12/12/12: Themes of My Life
These are the twelve themes or ideas or motifs that God has placed in my heart, and consequently the 12 Big Ideas that appear most often here on Semicolon. 1. Books. I have a houseful of books I read lots and lots of books, probably over 100 per year. I love books; I live inside …
Dec 07
Christmas in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1734
From A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God by Jonathan Edwards. And then it was, in the latter part of December, that the spirit of God began extraordinarily to set in, and wonderfully to work amongst us; and there were, very suddenly, one after another, five or six persons, who were to all …
Oct 01
INSPY Shortlists
The INSPY Advisory Board is pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2011 INSPY Awards. Creative Nonfiction Little Princes by Conor Grennan, William Morrow, January, 2011. Semicolon review here. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp, Zondervan, January, 2011. Anne Voskamp started a list of 1000 reasons to be grateful to God. She ended up with …
May 08
Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines
Toward the end of Johann Sebastian Bach’s life, he met Frederick the Great of Prussia. This book looks at the history of the early eighteenth century through the lives of these two men and the events that led up to their historic meeting in 1747. Bach, an honored and devout musician, was sixty-two years old …
CYBILS
Preschool Curriculum:
Click on the pic to check it out:
180
Link to the Saturday Review
Subscribe/Save
Recent Comments