29 Jun 2015
Posted by Jake Meador 
Interesting excerpts from Gary Steward's fine work on Old Princeton. While Alexander’s program for social reform consisted primarily in energetic efforts to more broadly spread the gospel and Christian truth, others took a more radical approach. One such group who did not do so was the utopian socialists,...
Read more → 16 Jun 2015
Posted by Jake Meador 
Thomas Watson: Read the Bible with reverence. Think in every line you read that God is speaking to you. The ark wherein the law was put was overlaid with pure gold, and was carried on bars, that the Levites might not touch it. Exod 25: I4. Why was this, but to give reverence to the law? Read with seriousness....
Read more → 16 Mar 2015
Posted by Jake Meador 
A common frustration we hear about from new readers is that reading many of the posts at TCI feels like picking up a 500 page book on page 200. In other words, you feel as if you're stepping into the middle of a conversation and have no idea where it began or how it got to the bit you're coming in on. To address...
Read more → 26 Dec 2014
Posted by Jake Meador 
From CSL's Introduction to 16th Century English Literature: Dickens's Mrs Clennam, trying to expiate her early sin by a long life of voluntary gloom was doing exactly what the first Protestants would have forbidden her to do. They would have thought her whole conception of expiation papistical. On the Protestant...
Read more → 26 Dec 2014
Posted by Jake Meador 
From TS Eliot's Idea of a Christian Society: That liberalism may be a tendency towards something very different from itself, is a possibility in its nature. For it is something which tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined...
Read more → 05 Nov 2014
Posted by Jake Meador 
This review in Books & Culture on Rob and Kristen Bell's marriage book The Zimzum of Love is solid gold: The following is an edited transcript from the Summer 2011 editorial meeting of the Shadow Government of Religious Publishing, known in the industry as ShGoRP. The acronym rhymes with "corp."...
Read more →