Monthly Archives: September 2010

My Brush With Greatness

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 18, 2010

Maybe it is just me, but back in the day when I could stay up late enough to watch the talk shows I wondered what I would say if I were ever in Letterman’s audience and his staff chose me to talk about my encounter with a celebrity. One instance, and I mentioned this to… Read More→

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Mencken Day 2010

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 11, 2010

Tomorrow H. L Mencken would have turned 130. Today, to honor that anniversary, the folks at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore and the Mencken Society put on a program that included Jonathan Yardley, book critic at that Washington Post, giving the annual Mencken Day Lecture. What follows is from the newly published set of… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Why It Goes with Two-Kingdom Tuesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 10, 2010

Our mid-western correspondent alerted me to a piece over at American Vision which is critical of the recent resurgence of Calvinism — as in Young, Restless, and Reformed — for regarding personal salvation as the essence of Calvinism. For the author, TULIP is well and good. It affirms God’s sovereignty. But it hardly covers what… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Word Count

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 8, 2010

Assessing the historical significance of a person is not an activity that suits quantification. But when historians put together reference words such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, they need to assign word counts for subjects to control the project’s size and scope. In which case, the people with the more important biographies receive more space or… Read More→

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Tim Bayly Is Doing His Gilbert Tennent Impersonation Again

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 7, 2010

. . . and along the way denies the teaching and authority of Peter and Paul. That is, if you use the logic that Tim does in his drive-by post (comments are closed), then you may reach the conclusion that he (and by implication, his brother, David) consider the apostles (except for Matthew) to be… Read More→

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Confession of Faith or Health Care Legislation?

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 4, 2010

My confession of faith is not the Westminster Confession. It is the confession of my communion, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Of course, our confession bears many resemblances to the Westminster Confession. But if folks look at the publication of our confession, neatly produced by the Committee on Christian Education, it reads, the “Confession of Faith… Read More→

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The New York Times: A Better Way?

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 3, 2010

Many conservative Presbyterians and Reformed believe – along with the idea that no neutrality exists – that secular America is intolerant of red-blooded Christianity. The current alarm over gay marriage and abortion on demand is evidence of the Reformed-sky-is-falling-world-and-life-view. Could it be that consolation might come to these upset souls from the secularized (as opposed… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Keeping the Union Balls in the Air

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 1, 2010

So for my devotions this morning I used a prayer from Calvin and needed to pause to consider what I was requesting (I guess this an argument against forms). Calvin wrote (in French, of course): Grant, Almighty God, that since thou hast deigned in thy mercy to gather us to thy Church, and to enclose… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday On Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 1, 2010

I have encountered what seems to me a strange notion — in several places where Federal Vision Worldviewism has left its mark — that the differences between Reformed and Anglicans are not that great, and that historically speaking it is wrong to distinguish them. Along with this perspective usually comes great regard for Richard Hooker… Read More→

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