Extra Thoughts

While the east coast is having snow, we're having cold, crisp autumn. Here was my post two years ago on autumn, travel, and coming hom...

I don't have time to write much about this, because I'm at work on a technical paper. But since I do occasionally write about Israel...

I'm blatantly using W4 as a jumping-off place for a post here, since I have been neglecting this personal blog lately. I hope that my es...

It's been a long time since I heard this song. It seems to have gotten left behind in the seventies. But it's a good 'un, even i...

Doctor Jenkins turned from the window and there was an almost imperceptible tautening of his whole frame. The Dean, with a slight smile, pus...

...will be stolen. See below. Meanwhile, my gift to Extra Thoughts readers is that I will not give a spiel on where I was and what I was do...

A few months ago I wrote this post on the connection between prose and passion in Christianity. Today I'm thinking about something a ...

Okay, time for another outbreak of Gospel music. I know we've had this one before, but hey...Ernie Haase with the Cathedrals, long ag...

This should not need to be said, but I've become aware (most recently through some reactions to a post at W4) that some in the evangelic...

This is an amazing video clip at Gates of Vienna: A reporter interviews a man who was an eyewitness to the raiding of his store. She'...

For anyone who is wondering, "What does Lydia McGrew think about the fact that London has burned for several nights in a row?" I...

From Adrian Green-Armytage, John Who Saw (1952) There is a world -- I do not say a world in which all scholars live but one at any rate int...

The issue of magic has been on my mind a bit lately, partly because of this post by Jeff Culbreath at W4. There are, I'm sure, many rea...

It has been a long time since I've learned of a new (to me) hymn that is actually old, historically--that I like, that is. It turns out ...

Below, I made a comment about Thomas Cranmer. In his response , commentator Alex mentioned in passing that he began to read a biography of C...

A happy 4th of July to all my readers. Here is "Under God" by the Booth Brothers: I used it in this post back in the winter at W4.

This will sound like a shameless ploy to get more comments, but I've decided to post it anyway: I've recently learned of a person wh...

In doing research for my Messiah post, below , I learned about the case , now several years old, of chaplain Michael Hiles. The basic facts ...

For Palm Sunday a few weeks back the epistle reading in the BCP was the famous kenosis passage from Philippians 2: Let this mind be in you, ...

In keeping with the digression in my Messiah post below (on Jesus' words, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me"), h...