Category Archives: English

Into the Halfway House

One of the most eloquent testimonies I’ve read recently is Michael Rennier’s Into the Half-Way House. Michael received a BA in New Testament Literature from Oral Roberts University in 2002 and a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2006. … Continue reading

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Charity About Differences

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and … Continue reading

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The Secret Knowledge

Here’s a brief extract from David Mamet’s amusing new book, The Secret Knowledge (p 137): A writer’s life is lived, and, I think, must be lived, in solitude. For it is a dialog with one’s own thoughts, and often, a … Continue reading

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Examined Lives

James Miller describes one path through the history of ideas in his book Examined Lives: from Socrates to Nietzsche. However, as Edward Feser points out in his review in the June/July 2011 First Things, the book places more emphasis upon … Continue reading

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Polonius Got What He Deserved

Polonius got what he deserved when, hiding behind the curtain in the queen’s bedchamber, he is stabbed by Hamlet. After all, while “this above all, To Thy Own Self Be True” maybe be natural for a sixteen year old seeking … Continue reading

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Back to Beauty’s Giver The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins read by Richard Austin

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Christ in the Church

A sermon by John Henry Newman, from volume 6 of Parochial and Plain sermons (on the topic of this sermon, see Douglas Farrow’s Ascension and Ecclesia): The Spiritual Presence of Christ in the Church “A little while, and ye … Continue reading

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The Unity of the Church

A sermon by John Henry Newman, from volume 7 of Parochial & Plain Sermons The Unity of the Church “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church; and the … Continue reading

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A Lenten Sermon

Lancelot Andrewes Works, Sermons, Volume Two pp. 61-77 SERMONS PREACHED IN LENT SERMON IV Preached before Queen Elizabeth, at Hampton Court, on Wednesday, being the Sixth of March, A. D. MDXCIV Transcribed by Dr. Marianne Dorman AD … Continue reading

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The Elizabeth Homilies

The Elizabeth Homilies “are authorized sermons issued in two books for use in the Church of England during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I. They were to provide for the Church a new model of simplified topical preaching … Continue reading

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The Fisherman

A sermon by Ronald Knox (source: https://www.ronaldknoxsociety.com ) THE FISHERMAN We have laboured all the night and have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net. – Luke 5:5 We heard these words read in the … Continue reading

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Awake, Thou That Sleepest

PREACHED ON SUNDAY APRIL 4, 1742, BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, BY THE REV. CHARLES WESLEY, M.A. STUDENT OF CHRIST-CHURCH “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Eph. 5:14. In discoursing on … Continue reading

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The Church Visible and Invisible

From Volume 3 of John Henry Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons The Church Visible and Invisible “In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to … Continue reading

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