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Contemplating Life in the Face of Death

S. M. Hutchins has an insightful post at Mere Comments, the blog of Touchstone Magazine on contemplating true life in the face of death. He ponders whether passing from life in the womb to life in the world is not unlike our passing from life in the world to life in heaven. He wonders whether [...]

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Music and the Church’s Culture

Anthony Esolen has done it again. His latest blog post is on how the world has lost its soul, its culture, because it has lost in its music any resemblance or building up on the music of the past. Esolen defines culture as that which you have when “you cultivate those beliefs, customs, celebrations, and [...]

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Pastors as Fathers?

James Kushiner has posted on Touchstone’s Mere Comments about the anniversary of his brother’s pastorate at the same church for many years. What I found particularly interesting in his post are his comments on pastors in mainline Protestant churches that are reclaiming the title of Father.
I have often wondered why more Lutherans do not [...]

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Masculinity and Femininity: What does this mean?

Here is another insightful post from Anthony Esolen over at Touchstone’s blog Mere Comments. Esolen is one of the great defenders and saviors of masculinity in our culture. He constantly maintains the premise that men and women are different and this is good, as our God has told us in [...]

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