The difference between Homer and Vergil, in one line.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
“Those Words Are Pure Heavenly Thunder”: Luther on Attending to Every Word
Martin Luther, Galatians 1:4, and the importance of reading slowly.
An Introduction to St. Augustine’s Confessions
Take–and, like, read.
“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4
Augustine on going home by finding our selves outside our selves in God inside ourselves.
One Note on Confessions 4.8.13
Augustine and Epictetus on death.
A Note on Confessions 4.5.10
In Confessions 4.5.10, Augustine takes up the difficult question of why we often find grief and sadness to be, in a sense, pleasurable, without coming to a definite conclusion. The question is closely related to the theory of tragedy as a literary and dramatic genre...
St. Augustine on the Death of His Friend
Some notes on Confessions 4.4.8-9.
“Deep Reliance,” or: What’s in an Adjective?
On David French’s adjectival style.
“Uncanny King, Perplexing Priest”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poetic paraphrase of Greek Anthology 1.66, on Melchizedek and Jesus.
Mike + the Mechanics and Genesis: Sons and Fathers
On the anniversary of two Genesis-related albums.