Names Writ in Water
The grave of John Keats in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome famously reads, “Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.” While doing some prep for a class this…
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
The grave of John Keats in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome famously reads, “Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.” While doing some prep for a class this…
Last time, we saw Edmund Burke’s claim that it was unjust to punish a man for a name to which he happens to be attached, or, rather, which happens to…
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is Edmund Burke on the injustice of punishing men for the crimes of their predecessors. Burke, as a Christian thinker, knew that to do so…
“Melanchthon Mondays” continues! I had a lot of fun reading and working on this one. This week’s poem is about Homer and poetic inspiration. Christians, I think it’s fair to…
I’ve written on the Decalogue, and specifically on the Decalogue in Melanchthon and Melanchthonianism at various times in the past. Below is a nice little epigram Melanchthon wrote on the…
First Things recently ran my metrical translation of Philip Melanchthon’s poem on the Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth. You can read an accompanying essay at Mere Orthodoxy. Here is another:…
I’ll have more to say about my intentions for this blog later on. But for my first post I want to direct your attention to an essay called “Ver Erat…
