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Thursday, August 29, 2002 posted by Rick 9:51 AM link |
Breakfast. Very lightly attended this week: Rick, Jonathan, R.C. (finally!), Kevin. The biscuits and gravy took awhile to arrive, but did not need to be sent back. Hands-on activity of the morning was to take a set of mailing list labels and decide who not to send informational postcards to (announcement of fall Highlands Academy classes, reminder about the bonfire). Topics included: the Incarnation; how many generations before we control Virginia; Branson, Missouri; whose ears might be singed by R.C.'s current series on education; gnosticism and the internet. |
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posted by Rick 9:40 AM link |
Every Thought Captive. The September/October issue was delivered to the mailing house on Tuesday afternoon; chances are good you'll see it arriving in your mailboxes by early next week. The topic this time is "The Holy Catholic Church." |
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posted by Rick 9:38 AM link |
Keynote. R.C. is giving the opening keynote speech tonight at the Uniting Church and Home conference in St. Louis, sponsored by Vision Forum. We'll have an information and book table during the conference as well. Stop by and say hello. |
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Monday, August 26, 2002 posted by Rick 10:05 PM link |
Swamped. Weblog entries will be sporadic this week, due to preparations for the upcoming Uniting Church and Home conference in St. Louis, at which R.C. will be a keynote speaker and Draught Horse Press will be running a book table. |
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Thursday, August 22, 2002 posted by Rick 8:58 PM link |
Music. Two music CDs have been added to the Draught Horse Press catalog; check out the website to learn the reasons why. Other CDs will be added on occasion, but it's likely that the list will always be short; there just aren't that many CDs for us to enthusiastically endorse that you aren't likely to run across in other contexts. We do know of a few others, though, so watch for future additions. Also, please note that on the info page for Up18North there are links to music clips for each of the songs on the album. The record label, Double Time Records, has been very generous in providing high quality clips that contain the first 60 to 90 seconds of each song, allowing you to get a very good idea of how the album sounds. |
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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 posted by Rick 10:24 AM link |
Breakfast. Lightly attended this morning. In order of appearance: Laurence, Jonathan, Rick, Kevin. Again no R.C., again no biscuits and gravy. Topics included: the November/December issue of ETC; red hair, moving a household; shooting jaguars to protect the cattle; A Message to Garcia; em-dashes; the Kingsport Mets and the end of the minor-league season; R.L. Dabney's racism (so-called); the Puritan legacy of intellectualizing all discourse; earth-moving machinery; Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (great song); fighting for the land. |
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 posted by Rick 2:13 PM link |
Subscribe! Thanks to some very hard work on the part of senior editor R.C. Sproul Jr. and managing editor Jonathan Daugherty, the next issue of Every Thought Captive will be arriving in mailboxes in early September, just when we had hoped it would. But it will only arrive in your mailbox if you are on the list, or have your name and mailing address added to the list by early next week. How is that done? Simply send an email to etc@draughthorsepress.com with the relevant information and we'll do the rest. |
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Monday, August 19, 2002 posted by Rick 8:29 PM link |
Books. Three of our favorite books on Christianity and culture have been added to the online store catalog. One is that well-known favorite of R.C.'s, All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes by Ken Myers. The other two are very good books by Gene Veith, one on postmodernism and the other on Christianity and the fine arts. |
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Friday, August 16, 2002 posted by Rick 8:32 PM link |
St. Louis In less than two weeks, R.C. will be delivering a keynote address at the Uniting Church and Home conference in St. Louis. Your webmaster will be there as well, manning the information table and selling books and tapes and wishing he could be listening to the talks. But he probably won't dwell on that quite so much if those of you who make it to the conference make a point of stopping by the HSC table and introducing yourselves. (Incidentally, the explanatory text on the Uniting Church and Home conference is well worth the time it takes to read it.) |
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 posted by Rick 7:05 PM link |
Video. Next week R.C. will be taping his second video series, this one based on his book Tearing Down Strongholds. If past history is any indication, it should be available for purchase in late Fall. And in case you aren't aware of it, his first video series was on the covenant family; it is called Bound for Glory, and you can purchase a copy from the online store. |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 posted by Rick 6:44 PM link |
Breakfast. No visitors today. In order of appearance: Laurence, Michael, Jonathan, Rick, Kevin, Ken. No R.C. (he was wrapping up a teaching gig in southern New York) and consequently no biscuits and gravy report. The grits were steaming hot, though. Topics included: whether ugliness is permissible when discussing beauty; my girl Bill; T-Bone Burnett; bottled water, and whether bottled air and bottled dirt were soon to follow (Dave Barry's joke, not ours); driveways; whether to go with a chi-rho or a cross on the next ETC cover; how much courage it takes to make the same movie twice; the art (and expense) of fly fishing; the Free State Project; whether it is possible to be a politician in modern America without also being a criminal. |
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002 posted by Rick 10:14 AM link |
Notices. Some updates:
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Friday, August 09, 2002 posted by Rick 9:51 PM link |
Cartoon physics. Just to finish out the week ... for those of you who have attended a couples' camp, and anyone else who has heard R.C. talk on God's sovereignty over the physical world, you may appreciate this summary statement of the laws of cartoon physics. |
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Thursday, August 08, 2002 posted by Rick 1:08 PM link |
Recording. How important is worship to St. Peter Presbyterian Church? So important that we couldn't cover everything we wanted to cover even with two Basement Tapes. The plan last night was to talk about our approach to worship in general, then to examine the specifics of the St. Peter worship service, and finally to wrap up by covering some related issues (e.g. regulative principle, exclusive psalmody). But we had only made it to the offering and doxology before we ran out of tape. So there will be a third conversation on worship recorded in the very near future, along with a separate conversation somewhere down the road which will focus exclusively on the Lord's Supper. But we still plan to make the first two conversations on worship available early next week. |
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Wednesday, August 07, 2002 posted by Rick 5:04 PM link |
Recording tonight. This time it'll be the second installment of the conversation on worship. The producer didn't meet his goal of having #9 completely edited before #10 was recorded, but the new and improved goal is to have both #9 and #10 available by next Monday. (Online excerpts as well.) |
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posted by Rick 12:17 PM link |
Breakfast. Very well attended this morning. In order of appearance: Rick, Kevin, Jonathan, Derek Monjure (up from Atlanta with his wife and two children for a visit), Michael, a surprise appearance by Joshua, and finally a rested but tardy R.C. Yes, no Laurence. Yes, the biscuits and gravy were cold again; R.C. personally walked them back to the kitchen, then personally walked them back out to the table again. Topics included: the old time fiddlers' convention in Galax; the Pledge of Allegiance; a particularly bad Super 8 motel in Abingdon; a welcome cold front, with temperatures down about ten degrees; the gorgeous drive to Asheville; the Uniting Church and Home conference in St. Louis at the end of the month; how not to run a restaurant kitchen; liberal Methodist women pastors; Blade Runner; when does an investment edge over into being speculation; prednisone; why theonomists get so grumpy with one another; Basement Tapes sales figures; flat tires. |
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Tuesday, August 06, 2002 posted by Rick 2:33 PM link |
Argumentation. John Dunlap teaches a university summer course on argumentation. You might be interested in learning exactly how diverse the thinking is among his small sample of upper classmen, read his article here. Not news, but still disheartening. The article moves on to review two books that address the sad state of thinking in modern America. |
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Monday, August 05, 2002 posted by Rick 4:27 PM link |
Articles. Most of the articles you'll find on this website were first published in Every Thought Captive, and so you'll find them listed permanently in the newletter archives. But we're starting to publish articles on the website that don't fit that category—some from other venues where R.C. has published, some he has written specifically for the site, even some from other authors—and so we've also added a Website Articles index page to help keep track of them all. |
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Friday, August 02, 2002 posted by Rick 3:13 PM link |
Basement Tapes. We're having one difficult time conveying to people what exactly the Basement Tapes are. Calling them 75-minute conversations on the good life doesn't seem to do the job. Frankly, we think that they rank right up there with sliced bread. That may be a bit overblown, but we've had many people tell us after hearing some of them that not only did they throroughly enjoy them, they have never heard anything else like them. Draught Horse Press has finally done what it promised to do much earlier in the year, namely add audio excerpts to the DHP website for each of the Basement Tapes. You can go to the appropriate catalog entry and for any of the Tapes you'll find the pull quote/theme, generally running about two minutes, plus two excerpts that tend to run four or five minutes each. Enjoy, and let us know if they manage to convey some idea of what you'll find when you listen to the full recording. |
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Thursday, August 01, 2002 posted by Rick 8:31 AM link |
Weblogs. The latest addition to the study center's collection of weblogs is The Walker Mountain Sessions, a repository of notes from Jonathan Daugherty to his children. |