http://Bosphorus.today.com Christianity is not a system of logic, nor a vain deceit, but a naked truth, to be guarded by faith and good works. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:40:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've moved to Wordpress. www.bosphorus.wordpress.com Look for me there! http://Bosphorus.today.com/2008/04/22/moving/ "July 21. Wednesday. Kept school. I am now entering on another year, and I am resolved not to neglect my time as I did last year. I am resolved to rise with the sun, and to study the Scriptures on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings, ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2008/04/15/john-adams-diary/ "There could be a relation to familiar things that was astounding in its revelation...It struck [Carley] suddenly and strangely that to know the real truth about anything in life might require infinite experience and understanding. How could one feel immense gratitude and relief, or the delight of satisfying acute ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2008/04/01/a-lenten-passage-from-zane-grey/ Bosphorus has been quiet for a long time, long enough for me to be Chrismated and to become Orthodox. I stopped posting for a couple of reasons. I had greater need to read and to listen than to talk or write. And I began to worry about ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2008/04/01/resuming/ An old green copy of Emerson's Parnassus leans against Meditations from Kierkegaard. Both volumes loll in a cheap wine rack put on my desk to keep the towers of books below Babble. I brace for a new term, new classes, new students. Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Kierkegaard, Rousseau: ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/08/14/a-new-term/ And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. ---When I think about transfiguration, I often think about this line from the Authorized Version. The word 'white' is transfigured in it, taken from its familiar adjectival use to a ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/08/06/figuring-transfiguring/ "Medicine is the fashion among us. It ought to be. It is the entertainment of idle people without occupation who, not knowing what to do with their time, pass it in preserving themselves. If they had had the bad luck to be born immortal, they would be ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/08/06/from-rousseaus-emile/ "...[T]here are some who investigate spiritual precepts with shrewd diligence, but in the life they live trample on what they have penetrated by their understanding. They hasten to teach what they have learned, not by practice, but by study, and belie in their conduct what they teach by words. ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/08/06/memo-to-myself/ I've been caught up in Unseen Warfare. It is a remarkable book. I find most useful its wise, resolute refusal to treat spirituality as a psychological phenomenon, as an event or a series of events in the "inner realm" (a realm either of grey matter or of ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/08/01/depsychologizing-christian-spirituality/ I mentioned Stephen MacKenna in my last entry. I now provide the final entry from his journal, dated June 15, 1909: It is strange and saddening to find, when one sits with leisure and entire freedom of choice, that one has nothing whatever to put down, or nothing but the ... http://Bosphorus.today.com/2007/07/18/death-in-days-here-below/