Ex Libris

“We have effectively pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him ‘meek and mild’ and recommended him as a household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.”
- Dorothy Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church 

Christ flew. People call it ascension, but He flew. He didn’t flap. He didn’t twist and spin. He didn’t expand with heat and reduce His density. He didn’t trick the air with the curved surface of a wing. The air lifted Him up because it wanted to. It doesn’t obey us the same […]

“Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.” - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is […]

I understand those who take no delight in fairy tales or fantasies. I pity you, but in truth, Harry Potter is not for you. Go back to reading stock reports or instruction manuals or whatever you do with your unfantastical mind.
- Orson Scott Card, renown science fiction writer.

Nothing is more fatal than the present fashion among intellectual leaders of extolling security at the expense of freedom. It is essential that we should re-learn frankly to face the fact that freedom can be had only at a price and that as individuals we must be prepared to make severe material sacrifice to preserve […]

God adopts the children together with the fathers; and so, consequently, the grace of salvation may be extended to those who are as yet unborn (Romans 9.7). I grant, indeed, that many who are the children of the faithful, according to the flesh, are counted bastards, and not legitimate, because they thrust themselves out […]

From the valid observation that there will always be enemies of the church, some find it easy to shift to the invalid assumption that if we cannot find those enemies, we must invent some.
- Andrew Sandlin, “John MacArthur is Certainly Wrong“

For it is a fact that the more unbelievers pour scorn on Him, so much the more does He make His Godhead evident. The things which they, as men, rule out as impossible, He plainly shows to be possible; that which they deride as unfitting, His goodness makes most fit; and things […]

To hear some talk about it, the doctrine of predestination is a doctrine of celestial tyranny, and those who believe in such ultimate tyranny should seek to imitate this tyranny themselves. No doubt, the argument goes, they should end their chain of reasoning by imitating their Despot in the Sky by practicing their own petty […]

By dispersing knowledge and control, a dynamic society takes advantage of the human quest to create and discover. Dynamism allows the world to be enriched through the decentralized, trial-and-error experiments in which we all engage when left free to do so. While reactionaries seek rules that would ban change and technocrats want rules that will […]