Archive for May, 2006

Inappropriate moments 0

I enjoyed watching Calamity Jane a few nights ago. It’s a rip-roaring musical starring Doris Day and, in what seems like an inevitability in musicals of a certain age and type, Howard Keel. The story centres on the adventures of the title character who is rumbustious but charming at heart. Given her propensity for getting herself into mischief, her nickname is delightfully ambiguous.

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Christian unity 8

Brandon Withrow, writing at Resurgence about Edwards and the ‘millennium’ , points me to a comment that captures Jonathan Edwards’ desire for the church to be clearly and visibly one:

I hope the time is hastening, when God’s people… shall become more sensibly, as it were, one family, one holy and happy society, and all brethren, not only all united in one head, but in greater affection…

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