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Continue reading →: The Sayings of the Cross. “A crown of thorns, really? Do they have any idea what they are doing? The sign of futility and the curse God placed on the ground because of sin? There, now, it fits perfectly, at least when the thorns have pierced Your skin so it sits better. The purple drops of…
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Continue reading → : OnSometimesThere is a terrible wearinessThat comes over my heart:To slow, to drop my sword, to know again the peace of the still placeBut He says: “Not here, not now. The battle rages on. Keep the faith” SometimesThere is a great sadnessThat sweeps over my soul:To crumple beneath it, to drink…
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Continue reading →: WinterGlimpsed sight of her in a white ermine coatSlashing through the forest, eyes glintingSavagely at me, as if caught in something.She shuddered and took flight, calling outWildly, ruthless, a primitive cry that echoed Among the silent pines. A chill like a bladeWent through me, to hear her: “Hear now,Ye bondsmen: My time has come. FrozenShall…
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Continue reading →: To Hate with the Proper VigorLove, Hatred, and the Christian Life I am very conservative, but have never entirely fit in with the conservative crowd. This is partly because I am a Vogan. We are lone wolves by nature, preferring to take our chances with Nature rather than go along with the pack. It is…
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Continue reading →: Sans LoyThe Rule of Law and the Christian Life “His looke was sterne, and seemed still to threatCruell revenge, which he in hart did hyde,And on his shield Sans Loy in bloudie lines was dyde.” Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Our nation has been reeling under an onslaught of violence and accusation. From…
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Continue reading →: So Divinely TallEnvy and the Christian Life There is a line in CS Lewis’s book That Hideous Strength where Jane is waiting for the Director and thumbing through a book that she feels slightly guilty about reading, when suddenly Camilla Denniston comes through the door. Jane turns crimson and becomes aware of…
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Continue reading →: Danger and JoyChoices and the Christian Life Have you ever found yourself at a crossroads, with only two options available to you? You can’t go back, and there is only a turn to the right, or a turn to the left. Nothing more. CS Lewis writes about this in one of his…
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Continue reading →: “So lyes it ever low”Why Suicide is a Mortal Sin (for Protestants, too) Tim Anderson, a dauntless attorney from Virginia Beach whom I follow, posted an update on his page the other day. It seems the Democrats, emboldened by their recent victories in the Governor’s mansion and in the House, are moving to propose…
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Continue reading →: “It is not Mine to give”A response to Aaron Renn’s “The Problem with the Evangelical Elite” The problem with wanting to be a Christian elite is that there is no such thing. Not, at least, in the sense Mr. Renn is pursuing the idea. It is not that his pursuit is not compelling. On the…
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Continue reading →: The ChildrenOut there, I was the sacred pedagogueListened to, read, respected, avoidedJust another intellectual with a beardSomeone whose name you could dropAs if you’d understood the long words,The emphatic development of thought,The useful clutter of a mind far away. In here, I am the one whose hand they holdWhen they’re afraid,…
Essays, poetry, meditations, and book reviews by Jeremy Vogan.
Jeremy Vogan
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