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HSC News 200412/18 | STOP THE PRESSES! Actually, it’s too late. But we must change the date of our conference. It will be April 15, 16. [more] 12/18 | The 2005 Camp for Pastors is now full. 12/17 | Pastors? Camp? Free? [more] 11/23 | Reminder 11/17 | Summer Camp 11/15 | Tuesday Nights 10/20 | Reformation Day Celebration 10/14 | Two new Tuesday Night Studies, one on worship (“Lift Up Your Hearts”) and one on Narnia (“Further Up and Further In”) are available at the online store. [more] 10/9 | Third Sunday 9/14 | There will be neither the monthly post-morning-worship third Sunday picnic nor the usual Sunday evening gathering at Cornerstone this coming Sunday, the 19th. Instead, one of our families will be hosting a worship service including a baptism with a meal to follow. Call the office if you need details. 9/11 | The Speaking Schedule is up to date. Take a look to see if R.C. will be in your area. [more] 9/4 | Four new Basement Tapes are available at the online store. [more] 8/23 | R.C.’s new book, When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling, is now available from Draught Horse. [more] 8/21 | More details as promised on our 2005 Conference, Your Gold to Refine. [more] 8/18 | Sept. 7 a new Tuesday night series, 12 Things the Bible Teaches, That Christians Don’t Believe, will commence. [more] 8/14 | Mark your calendars and plan to join us for our second annual conference, Your Gold to Refine. The dates are April 1 and 2, 2005; the location is historic Abingdon, Virginia. More details will be available soon. 8/12 | R.C. will be hosting a Q&A this coming Tuesday, August 17, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Call the office if you need directions. 8/11 | It’s time again for our for monthly 3rd Sunday covered dish picnic. This Sunday following worship, St. Peter Presbyterian Church congregants will descend upon the Mendota (Virginia) Community Center for food and fellowship. Visitors are most welcome. 8/5 | Highlands Academy Reopens Its Doors 7/29 | Check out the new look and features of the online store at Draught Horse Press 7/20 | News on Every Thought Captive... 7/15 | This Sunday (July 18) the St. Peter community will gather at the Lion’s Club pavilion at Sugar Hollow Park, Bristol, Va., for monthly 3rd Sunday covered dish picnic following worship. Bring a federal reserve note to get in the gate. 7/8 | Ice Cream, Good News and Bad News... 5/26 | Draught Horse Press has added a new music CD to their catalog. Visit the online store 5/17 | New Basement Tapes available. Visit the online store.
5/11 | New Draught Horse Press catalog for 2004 finally available. Visit the online store. 5/5 | Tapes of the HSC Spring 2004 Conference are now available at the online store. 5/5 | We are now taking registrations for the 2004 Summer Camp for Couples. 5/3 | We’re back... 4/23 | The webmaster is going on hiatus; updates will resume on May 3. 4/19 | New Krüger Brothers CD on its way! Visit the online store. 4/9 | All hands on deck! Important news about the cruise here. 3/29 | Two new six-part Bible studies by R.C. Sproul Jr. can be found at the online store. 3/19 | Oops. Some more new (well, sort of new) books at the online store. 3/18 | You’ll find a new book on worship and two new music CDs at the online store. 3/1 | R.C. will be the guest on Issues in Education, a radio program heard on over 300 stations, during the week of March 13. Check here for a station local to you. 2/27 | The 2003 issues of Every Thought Captive are now part of the online archives. 2/10 | The brochure for our spring conference is on its way. Or you can download it as a PDF. 1/20 | We apologize for the recent dearth of updates; lately our webmaster has been otherwise occupied. Things will return to normal very soon .... 1/3 | The final four Basement Tapes for 2003 are now available at the online store.
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Worth ReadingLarry Boy, He’s Our Man... [more] On a cold winter’s night, R.C.’s doubts having crept in, a link creeps in as well... [more] On a cold winter’s night, R.C.’s doubts begin to creep in... [more] R.C.’s own personal Waterloo... [more] The Lord works in mysterious ways... [more] You’ve got friends in Pennsylvania... [more] In praise of yet another Doug... [more] R.C. gets hauntingly familiar... [more] R.C. has a bone to pick with you... [more] Death pays a call, and honor returns the favor... [more] There’s a signpost up ahead... [more] The good and wise Lee Shelton has written an e-book on voting for the lesser of two evils. Take a look here... [more] High on the hog, in Ligonier... [more] More clarity on ectopic pregnancies... [more] R.C. on hardening concrete... [more] Back to the muddy waters of Ligonier... [more] R.C. tries bringing Calvinism down to earth... [more] The Sovereignty of God, and Elections... [more] R.C. claims to be both catholic, and dumb... [more] Same great squib, but with fewer carbs, I mean, mistakes... [more] R.C. kowtows to a socialist feminist ex-nun and other strange revelations in Chapter 4 of Ligonier Tales... [more] The prayers of a righteous boy availeth much... [more] Looking at Loyal Lyrical Lliances... [more] Lone Rangers Unmasked... [more] R.C. considers his head and shoulders, knees and toes... [more] It appears there are some out there—lawyers surprisingly enough—who view space not simply as the “final frontier” but as a future Socialist utopia. (If their goals sound just fine and dandy to you, might we suggest you pick up a copy of Biblical Economics?) [more] Once again R.C. looks out in his garden... [more] In the context of war, what differentiates heroism and tragedy? [more] Some outfits will pay you a federal reserve note to take their survey. Not so with the government. Rep. Ron Paul’s response? “None of Your Business!” [more] Ligonier’s own version of The Anti-Capitalist Mentality... [more] R.C. on Keeping It Surreal [more] Oh Lordy, what is R.C. Jr. talking about now? [more] Must we really call him Brother? [more] Those pesky third parties... [more] RC Jr. looks out at his farm and finds not chickens, but sheep... [more] A couple of little girls step on the Ligonier Tales... [more] A solution isn’t a solution if it doesn’t solve the problem... [more] Another milestone, of sorts... [more] Once upon a time, our Baptist betters thought about pulling their children out of government schools... [more] “She was much more comfortable with it than I was,” says her doctor, “but she’s not doing anything illegal, and it’s not for me to decide.” So he performed an abortion for a woman who had three girls and wanted a boy... [more] Louis Menand asks, “Why would a person who is not just vague about the rules but disinclined to follow them bother to produce a guide to punctuation?” [more] One town, three cultures, one young boy threading his way among them—another installment of Ligonier Tales... [more] If we aren’t ready yet to debate the various Christian options for teaching your children, writes Doug Wilson, then what should we be doing to prepare for the debate? [more] Saint Peter Presbyterian Church celebrates an important and happy milestone... [more] Many of you have asked for news about Denise Sproul... [more] A Peach or Beef by any other name? Inconceivable... [more] Yearning for the good old days of...the Clinton administration? [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. continues the story of his days in Ligonier, Pennsylvania... [more] Another comment on R.C.’s latest squib (scroll to the bottom)... [more] Doug Phillips writes, “I would rather honor the Lord than win an election.” [more] A comment on R.C.’s latest squib... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. asks: “Can you hear me now?” [more] Doug Wilson observes, “The Christian church wants the fruit of believing in Jesus Christ without actually having to believe in Jesus Christ.” [more] A journey of many chapters always begins with an introductory paragraph... [more] Always check the end of a squib for comments... [more] Sometimes the restraints are loosed, and darkened hearts give us a glimpse into the heart of darkness... [more] Looking for wisdom in all the wrong places... [more] Russell Kirk: "The individual is foolish, but the species is wise. We have inherited from the past the instruments which the wisdom of the species employs to safeguard man against his own passions and appetites." ... [more] Nothing like a trip back to the old home place to get you thinking about sanctification ... [more] Beauty, rabbit trails, yutzes, postmodernism, onion heads, meddling kids, and the Trinity—it's another squib from R.C. Sproul Jr. ... [more] “The Bible,” Randall Terry notes, “doesn't condemn divorce, but it does condemn homosexuality.” ... [more] What's so great about Shakespeare? His writing is one cliche after another ... [more] Too often seeking after wisdom is reduced to a playground taunt: “I know something you don't know!” ... [more] “Christian day care is a five-day-a-week young child evangelism ministry ... and their parents pay for the privilege!” ... [more] Saddle up, boys—there's folks that need fussin' at! ... [more] Good news for firm believers in central Florida ... [more] Gerry Wisz reminds us that the role of the church is not to satisfy felt needs, but to provide the one thing needful ... [more] Three wise men gather in Abingdon, Virginia. One stays behind and reflects ... [more] Technological progress is not a given. For a long while there wasn't much of it, and then suddenly there was a lot of it. Why? ... [more] “The world Watters describes is inward-looking, self-sufficient, cut off from the rest of society. 'In certain hipster areas,' he writes, 'you could literally go days without seeing a child.'” ... [more] From timeless to fashion fad and back again and back again? ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. takes a few moments to contemplate his navel—and yours, too ... [more] “Forced labor has become both a form a torture and a source of great profit for China.” ... [more] A good friend and most excellent prairie muffin, Carmon Friedrich, is conducting a blogathon on Friday, March 25, that will benefit the Highlands Study Center ... [more] “Authorities in Helsinki, Finland, recently slammed a speeder with a $216,900 fine—an amount arrived at after authorities reviewed the offender's tax records and income.” ... [more] You can't always get what you want—and it's a good thing ... [more] A new six-CD set Goodbye Babylon: “What these salvagers have preserved is a gospel hodgepodge, everything from Sacred Harp singing to hillbilly romps to field-holler prison chants to front-porch blues to jubilee quartets to old-timey country to Sanctified-congregational singing to Pentecostal rave-ups.” ... [more] “Rev. Preston Wood said many young pastors consider Willow Creek 'old school' and are looking for something more cutting edge and updated.” ... [more] “It is a disorienting thing to be appreciated for what you are not doing. Once you get your bearings straight you realize not only that you aren't being appreciated, but that you probably never were.” ... [more] “Thanks to a few brave, fed-up Texans, the national pro-life movement has a few reasons to smile. Recent successes show us the ability of one person to set in motion serious change.” ... [more] When R.C. Sproul Jr. disagrees with his friend Doug Jones, you have to wonder if there might be powerful and mysterious forces at work behind the scenes ... [more] Our friends the Reeltime Travelers will be part of the “Great High Mountain” tour in early May, along with Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, and many others. Whet your appetite with some free songs ... [list of MP3 files] These days, it's definitely not who you are, but who you know (and who they know) ... [more] “My motivation for questioning mercy ministry, as it is now commonly understood and practiced, is that I find it rests on a flimsy biblical foundation.” ... [more] Let us prepare for spring—and for the HSC Spring Conference—by revisiting a meditation on baseball from conference speaker Doug Jones ... [more] You'll Laugh; You'll Cry; You'll Never Be the Same ... [more] “As I write I am on my way home from a funeral, the funeral of a giant of a man few have ever heard of.” ... [more] “Gibson's Jesus is presented not as godhead but as victimhood incarnate. Nobody not Marlon Brando in The Chase, not Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, not Denzel Washington in Glory, not even Mel himself in Braveheart is going to take a more impressive beating.” ... [more] Not only is Vulgaria a child-free zone, writes Doug Phillips, but the Vulgarians like it that way ... [more] [related article] “God's grace flows in the strangest places. We work, and we negotiate to build assorted grand canals and viaducts, when the truth is, it descends on us like mist.” ... [more] Gerry Wisz finally persuaded his wife to go with him to see Cold Mountain. Oops ... [more] “Sigmund Freud is truly in a class of his own. Arguably no other notable figure in history was so fantastically wrong about nearly every important thing he had to say.” ... [more] The Weekly Standard finds an acorn ... [more] Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ... [more] The future ain't what it used to be, writes George Grant ... [more] Some news about Every Thought Captive's star columnist, Denise Sproul ... [more] Thoughts on music and savage breasts ... [more] Speaking of piggy paganism ... [more] Peggy Noonan asks, “Why was the piggy paganism of the Super Bowl so obnoxious? Our culture has been sick for a while. Our media have for decades been robbing our children of the not-knowingness that is the hallmark of childhood.” ... [more] “Why are we living as if there is no tomorrow, not in the sense that tomorrow won't come, but in the sense that time has become elastic, and all the days bleed into one?” ... [more] “And that's when it hit me: if Calvinists are pounding congas like this in the middle of a reading, worship has come a long way in this place and this faith tradition.” ... [more] And the taunts of a little child shall lead us ... [more] Our good friends at Christ Church in Searcy, Arkansas now have a website ... [more] Benjamin Friedrich reports on the work of the Genocide Awareness Project and its importance to one young woman ... [more] Some folks in Moscow, Idaho are not happy with Christ Church, particularly Doug Wilson. Listen to a radio program featuring Wilson and one of his accusers ... [more] Many folks have weird and secret habits. Which one would you suspect to plague R.C. Sproul Jr.? ... [more] David Bahnsen reacts to R.C.'s squib about President Bush's support for abortion in cases of rape and incest ... [more] Conservatism is only worthwhile when there is something worth conserving, writes John Hartung ... [more] “'We believe in this country,' said Trudy Sherburne. 'We just feel the authorities need to abide by the same laws that the citizens must abide by'” ... [more] “You need to get past the folly that says 'One dead baby is a tragedy. 15,000 dead babies is a statistic.' ... [more] Some gifts are better returned unopened ... [more] R.C. Sproul Jr. asks, “Why is it that when we come to the mistakes made by the good folks in the Bible, our assumption is that we have their problem whipped, rather than assuming that we might be making the same mistake?” ... [more] |
