" Learning the Lyrics of God " (Leland Ryken).

Herbert was a major Anglican poet and devotional writer. His work is edifying for contemporary Christians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

1. Milton's Paradise Lost is a flawed masterpiece. Now, when a great artist fails by overreaching, his work may still touch heights of...

Rebecca Stark : Last Sunday I posted a little bit of the story of William Cowper's conversion as background for his hymn There Is a F...

"Away in a Manger" is a favorite Christmas carol. (I prefer the Kirkpatrick tune.) The line "no crying he makes" is oft...

I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there...

First astronaut Yuri Gagarin: “The Earth is blue [...] How wonderful. It is amazing.” “Humans are meant for creation; creation is our ho...

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Why do the heathen rage-- With borrowed moral outrage Standing on the top rung of a ladder in the air The height of Babel's Tower, bu...

I I nursed it in my bosom while it lived, I hid it in my heart when it was dead; In joy I sat alone, even so I grieved Alone and nothing sa...

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my frien...

When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once a...

My 14-year-old daughter was moved strongly enough by a graphic of this little poem to post it on her Facebook status: WHEN I SAY, "I ...

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Christina Rossetti was one of the great Christian women in church history. Of course, church history is chock-full of great women, but most ...

Heaven overarches earth and sea, Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness; Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be (Please ...

New Atheists like to put on a front they pretend heroic, To pat one on the back, and call the other a stoic But in this world they built fro...

When I consider all your work, the trim Consumption fusion makes of hydrogen In constellations without number, then Reflect on orbits scatte...

From B.B. Warfield: Said Robert Leighton, holy man, Intent a flickering faith to fan Into a steady blaze -- "Behold yon floweret to the...