Sep 05
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Beauty is truth | John Keats

Here’s a couple lines from John Keats that struck me as important, from my slim volume of 100 Best-Loved Poems: Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. from Ode on a Grecian Urn

Author: Stephen Barkley
Sep 03
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1 John 2:6 | Looking for the Snowshoes

In Another Land, the final album of Larry Norman’s famed trilogy, has a catchy little track on the CD reissue called Looking for the Footprints. The lyrics are simple: Looking for the footprints of the man who wears the sandals. If you’ve heard it, you’ll remember. If not, buy yourself a copy! That one-line song [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley
Sep 01
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The Harvard Classics Vol. 2 | Plato, Epictetus, Aurelius

The Harvard Classics, Vol. 2 Includes: The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito (Plato), The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation 345 pages This volume was interesting, enlightening, but profoundly frustrating. Let’s start with interesting. Most Christians have little or no idea how much of [...]

Author: Stephen Barkley