... , in the hope of recruiting his wife's drooping health. On that occasion he met a well-known Roman Catholic Archbishop, the late Dr. Everard, titular of Cashel. He was one of the old school of Irish priests, before the well-educated and well-mannered race, trained in France, had been exchanged for the coarser and more turbulent pupils of the College of Maynooth. Dr. Everard was a man of very ...

... Gateway Pundit: ABC News: Nidal Hasan & Followers of Islam Are the Real Victims Evangel: What the Church Can Learn from Sesame Street by Russell Moore Irish Calvinist: Pollyanna Osteen and his New Handbook for Hope without Jesus Mere Orthodoxy: The Enlightenment and Evangelicals by Matthew Lee Anderson Consider this an open thread.

JP: Interesting read by “The Irish Calvinist”. Comment: This is not about whether President Obama should or should not have bowed before the Japanese Emperor Akihito and his wife! My King Won’t Bow Excerpt: This is a news story that causes me to be reminded and refreshed by my King. Indeed he is all powerful. He has no rivals. He cannot ...

Spurred by this post at Irish Calvinist. Gratitude is not "good manners." Teaching kids their "pleaseandthankyou" is worthwhile depravity suppression, and makes for more pleasant conversation, but it is not the same as giving them grateful hearts. We are selfish, greedy sinners, all of us. Gratitude is an affection of a man who knows he is ...

Here is an absolutely beautiful list of thankfulness from Erik, the Irish Calvinist. To all I say a hearty "AMEN!" Realizing that thankfulness is not merely manners but a spiritual apprehension graced by God (Rom. 1.21; Col. 3.17), I have a short list of things I am thankful for this am… -I am thankful that God ...

... assumption of the title of King had less to do with dispossessing the native Irish kings than with confronting the Pope. Although he accepted the Royal ... adopted them in addition to, not instead of, the Irish Articles. Ussher’s Church of Ireland, with its stringently Calvinist theology ... counterparts. On James’ defeat in 1691, all of the Irish bishops swore the oaths to William of Orange ...

... to boycott Egyptian academics, only Israeli academics. The world in general and the UN and the Norwegians and Irish in particular are outraged by the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Not a word from anyone about the Egyptian blockade ... like Osama bin Laden are so devoted to destroying the Saudi kingdom. Imagine the most Calvinist anti-Catholic time and place possible, say Scotland in the time of John ...