In Search of a Better Country

Author: Burrows

  • Annotations — June 18, 2021

    Annotations — June 18, 2021

    featured image source Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth and the Great Commission A well researched, celebratory, and globally-focused essay from Christianity Today. When God ends a season of drought, he begins a season of harvest. Parenting in the Digital Age A great little article containing simple steps for managing your digital devices. Helpful whether you’ve got kids…

  • A Sentence That Stretches Into Eternity

    The tension (a weak word) between the temporality of sentences and the eternity that would render them and the strivings they portray superfluous is powerfully captured in my final example, a sentence from Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678). Although I have read and taught this sentence hundreds of times, it never fails to knock my…

  • The Urgent Need of Preaching

    The Urgent Need of Preaching

    I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people…

  • Learning to See Through the Eyes of our Forebears

    Christian classics—such as Athanasius’ treatise On the Incarnation or Augustine’s Confessions—possess the ability to tether us to our collective past, offering us resources that not only inform us about our faith but also reveal the blind spots of our own chronological parochialism. They anchor us to a continuous tradition of reflection, allowing us to see…

  • The Wonders of the World

    The Wonders of the World

  • Annotations — June 11, 2021

    Annotations — June 11, 2021

    One of the Earliest (and Clearest) Summaries of Early Christian Beliefs I have consistently discovered that, despite the tantalizing conspiracies offered up in forms like the Da Vinci Code, the history of the Christian faith provides a more boring (and consequently a more reliable) grounding for belief in Christ as Lord. ‘The Weight of Glory’…