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A Christian’s Fight Song

Goodbye to condemnation;
Farewell to misery.
Adieu, accusation,
Begone, for now I’m free!

My old man has been crucified
With Christ at Calvary;
I’m risen to new life with Him,
I live His victory! …


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Listen to the Voices of Yale’s Past

President Theodore Dwight Woolsey’s wish for Yale on her 150th Birthday:

“Above and before all may God be present to give light and to leaven with his holy influence all study and discipline. But if,—which may he avert,—she should desert his ways, and give herself up to evil and to falsehood, I pray not for her prosperity:—I rather pray that she may fall.”


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Like David’s Sling

The earth goes arcing swift around,
Whirled like David’s sling,
That once swung ’round a few times,
Hurled a smooth stone, chosen stone.
Home to its mark, the giant’s head, the polished stone flew. …


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church-light

Light

Light
how oft forsaken!

Summer’s blazing heat
invigorates
but the frailty of my human condition,
the slightness of my covering,
leads me to crave shade,
a cool respite from the intense heat
of bright light


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