Mar 29 2008
This morning someone in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia found my Quotes page by Googling the following: “protestant girl address that need mirage or love” Apparently this is the place for Eastern Africans to find desperate American brides for a green card.
Mar 23 2008
Happy Easter! To mark today I want to share another passage from Robert Webber’s Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church, one which I’ve been personally experiencing this Easter season: Lent begins a very intense period of personal spiritual examination, which leads toward renewal and deeper faith. Lent is [...]
Mar 22 2008
From The Economist, “Where angels no longer fear to tread”: Religion cries out for a biological explanation. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon—arguably one of the species markers of Homo sapiens—but a puzzling one. It has none of the obvious benefits of that other marker of humanity, language. Nevertheless, it consumes huge amounts of resources. Moreover, [...]
Mar 22 2008
I recently watched the movie Atonement, which I thought was beautiful. Now, over at First Things’ blog On the Square, there is a great piece on “Atheism and Atonement” which highlights the problematic of an atheistic attempt to atone for one’s wrongdoing. I thought this would be especially fitting to share during this Holy Triduum.
Mar 20 2008
Today is Maundy Thursday, the day in Holy Week that marks Christ’s Last Supper with the disciples, so I thought it would be an appropriate time my own change of thought on the matter. One of my sticking points with some denominations has long been their exclusive stance on communion, or the Eucharist. For example, [...]
Mar 16 2008
Burke’s Corner brought my attention to a terrible piece in National Review. It seems they are being co-opted by neo-cons, and not very smart ones at that, and are now showing it off in the wake of Buckley’s departure. There is no way he would have approved of such absurdities. Follow the link to Burke’s [...]
Mar 15 2008
I was stopped in my tracks by Rod Dreher’s recent post, Dreaming the trivial future. I emailed him to ask if he experience the same sort of thing I do: I, too, feel like I often experience déjà vu. However, I don’t remember having dreamt of the trivial moment until it occurs in real life. [...]
Mar 09 2008
HT to Conservative Heritage Times. For those who don’t know about history….Here is a condensed version… Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most [...]
Mar 02 2008
Since adding my Google Reader shared items widget, I’ve largely stopped posting links to interesting things I find on the web. This article, however, warrants an open recommendation: Click here to read Daniel McCarthy’s review of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk by Gerald Russello. One of my favorite passages: If Kirk had his differences [...]
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