Forsaking lunacy, again and again
I have long thought that the best critique of Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option is that he’s just asking Christians to actually act like Christians, and asking the Church actually to do the work of the...
View ArticleInstrumentalizing God
For decades, I endured periodic sermons and political rants disguised as prayers. Because of who and where I was, and the few loose political affiliations I had, those sermons and rants almost all...
View ArticleTaking the easy way out
Sohrab Ahmari is an impetuous young man, new to his Christian faith, and ready to take the easy and sub-Christian route while pretending to be tough-minded and über-Christian. Continue reading →
View ArticleCultural Liturgies
We are bad at enough stuff and have a history sufficiently marked with sorrow to create fertile ground for repentance. We lack the humility to greet it. Continue reading →
View ArticleBack by Popular Demand
Notes I made while my really good computer was out of commission.
View ArticleSunday Potpourri
There's religion, in some form, in every item, including an implied reductio ad Hitlerum.
View ArticleMostly tales of decline
I'm not sure I achieved sublimity, but I'm pretty sure I nailed some ridiculous.
View ArticleSunday gleanings 1/9/2022
There is, if not a common theme, cognate bookends to today's blog post.
View ArticleProving the rule (and more)
My former religious tradition takes a surprising and costly stand. Plus, of course, other stuff.
View ArticleWednesday, 7/20/22
You didn’t miss anything. I didn’t publish yesterday because I just didn’t have enough material. That’s likely to recur, as I’m gradually correcting my incorrigible habit of poring over news that seems...
View ArticleFriday, 7/29/22
R.I.P. William Jon Gray William Jon Gray, undoubtedly the best Choral Conductor I ever sang under, has died at his home in New York state at age 66. I have the impression (from someone saying “You sung...
View ArticleSunday 9/18/22
Liturgies How Elizabeth experienced her coronation Over here, people did not get that fairy-tale feeling about the coronation. What impressed most who saw it was the fact that the Queen herself...
View ArticleAmerican Christianity Today
Three quotes on the present religious environment with a hearty book recommendation.
View ArticleOn proper love of country
“Are we not supposed to love our country?” As an abstraction, no. … more
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