The Mayor’s Amicus Brief
The Mayor across the river has signed onto a brief supporting same-sex marriage. Mayor Beyond River (R, not D) says: It’s not only how my community feels, but it’s also how I feel personally … A lot of...
View ArticleFriday, 3/13/15
A little fixated on Natural Law. Well, maybe a lot fixated on it. But wait! There's more! Including some self-referential "bringing it full circle"!
View ArticleHagia Podrig’s Day, 3/17/15
Quite a potpourri: Gnosticism, Daylight Savings Time, President Obama's deocracy, our self-ghettoizing, GOP returns to its vomit, pride according to Sigrid Undset, Justice Kennedy's "Mystery Passage"...
View ArticleThursday, 3/19/15
Opening with "an eerie phase of history" and in a sense never changing that subject.
View ArticleTipping Point
Does the continuation of civility and moral community require that we maintain the American imperium? Via Rod Dreher: Father Patrick Reardon, pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago,...
View ArticleCulture warriors and traditores
Last time we danced this dance, the Donatists were mostly from the poorer classes, the traditores from higher classes.
View ArticleFriday, 5/15/15
Martyrdom, persecution, complicity, the non-observance of Christ's Ascension, a high-level Indiana RFRA post-mortem and, finally, beautiful music.
View ArticleSunday, 5/17/15
A great bookstore, varieties of revenge porn, news flash to orthodox Christian America, and a myth that's hard as cockroaches to kill.
View ArticleWednesday, 6/3/15
Nothing to see here. Move along now. Seriously, this is nothing very fabulous, but it's some stuff I've been thinking about, and one's current.
View ArticleFriday, 6/26/15
Mostly sharing the bon mots of others - Chesteron, Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy -- even Rod Dreher
View ArticleTuesday, 8/4/15
ART that only a libertarian could love The prophetic vocation What’s wrong with the sting videos? Audacious lying and posturing Giving The Donald his due
View ArticleSaturday, 8/15/15
An original thought! Maybe two! Some other stuff, too, including an atheist convert's take on Christian doctrine.
View ArticleSaturday, 8/29/15
Heavy on politics (especially the weasel-haired 20 car pile-up you just can't ignore) with some religion and a defense of religion in politics.
View ArticleOn arguing with integrity
Seth Godin’s Saturday blog was evocative for me: Each of us understands that different people are swayed by different sorts of arguments, based on different ways of viewing the world. That seems sort...
View ArticleMonday, 11/23/15
So, an Islamist, a feminist, and an oligarch hijack this train and .... Evangelicals dithering for a refugee proof-text. More.
View ArticleTuesday, 12/15/15
Untethered Andrew Sullivan: from hero to heretic Lebensunwertes leben update Stewardship Hugh Hewitt: Great Idea! MacKeeper 1 Paul Wolscht is a 50-something year-old Canadian father of seven children...
View ArticleTuesday, 1/19/16
Unholy marriage; Worth dying for; Spiritual and Metaphysical; Correcting "civil rights" blather; Universal pornification; Standing advice update
View ArticleSaturday, 3/5/16
A potpourri, including some out-of-the-ordinary political (sigh!) and economic comments.
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