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May 2014

May 24, 2014

A Voyage to Mars, by Sea-Plane

In December of 2004, scientists from the Hawaii Underwater Research Lab discovered the sunken hulk...

May 23, 2014

The Power of Primary Sources

There's a neat guest post at Sarah Hoyt's blog about the importance to budding writers...

May 22, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Chess

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in...

May 22, 2014

Levon Helm and the Dixie Hummingbirds: When I Go Away

A few years before his death, Levon Helm of The Band recorded an album called...

May 21, 2014

Interview: Steven Pressfield

In conjunction with my review of Steven Pressfield's The Lion's Gate, I had the opportunity...

May 20, 2014

Review: The Lion’s Gate, by Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield's latest, The Lion's Gate, is something of a departure from his previous books....

May 19, 2014

CT 3.3: Bound in Causal Chains

In which we learn about chains of causes and when and why they cannot go...

May 18, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Is Truth Totalitarian?

In paragraph 34 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis writes, Truth nowadays is often reduced to...

May 17, 2014

Good Advice: Just Say Yes

The original of this post first appeared in February, 2005. As the title says, "Just...

May 16, 2014

Ringo meets Irving at High Noon

I discovered the Dr. Demento show when I was in Junior High School in the...

May 15, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Misery

Sergeant Colon was a picture of misery, drawn on a lumpy pavement in bad crayon...

May 14, 2014

Saints on Both Sides of the Stupid

Every so often I remind myself that in St. Catherine of Siena's day there were...

May 13, 2014

The Pope is a Tolkien Fan!

Now this is simply too cool for words: Pope Francis used Frodo and Sam as...

May 13, 2014

Review: Something Other Than God, by Jennifer Fulwiler

This review is for the handful of you out there who aren't already aware of...

May 12, 2014

CT 3.2, The Heavenly Bodies

Continuing my look at Chapter 3 of the Compendium Theologiae. The complete series is here....

May 11, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Hearing His Voice, Seeing His Face

In paragraph 28 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis points out that faith-knowledge is relational: God...

May 10, 2014

Stood Up For A Fish

This was first posted in November of 2004. I suppose I've been stood up a...

May 09, 2014

Anúna: Choral Music with an Edge

When I posted some songs in Gaelic a few weeks ago, Joseph Susanka pointed out...

May 08, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: Evening Dress

It was definitely evening dress. You couldn’t get away with it in daylight. — Terry...

May 07, 2014

Spiritual Engineering

People have the notion that Christians are control freaks. We want to tell you how...

May 06, 2014

CT 3.1, The Existence of God

Continuing my series on Aquinas; find the rest here. Now, preliminaries settled, we dive into...

May 05, 2014

Five Years of Patheos #Patheos5Yrs

Patheos is celebrating its fifth anniversary, which is more like its 35th anniversary in dog...

May 04, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Truth Requires Love-in-Action

In paragraph 27 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis looks at the relationship between truth and...

May 03, 2014

A Question of Values

This was first posted in October of 2004, about events that occurred around 1980. When...

May 02, 2014

A New Phone Scam?

We've been getting a new kind of phone call recently; we've gotten I've answered at...

May 02, 2014

The Mystery of Service

This month's post at CatholicMom concerns the Second Joyful Mystery of the Rosary: the Visitation,...

May 02, 2014

Still Alive! (Except the ones who are dead)

So Joseph Susanka listened to The Wishing Wife last week, and liked it; and then...

May 01, 2014

Support the Dominican Nuns!

Traditionally the priests and brothers in a religious order are termed the "first order", and...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

How I Write

So I was wondering what to say about writing today, beyond that it was a...

April 29, 2014

App o’ the Morning: Avernum, Escape from the Pit

Usually on Tuesdays I blog about a book I've read recently; but in the last...

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