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December 2015

December 15, 2015

Straw vs. the Symphony of God

One of the things we know about St. Thomas Aquinas is that late in his...

October 2015

October 06, 2015

You Can’t Change Him…But He Can Grow

And for once, surprisingly, conventional wisdom has the right end of the stick. We are...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Infrastructure: Pictures All Over The Ground

The above is the sort of picture that makes my wife sigh and say, "Yeah,...

August 16, 2015

Free Will, and the Struggle for Excellence

My posts about suffering have revolved around the notion of “free will”, and that has...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

How Can There Be No Suffering in Heaven?

In a previous post I argued that free will allows the making of poor choices,...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

I Guess That’s How The Future’s Done: Mushaboom, by Feist

From Feist, here's a lovely little song about dreaming for the future and building a...

June 12, 2015

Topics of Interest

I've been in comment conversations with so many different people over the last few weeks...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

The Dogmat is Watching You

And O! the things the Dogmat has seen in the last week! 7 Hand Gestures...

May 01, 2015

Ray Manzarek: Carmina Burana

Last week I posted that video of misheard lyrics to "O Fortuna", from Carl Orff's...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

The Wonder of Reading Terry Pratchett Aloud

As I'm sure everyone who reads this blog already knows, Sir Terry Pratchett, author of...

March 12, 2015

Leslie Charteris on Getting Your Goat

A tinge of old beetroot suffused Mr Teal’s rubicund complexion. To say that his goat...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Review: Outwitting History

The delightful Outwitting History is the story of Aaron Lansky's seemingly quixotic but ultimately successful...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

CT 14: God Not A Species Predicated Of Individuals

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

May 2014

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....

April 2014

April 30, 2014

How I Write

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

March 2014

March 30, 2014

Lumen Fidei: God is Here, Now

In paragraphs 15, 16, and 17 of Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis explains how faith is...

March 17, 2014

Smiling Rhinoceros

Apropos of nothing, here's a picture of a rhinoceros I found while looking for something...

March 14, 2014

Pi Day? Big Deal!

Yeah, I was a math major, I suppose I should get excited by Pi Day....

March 02, 2014

On Wuthering Heights

Over the years I’ve had friends who believed in the healing power of crystals, a...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

Sea Chanties

So yesterday I posted Ewan MacColl singing about Nancy Whiskey; which led a Facebook friend...