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November 2014

November 07, 2014

The Convert’s Ignorance

Or, as the article is actually titled, The Convert's Unnecessary Worries. Writing on the Catholic...

November 07, 2014

Mark Shea & the Republicans

My Patheos colleague Mark Shea, quoting a piece by Mark Steyn on New Hampshire Republican...

November 07, 2014

The Communist Among the Angels

A few days ago I offered a useful analogy for abortion from Israel Hernandez, the...

November 07, 2014

Book Title Games

Last year's fad but I missed it then, playing on The Add a word, ruin...

November 06, 2014

Friendship, Modernity, and Encounter

Friends' books available for pre-ordering, both of which I'd commend. To be exact, the translator...

November 06, 2014

Why Writers Writing on Writing Are Paranoid

At the end of a very critical review in The Spectator of John Cleese's autobiography:...

November 06, 2014

American Converts, In Their Own Words

A very interesting and useful site, at least for those interested in converts, with the...

November 05, 2014

On November 5th, a Summary of Christian Politics, in Music

G. K. Chesterton's great hymn, a sharp (and singable) summary of the Christian hope for political...

November 05, 2014

Out of the Boat!

From Israel Hernandez of the Freedom and Virtue Institute, writing on Facebook: I have a...

November 05, 2014

Reviving Aramaic

Hoping to establish a clear identity separate from their Muslim neighbors, some Arab Israeli Christians...

November 05, 2014

My Father & Brittany Maynard

An alternative to the sad choice Brittany Maynard made as she was dying. My father...

November 05, 2014

Sex, Drugs, and Learning Words

Expanding the number of words you know excites the same parts of your brain as...

November 05, 2014

Reid Lies

There's tactful political spin and then there's complete [male bovine excretions]: From the execrable Harry...

November 05, 2014

Christ Lost, Says Southern Baptist

My friend Russell Moore of the Southern Baptists' ERLC wrote on Twitter: I was disturbed...

November 04, 2014

To Burke

For those of you who find this kind of thing interesting. From my friend William...

November 04, 2014

We Need More Wives to Stay Home

America needs more social capital than it has, but "many of the important forms of...

November 04, 2014

A Death Museum

In Brooklyn, the new Morbid Anatomy Museum is certainly morbid but also revealing. Its culturally Jewish but...

November 04, 2014

It Is Special To Be Old

A wise article on aging from a young writer. Beginning with Renee Zellwegger's mysterious transformation, Danielle...

November 03, 2014

Jesus Sells

Which is probably a good thing. As reported by a Mother Jones writer, the trade...

November 03, 2014

Sentimentality and Evil, Illustrated by J. K. Rowling

In her "Memoir of Mary Ann," published in Mystery and Manners, Flannery O'Connor offered a famous...

November 03, 2014

Praying for the Dead

An example: In the twenty-six years he's been a priest, our pastor Father Rich Jones...

November 03, 2014

St. Augustine’s Powers

Chad Pecknold, a theologian at Catholic University of America and among other things with me...

November 02, 2014

In New York, Parishes With Unusual Names Closing Faster

For what it's worth, in the merging of parishes the Archdiocese of New York just...

November 02, 2014

Euphemisms: Anomaly

Virgin Gallactic's website reports that SpaceshipTwo "suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of...

November 02, 2014

Suppose you have a kid who tells you he is “gay”

In that case, explains Notre Dame professor John Cavadini, you would benefit from having in...

November 01, 2014

Tom Ricks on Writing

From the same interview quoted in the previous item, defense analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist...

November 01, 2014

Creating Marshalls and Eisenhowers

Defense analyst and Pulitzer Prize finalist Tom Ricks on developing leadership: 13. Let’s talk about...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

The Apolitical Episcopal Church

When I was an Episcopalian and serving on the board of the Episcopal Church's pro-life lobby...

October 31, 2014

The Pope’s Loyal Critics

In contrast to the sour traditionalists I described yesterday in Traditionalists on Francis, Philip Lawler...

October 30, 2014

Russell Kirk, Ghost

Alan Cornett tells a story about the conservative patriarch Russell Kirk at Halloween: The Halloween...

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