We were born to be princes of the blogosphere…

(More on that song presently!)

Ted Barlow is back!

Istanblog: Vast amounts of interesting reading matter, from an American (? I think) blogger in Turkey. Link via Unqualified Offerings.

Mark Shea: Nicaea has no future!

Sursum Corda: Post on pacifism. (I have not forgotten that I promised more on this. It’s coming. I got dispirited when Blogger ate a post I spent way too long on. But expect post tomorrow-ish.) I don’t really sign on to all of Nixon’s reasoning (Christian ethics, like rabbinically-shaped Jewish ethics, are radically different from how people behave in e.g. the Book of Joshua, and I think Nixon is downplaying that; I’m also not sure he’s accurately characterizing Christian pacifists’ view of the role of the Christian community in salvation, though that’s super-interesting and not something I’d thought about). But this sentence rings very true to me: “In the end, it is precisely because of the complicated nature of this dispute that I am drawn back to my faith as a Catholic in the Tradition of the Church.” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and praying about this question (uh, a lot for me, that is–I’m no Aquinas), and you will soon see whether it’s borne fruit.