A CHOSEN SON: Disputations on St. Joseph. Read more

In Manhattan’s desert twilight, in the death of afternoon,We walked hand-in-hand down Blogwatch, like the first men on the moon… My eternal Saint Patrick’s Day post. A lot of people think the obvious American wannabe-ness, the green beer and all that, somehow make St Patrick’s Day less awesome. I don’t; why shouldn’t there be a holiday that’s really about America and immigration, even if it pretends to be about Ireland? Amy Welborn: The Pope speaks with kids in a juvenile... Read more

So we knocked a blogwatch back…The Agitator: America, Land Beyond Parody. Family Scholars: David Blankenhorn’s new book, The Future of Marriage. “He Do the Police in Different Voices”: Eliot’s discarded title for The Waste Land. I did not know that. Via First Things. Read more

KARIN ARAD, “BEING FERTILE.” Read more

UNCOMMON-LAW MARRIAGES: I review Andrew Koppelman’s Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines for the New York Post. Read more

“For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”–Luke 14:11 Read more

FOR A GOOD TIME CALL: Finished Tim Powers’s most recent novel, Three Days to Never. Good stuff. Time-travel story about (I think) the difference between repenting something and erasing it–sort of the felix culpa played out in individual lives. Also finally saw The Chimes at Midnight, which was fantastic–I’ll blog more about the movie, and about Falstaff, probably this weekend. Read more

BUT LAST NIGHT THE PLAN FOR A FUTURE WAR WAS ALL I SAW ON CHANNEL 4: More or less via Gene Healy, a post in which I re-read my March 2003 archive and look at what I got wrong. It doesn’t quite work, because I didn’t spell out my changing views on Iraq very clearly (on the blog or, in some respects, to myself–see below). But you can look here and here, plus blogwatches here, here, here, here, to see... Read more

THE SPOILS OF EGYPT: No matter how interesting or acute its analysis in other respects, I mistrust any Christian discussion of same-sex attraction that leaves out the good parts. I know some people’s experiences are very different from mine, but my experience of Sapphism was and is shot through with beauty, compassion, friendship, generosity, and forgiveness, like golden threads in cloth. Other people get that stuff without the problematic sexual stuff, but I can only work with the memories and... Read more

CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR chooses the best Christian science fiction short stories. Comments-boxing ensues! Read more