some slack. Read more

as Catholics and Orthodox in Europe grow closer in the Ecumenism of the Trenches. Of course, not everybody signs off on this. RC Sproul, for instance, goes on living in the 16th Century’s passion for diagrammatic Calvinism by declaring that he will not engage in practical acts of love if this do not comport with his favorite theological schematic: The Roman Catholic Church has a long history of using studied ambiguity in order to win over opponents. Let me be... Read more

undergo brutal sufferings at the hands of violent Abrahamic religionists who had it coming. The Peaceful Earth-Affirming Eastern Religion Adherents burned their poor fingers while setting fire to the priest’s car. Another peaceful Eastern religionist is reported to have thrown his back out when the priest was selfishly rescued by a parishioner just as the peaceful Eastern religionist thrust at him with a sword in a traditional Sri Lankan gesture of “I hate you and want to kill you”. Other... Read more

The Episcopal Organization is greatly upset at Christians who wish to remain Christian and not become Gaia worshippers. Read more

In which we look at the counter-cultural way the Church approaches the scoops and scares of this Decade of Fear. Read more

I logged on to Haloscan yesterday and it demanded I update to the new software. So, being the technologically docile sort that I am, I complied. Hence, the new and confusing comboxes. Sadly, there’s no going back, so we’ll all have to get used to it. I can’t figure out how to make the post bein descending order. If somebody knows, I’m all ears. Beyond that, I hope you will all combox away as is your vivacious custom! Read more

In the spirit of Benedict XVI, I would like to recommend a penitential psalm as grist for meditation for Christians living in a time of fear manipulation. Plato says somewhere that if a people will not have justice as king in their city, then they shall have pleasure and pain whether they will or no. This is what our culture has opted for and our ruling classes, ever keenly alive to what it takes to seize and maintain power, are... Read more

The Holy Father, in contradistinction to the Panic Mongers of the Manufacturers of Culture, urges us to be be sober and not be stampeded around by fearmongers. As ever, the Church is curiously counter-cultural. Read more

The Holy Father, in contradistinction to the Panic Mongers of the Manufacturers of Culture, urges us to be be sober and not be stampeded around by fearmongers. As ever, the Church is curiously counter-cultural. Read more

Conservatism became the Thing That Used to be Conservatism. Quick and dirty summary: It lost trust in the incarnational nature of reality and decided to become a thing of abstract ideas rather than actual peoples with real family ties, lands, histories, and cultures. Do that, and you become a wraith. A very insightful essay that helps me get a much better bearing on the essentially theological blunder that undergirds the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism and, in particular, helps... Read more