Preventing Grace
Santa does not live in heaven with his Lord, having faithfully beat back, literally, the heretics of the church. Read more
Santa does not live in heaven with his Lord, having faithfully beat back, literally, the heretics of the church. Read more
Just to be clear, this is not a How To podcast on this subject but a Stop It one. As in, Don’t Do That. We talk about how there should be a Pence Rule for Women–I shouldn’t have to be alone with a creep if I don’t want to–and why men becoming Christian is good for women. Also, there’s a hefty dose of children arguing in the background. I can’t imagine that you’d want to miss it. And now let... Read more
Advent is a pause, a breath, a consideration of time. Read more
Charles Dickens can be blamed entirely for the toxic idea that the Spiritual Forcefield of Christmas can and will transform not only human society, but the heart itself if only you are merry and generous enough. Read more
It’s Friday and that means Takes! One Welcome to all you who stumbled onto my blog yesterday via the fantastical sharing magic of the internet! Watched my stats climb and climb all day in total amazement. For those of you who wandered back this morning, I just wanted to mention that I blog Every Day. For real. I have nothing else of meaning and purpose to do (just kidding). Seriously, thank you for reading! Two And now on to the... Read more
How does any human person reconcile his love of himself with the occasional revelation that he has behaved badly, will behave badly, and can’t help behaving badly? Read more
So Prince Harry is going to get married. How exciting. I’m sure it will be a good and stabilizing thing for him. Although, on the other hand, just gazing at his blithe and beautiful face, and at her gorgeous arms and gorgeous hair, I’m wondering how many months they’ll manage to stay married. I mean, I’m sure the C of E’s crack team of awesome premarital counselors are on top of it. And the young people themselves don’t look in... Read more
In all the bustle of the weekend I did manage to scroll through Twitter a few times, and was happy to observe that American culture, as so many are pointing out, is undergoing a sudden and seismic shift over what is believed to be acceptable in the relationships between men and women. There is a sniff of revolution in the air, and Morality is making mumbling noises from the dark and dusty corner where she’s been shoved for the last... Read more
A good morning to you all. Hope you survived all the food and shopping. I feel like I maybe did not survive, but am instead floating along in the shadows of purgatory or somewhere like that. But, just for you, we roused ourselves enough into the real world to do up a podcast about thanksgiving, the school assignment we all had to endure, and what kinda of unhelpful things our kids asked for for Christmas. Bit thin on the ground... Read more
It’s the Feast of Christ the King again. You, like me, might not have been paying attention, having lots of other things to think about. The church year might not have been the first and most pressing consideration of your week. And maybe you also didn’t know that there was a massive terrorist attack in Egypt a day or two ago. The death toll is up to three hundred and something. Someone, claiming of be with ISIS, blew up Friday... Read more
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