Not to keep bashing a perishing horse, but I wanted to tease out another thought from that Slate article of yesterday. Just to remind ourselves where we were, Ms. Benedikt thinks those of us who don’t invest in the public schools are morally bad and we should stop it. If we put our children in, everyone would benefit. And by “we” I’m thinking she means middle class people who do stuff for their kids, rather than poorer people who pack... Read more
Someone named Allison Benedikt wrote what she calls a “manifesto” over at Slate and I lack the wisdom and sense to click away, even when Peter Leithart has already done a brilliant take down. To sum up, Ms. Benedikt thinks that if you send your children to private school, you are a bad person in a morally bad way, and you should feel guilty and send your children to public school, for the benefit of society as a whole. Whatever... Read more
I managed to stay awake through slightly more than half of the debate last night. I conked out before any of the pro-life stuff. I guess maybe I should have tried to keep my eyes and ears pried open but, on the other hand, why bother. So, I did have three thoughts, in no particular order. 1. The interrupting is so disrespectful. And so off putting. Just because it has become the Way We All Live now doesn’t make it... Read more
So my question is, have those little food videos that play automatically in my Facebook Feed taken the place of what use to be Food TV? Not that I would have any way of answering this question because I don’t ever turn on the tv. The Food Network hasn’t been seen by me for many a year. I was one day surfing through the channels in that long lost past, looking for a cooking show, and came to the devastating... Read more
We did get up a little podcast after all, after thinking that perhaps we were much too tired and who even cares anyway. This week we talk again about the habit of the Christian to hear voices and confuse them with God. It’s a subject that never ceases to fastinate and delight us. Hope you enjoy. This week I didn’t save anything of significance, but I did get an awful of lot of funny things together. So, in the realm... Read more
Good Shepherd’s Tuesday Bible Study finished up Romans this last month and moved on to the upbeat and encouraging book of Ecclesiastes. I was delighted with this choice because Ecclesiastes is my favorite book of the bible (along with a small smattering of others–the Psalms, the Pentateuch, most of the history, the New Testament, the prophets…). From verse one all the way to its glorious dark end, Ecclesiastes expresses the totality of my feelings and experiences–which is kind of the... Read more
I really love Simcha’s What’s for Supper posts. I have been going along wishing I was keeping better, or any track, of what we’re eating week by week. What was good. What utterly failed. Those kinds of important considerations are what I wish I had a grasp on. Because, you know, then eternity will have some kind of greater meaning. Anyway, the most important thing to note, that I keep remarking upon to myself day after day, is What A Great... Read more
One I am lying here in the early dawn covered by dogs and the chatter of one child, chiding myself that I didn’t do more yesterday, like draft this post. It has come to the point, as it does every other year or so, that the systems that keep all our lives ticking along in a more or less orderly fashion can no longer bear the weight of the changing people who inhabit them. They have to be reworked. Adjustments... Read more
I don’t really want to think/write about politics at all any more. However, the debate on Monday irritated me. So, to pick up what I said yesterday, as a way of jumping back in, I will quote myself, “The aggressive, mannish posture of many women in politics–the boxy clothes and insistence on equality–rob women of their natural advantage.” It’s not just the mannish posture and boxy clothes though. The woman “making it in a man’s world” is having to ape... Read more
Matt and I taped a little post debate podcast yesterday, which I hope you will enjoy. It’s not very long–just long enough for me to go off the deep end and start waving my arms about Florence Foster Jenkins. The whole debate made me feel exceedingly unhinged. Shortly after Matt posted ours I listened to Russell Moore who was calm and rational and articulate. So articulate I almost wanted to become Southern Baptist for like 30 seconds. Later I read... Read more
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