One More Hymn

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

In the update to the Top Ten List below, I mentioned that one hymn I love, which might seem unusual for an America, William Blake’s “Jerusalem.” Seems Ronald Reagan loved it, too, and partly to honor America’s lately-eroding “special relationship” to England, and to honor his great friend, Baroness Thatcher, that hymn was played at President Reagan’s Funeral. Also played at that funeral–as it was, very memorably at the Memorial Service at the National Cathedral, after the attacks of 9/11... Read more

Out of Chaos, Hope

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Real hope, not rhetorical hope. This is very encouraging. How adorable are these kids? I love the teacher who suggests that kids have a right to express to their teacher their dissatisfaction with the teacher’s efforts. The teacher’s unions are going to hate this: Do read Ed Morrissey for more on this subject Read more

Urgent Prayer Request from Kitty!

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Kitty is our Elder Son’s g/f, and a kid with a big heart. She has just called asking if Anchoress readers will please pray for J, (God knows his name) who is in surgery right now and in a very precarious situation. I can’t tell more, but please pray for J. Read more

The 10 Best Hymns – UPDATED

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Okay, we’ve had tons of fun exploring the Joe Carter’s list of the 10 Worst Hymns. And it’s been pretty contentious in that thread–surprisingly so. Now, let’s be more positive. One of Deacon Greg’s readers wondered why we can’t talk about the “10 Best Hymns”: Why not highlight the good instead of the bad? With that in mind, below is a random and totally subjective list, in no particular order, of my personal favorites: 10 relatively new hymns (from the... Read more

Does this Scripture Verse Trouble You?

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Dr. Mark D. Roberts recently wrote about Psalm 137:9, a verse which he said makes us most uncomfortable: The verse is “He shall seize and shall dash your children on the rock!” and of it, Robert’s writes: How can any part of Scripture seem to celebrate the killing of babies? How in the world are we to make sense of this verse? How can we read it, not to mention pray it, as Christians? Didn’t Jesus call us to love... Read more

The Radical Religion of Abortion

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Source: Newsweek We hear a lot, particularly from the “new” atheists and their supporters, about the danger of religion, which–we are told–too often encourages a murderous fundamentalism. Such “tolerant” great thinkers as Rosie O’ Donnell have suggested that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam.” I am inclined to think that radical anything, by its very narrowness, must give one pause and that zealotry can too often stumble into something unthinking, and therefore open to carelessness and exploitation,... Read more

Listen to Lizzie

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I don’t know why you should; no one else does, and I’ve admitted to God more than once he mustn’t listen to me either. But if you find you want to, and you’re in the Louisville, Kentucky area, I’ll be once again talking to Mike Janocik at WLCR AM 1040 on this piece on marriage in a relativistic age, which I hope to write more about, anon. Also, if you missed it, Melissa Clouthier chatted it up on her radio... Read more

Totie Fields

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I spilled coffee all over myself as I was working, today, patted down and kept working. Fixing supper, tonight, I looked down and realized I was still wearing my stained-shirt, which looked pretty bad. I once heard Totie Fields tell Mike Douglas that no woman should ever greet her husband at the door after his hard day at work, wearing a day-stained dress, I used cold water and tried to blot the stain away. Now, I am wearing a very... Read more

The Ten Worst Hymns?

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:40 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Regular readers know how passionately I have argued that too many modern Catholic hymns make one long to reach down one’s own gullet until one has puked up one’s own lungs and can in no way participate in the singing of same. Over at First Thoughts, Joe Carter has listed his choices of The Ten Worst Hymns of All Time. For good measure, he includes music files, and you will easily discern why I completely concur with his choice as... Read more

The "Patheos"

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 1:40 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I’ve had several emails asking me what “Patheos” means. No, it’s not a real word. It is a modern-day clever mash up that takes “path” (as in, you know, a way) and then shares the “th” with theos (as in, “God”), so you could say it means “Godpath” or something like that. I’m still getting up to speed over there, so today’s post is a reprint from here, but one that I think makes a very good exposition of myself... Read more