Call this one your surprising (but not really) must-read of the day, Vanderleun on prayer: For a certain type of extremely stupid smart and educated person, prayer is something to be sneered at their entire life right up to the moment when they see the intergalactic candle snuffer descending on their head or the head of those they love. At this point, it is the rare wiseguy who does not spontaneously discover his or her capacity for prayer. Indeed, it... Read more
Forgot to mention that I have a piece featured in First Things today, entitled Tiller, Long, Bonhoeffer and Assassination. Can you guess what it’s about? An Excerpt: Bonhoeffer was a brilliant theologian; his book The Cost of Discipleship is one of those books a Christian reader goes back to again and again in the course of growth. In weighing the moral question of obedience to institutions who were exceeding their own rights, he once argued, “if a teacher says to... Read more
Barack Obama; Dreams of his Mustache Barack Obama continues to slowly reveal himself to the people he has been elected to serve. He told us something about himself when he put the murder of an abortionist over the murder of one of his soldiers. The death of the abortionist was immediately condemned with a security deployment ordered. It took days upon days for the death of his soldier, at the hands of a convert-to-Islam intent on mayhem, to be acknowledged... Read more
I became mightily annoyed with a commenter yesterday here. He took some exception to my casually wondering what it meant that the Commander-in-Chief had allowed the murder of one of his troops to pass unremarked upon after little coverage, particularly after the same president had wasted no time in expressing great sorrow at the murder of an abortionist. Ignoring the fact that I’ve posted little-to-nothing for the better part of three weeks due to technical issues and family obligations, our... Read more
For the Liturgy of the Hours, here is a podcast of Morning Prayer (aka Lauds), the prayer of pure praise. I’m sure many of you will be pleased to learn that this podcast contains no chanting of any kind, not even for the Canticle, as it was done in the wee small hours, and the throat would not bear it! I spare you, today! As usual, I am reading from the Christian Prayer Breviary, published by the Catholic Book Publishing... Read more
Too much negativity; I could rant for hours about the messy headlines, (how does the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces not mention the murder of one of his soldiers?) but not now. Here’s some good news: This is very cool: Our friend, Michael DC Bowen makes a surprising announcement: If the notion in my mind finds footing it will be that my primary place of online interaction will be at First Things as I slowly put this blog to rest.... Read more
This is a pretty good quiz. I went 12 for 12, although I admit was not 100% on one of the questions, and fudged it. My Elder Son, who doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the news managed 49%. (H/T stoutcat!) Read more
Many of you have been asking for the blogroll; there it is! I know the rosary podcasts are not up yet; they’re coming. The RSS feed is here It’s starting to feel more like home! The Amazon search box is a little lower down (and the paypal donate button if anyone is so inclined, but I wouldn’t blame you if you’re not!) Yes, I’ve missed you guys, too! The news is awful, isn’t it? Has anyone else noticed that the... Read more
Friend Shana is at it again; she’s designed a great tee shirt you can order here. Read more
Not telling you who; go see for yourself. Read more
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