March 2004

  • Re-Reading Perelandra

    Sunday Night Journal — March 28, 2004 I have been listening to a recording of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra while driving home from work most weekday evenings. This is intended to be a piece of Lenten seriousness. If listening to this reading is not penitential it is certainly a source of spiritual renewal, and it…

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  • Re-reading Perelandra

    Sunday Night Journal — March 28, 2004 I have been listening to a recording of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra while driving home from work most weekday evenings. This is intended to be a piece of Lenten seriousness. If listening to this reading is not penitential it is certainly a source of spiritual renewal, and it…

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  • Lenten Exercise

    Sunday Night Journal — March 21, 2004 I am a lazy man who leads a busy but sedentary life. I have a desk job and usually work through lunch. I spend an hour and a half every day in the car, going to work and coming home. What little leisure I have I prefer to…

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  • Sunday Night Journal — March 14, 2004 Although I have pretty strong political convictions and opinions, I have not wanted to spend much time expressing them here. (If you want to classify my politics, I’m a conservative of more traditionalist than libertarian bent, and Russell Kirk’sTen Conservative Principles are more or less my own.) This…

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  • Blood And Light

    Sunday Night Journal — March 7, 2004 I believe it has been more than once remarked, memorably by C. S. Lewis, that Christianity encompasses equally the mysterious and the reasonable aspects of religion—what Lewis called the thick and the thin and I call Blood and Light. On the one hand dangerous incomprehensible powers with definite…

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