December 2005
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Continuing The child wonders at the Christmas Tree: Let him continue in the spirit of wonder… So that the glittering rapture, the amazement Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree… So that the reverence and the gaiety May not be forgotten in later experience…. So that before the end, the eightieth Christmas (By “eightieth” meaning whichever is…
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Stained Glass and Organ Music I listen to a lot of recorded music. Too much, really. That overused word “addiction” could perhaps be legitimately applied to my habit, and I find it useful but very painful to give it up or at least cut it way back for a while, which I often do during…
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Solemn Advent Vespers at the Cathedral You can’t read much in the history of Christianity without running across the story of the 10th century Russian emissaries who, being sent by their ruler Prince Vladimir to discover the true religion, decided that they had found it when they witnessed the Divine Liturgy in the Church of…
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Let’s Get Religion Out of the Biology Textbooks I’ve been thinking a lot—“brooding” might be an applicable term—about evolution, materialism, and the nature of science. It seems plain that materialists, in their eagerness to suborn science in aid of their views, have drawn conclusions that aren’t supported by the physical facts. And it occurs to…
Light On Dark Water 