February 2008
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Over at the Crunchy Con blog, Rod Dreher describes his perfect Valentine’s Day dinner: On the menu: to start, a dozen briny raw oysters, slurped from the shell and washed down with cold Chablis. Then a bottle of Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame. A simple salad with warm, crusted goat cheese. Halibut in an herbaceous…
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I’m a little late in linking to this, as the discussion seems to have petered out, at least for the moment, but I thought I’d mention it for those (if any) who might read this blog but not Touchstone’s. It’s a post by Anthony Esolen responding to an article on the question of whether it’s…
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Love Not in Vain: The Open Secret Well, I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome and I could not help but cry All my love's in vain —Robert Johnson All the way to heaven is heaven. —St. Catherine of Siena Since watching Bergman’s Winter Light recently, I’ve been haunted by a scene in which a…
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I haven’t read any of N.T. Wright's books—just a couple of magazine articles—but I know he’s regarded by many orthodox Catholics as a pretty solid theologian (he’s the Anglican Bishop of Durham). Here he is in Time, talking about the authentic Christian conception of heaven and asserting that many or most Christians have it wrong.…
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I have actually done this. My daughter Clare was lucky enough to witness it. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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As part of a substantial rearrangement of our house, my wife and I have been going through our books and forcing ourselves to get rid of those we’re pretty sure we’ll never read or never read again. On Monday I found a little book that I probably bought at a library sale and have never…
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Here’s something I wrote about it a few years ago. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The Terrible Severance We went to a Mardi Gras parade Saturday night in Daphne, a little town just up the road. Standing around, bored, waiting for the parade to start, I heard a small voice say “Hi.” I looked down to see a little girl with long dark hair, four years old or so. “Hi,”…
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Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen was born in 1934, and considering not just the productive life but the physical life of most popular music performers, it’s a little surprising that he was still active in 2001, at the age of 66, when this album was made. It’s even more surprising that he was…
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The day of the absolute last game of the season seems like a good time to commemorate this scene. It occurred off the field, a minute or two after Mississippi State's last-second come-from-behind win over Ole Miss: As those who follow the Southeastern Conference at all know, Sylvester ("Sly") Croom was one of the first…
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