April 2008
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Of course you don’t need me to tell you about the pope’s visit, but there’s one thing in his speech at the White House that I want to note: [The Church] is convinced that faith sheds new light on all things, and that the Gospel reveals the noble vocation and sublime destiny of every man…
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Sin, Memory, and Purgatory Human kind cannot bear very much reality. —Eliot “I have done that,” says my memory. “I cannot have done that,” says my pride, and remains adamant. At last—memory yields. —Nietzsche I’ve thought for a long time that part of the pain of purgatory might be the pain of seeing one’s sins…
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I had planned to give this work some serious attention during Lent, an intention which was only partially executed. It’s roughly 90 minutes long, and a stretch of uninterrupted time of that length is pretty hard to find for me. But I didn’t want to break it up. Moreover, its wide dynamic range makes it…
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See Profile. Picture was taken several years ago but I haven’t changed that much—a little greyer, I guess. Location is the almost-full family burial plot in Athens, Alabama. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Often heard, seldom seen. There are several of them in the woods nearby and sometimes they start hooting steadily at each other (arguments? love songs? who knows?). A few days ago my wife and I were out in the yard around sunset and heard him (her?) from much closer than usual. She managed to figure…
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I’ve just watched a segment of EWTN's “Journey Home” program which featured Rosalind Moss, a Jewish convert who, at the age of 65, is about to start a new order of nuns. She’s wonderful, inspiring in many ways. One thing that particularly struck me was her response to a caller who wondered if she (the…
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Daniel Dennett: Wrong About God, Wrong About Man Daniel Dennett, the well-known evangelizer for atheism, recently made a prediction which may be the most thoroughly mistaken one I’ve ever encountered. Anybody can be wrong about future events, and most people are. But Dennett is wrong about fundamental facts in the here-and-now. He predicts that religion…
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I once got sick after eating Mexican food, and it was a couple of years before I could even stand the smell of it (happily, that did not last). I was the same way about Philip Glass’s music for a while. I got off to a bad start with him by listening to The Photographer…
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When I dropped this for Lent I wasn’t sure that I would pick it up again, as it had become something of a burden. But I think I’ll give it another try. Part of the burden was that I had, more or less arbitrarily, decided to write and post it along with the Sunday journal.…
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…with whom I hope to spend a lot of time this weekend. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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