October 2009
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The more or less traditional Halloween post about or from Charles Williams’s All Hallows’ Eve. See the 2007 post for a little more about Lester, who is speaking here, and Richard. Here Lester (a woman) leaves what we call the world of the living for the world of what we call the dead, which is…
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…let’s replay the big blocked kick from last week. (Hat tip to Will, who I can’t believe is interested in this.) In the unlikely event that you (a) don’t know the resolution of the claim that Alabama should have been penalized because Cody took his helmet off before the ball was dead, and that as…
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I keep thinking about blind Bartimeus, and the other people, all damaged in one way or another, who reached out to Jesus in their weakness. I suppose someone has made a list of them, but anyone who goes to Mass or reads the New Testament very often can immediately think of several: the woman with…
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Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.” Mark 10:51 This exchange always seem to me to sum up a major part of Christian belief: there is something wrong with me, and only God can fix it.…
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For a really hard-fought game that I can’t honestly say you deserved to lose. Of course I probably wouldn’t say that if you’d won. Which you would have done if you had a better kicker. And hats off to Terrence Cody for two (2) blocked field goals. This Alabama team can’t beat Florida, though. Maybe…
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I refer of course to the Alabama-Tennessee game. Disclaimer: I do not hate Tennessee, or its fans. I believe they deserve equal treatment before the law. One of my uncles went to Tennessee, and he was nevertheless a fine man. I do think, however, that there is some valid scientific evidence that the proportion of…
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Ross Douthat had an interesting piece in the NYT a few days ago on the health care reform issue. Here’s the key passage: We know what one such approach would look like. It’s the eventual endgame that liberals pushing a “public option” are aiming for: a federal takeover of the health-insurance sector, paid for by…
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Here, at National Review Online, is Andrew Stuttaford, more or less applauding the departure of “international brigades”—I think he means Anglicans outside of England—from Anglicanism: “it would be no bad thing if the C of E were to become a little less ‘church,’ and a little more ‘England’…” What makes this so odd to me…
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I wandered over to Icons & Curiosities this afternoon, as I usually do two or three times a week, only to find that it has shut down. The last post invited readers to Sally’s personal blog, calling it Castle in the Sea, which was puzzling, as everyone knows her blog is called Fine Old Famly.…
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A new door has been opened for Anglican communities wishing to enter the Catholic Church. I’m one of those whose eyes begin to glaze over when people talk of the governing structures of the Church in terms more detailed than “Pope, bishops, priests, religious” so I’m not totally sure how much further this goes than…
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