May 2011
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I mentioned that I had been out of town for a couple of days. On Sunday my wife and I went to St. Joseph’s Abbey (Benedictine) and Seminary in Covington, Louisiana, for a performance by the NOVA (New Orleans Vocal Arts) Chorale, in which my daughter Clare sings. Covington is across Lake Ponchartrain from New…
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Sunday Night Journal — May 30, 2011 Monday night, actually. I went out of town yesterday, expecting to be back in time to write something more on this. But our plans changed, and I only have time to link to this Memorial Day post from the first year of the Sunday Night Journal. And I’ll…
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One of the most difficult things for a believer to do is to help a doubter. …we must…according to Paul's words, mourn with those who mourn, question with those who question, and doubt with those who doubt, for these will overcome their distrust of splendor only in this muted light. –Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Weekend Music I give you permission to laugh at me for this one. I can't really defend it artistically, though I won't apologize for liking the first thirty or forty seconds. Let me explain why I like it so much: Somewhere back in the 1980s, when our children were small, my wife and I discovered…
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Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what [liberalism] really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism. This is from Edward Feser, quoted by Graeme Hunter in Touchstone, in a review of Feser's book the Last Superstion: A Refutation of the New Atheism. I gather…
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Surely you wouldn't quote a Python routine at him, would you? I mean, they must be thoroughly sick of that stuff. Or maybe not. Actually, I'm pretty sure what I would say: nothing. I would pretend not to know who he was, assuming that the last thing he wants is for some stranger to start…
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Sharks leave Vancouver stunned after being done in by weird bounce Another one for which the imaginary story is undoubtedly better than the real one (it's probably sports-related).
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Here’s something a little different in the Dylan birthday tribute line: his Top 10 Most Overlooked Songs. That’s in the opinion of one guy, so naturally no other Dylan fan in the whole wide world will agree with every choice. I have to admit that I haven’t heard them all, and one or two I don’t…
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Harold Camping is a very slow learner. Or maybe just really stubborn. Or, as I suggested before, full of pride.
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…but I couldn't help being amused by the news that two of bin Laden's wives have turned against the third. And also by the joke about him giving his location to the CIA in order to get away from them.
Light On Dark Water 