March 2012
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It is of course an LP cover from 1955, the music being a selection of what used to be called "light classics," played by the Columbia Symphony, the in-house orchestra of Columbia Records, and conducted by Artur Rodzinski. (I can't believe Columbia Records is no more.) That's the graphic that accompanies the downloadable version of…
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…is always already participating in the poetics of the gendered body. This is fun.
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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. –Flannery O'Connor
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David Horowitz: A Point In Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next The only reason I was not surprised that this book came from the hand of David Horowitz was that I had read his Radical Son, and already gotten over my surprise that such a ferocious political combatant would write…
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I'm in the middle of trying to write a book review for today's Sunday journal, but wanted to go ahead and mention that Janet Cupo, no doubt the most frequent commenter here from the beginning (and the Janet of the Undead threads), now has a blog and it's off to an excellent start. It's called The…
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"The kingdom of God is within you." This saying shows, I believe, that the goodness of God is not separated from our nature, or far away from those who seek it, but it is ever present in each individual, unknown, and forgotten when one is choked by the cares and pleasures of life, but discovered…
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Movie director James Cameron plans to go seven miles under the ocean in a 24-foot craft that has a 43-inch-wide space for him. It's amazing that such a thing is possible, more amazing that anyone is willing to do it…[shudder]
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are very, very fine. I know it's the internet, but do yourself a favor, force yourself to slow down enough to take in one or two, then come back later for more.
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From his weekly audience today: To hear God’s word requires the cultivation of outward and inward silence, so that His voice can resound within our hearts and shape our lives… Silence has the capacity to open a space in our inner being, a space in which God can dwell… In our prayers we often find…
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A Little GKC Chief among my complaints last week about the treatment of Chesterton by Christopher Hitchens was the fact that he passed over Chesterton’s spiritual vision while in the end dismissing him for certain of his political views. I wanted then to describe or summarize that vision, by way of justifying the importance I…
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