April 2013
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I think this is pretty funny, even though I probably don't get all the visual jokes–I don't recognize most of those people. While I'm at it, I've been meaning to clarify or explain the mild misgiving I've had about our new pope. It's really not about him in the sense of thinking that he won't…
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Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.
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I believe it must be somewhere close to thirty years since I first heard of this book, and thought I’d read it someday. But I didn't get around to it, and might still be not getting around to it, except that Janet Cupo recently recommended it to me, and my wife happened to have loaded…
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Weekend Music I'm sure everyone who's been reading this blog for a while recalls this exciting post in which I compared two recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Murray Perahia's and Glenn Gould's 1955 version. When speaking of Gould and the Goldbergs, one always has to specify which recording, the 1955 or 1981, because they're very…
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As you may have noticed if you've been reading the Thatcher discussion, several comments have been erroneously held by the TypePad spam catcher. So far it's only picked on Daniel Nichols, and I don't have any idea why. However, I just logged in to TypePad and noticed a helpful hint that I should check the…
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It's almost irrelevant whether we call progressivism a religion or a substitute for religion. Either way, in the really committed progressive, it functions as a religion, providing a coherent world-view and a guide to right thought and right conduct. Here's a young mother on MSNBC gently guiding her daughter in the way she should go:…
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I can't pretend that I'm qualified to judge Margaret Thatcher's political career. I've never paid extremely close attention to politics, and almost none to British politics (though I've gotten more interested in recent years). I was aware in the 1980s that she was considered more or less the British Reagan, which I thought was probably…
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There seems to be something wrong with comments. When you post one, you get an error message: 'Can't locate object method "log_user_activity" via package "PhenoType::View"'. So it looks like the comment didn't post, but it did. At least that's what appears to be happening. Update: seems to be working ok now.
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One of Chesterton's more well-known aphorisms holds that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. It is in that spirit that I generally approach a book review. I really don't enjoy doing them, because I feel obliged to do it in such a way as to give the prospective a reader…
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Contrary to what I said a few days ago, although it's not fair to compare a blog comment to an essay–but Jeffery Mirus really covers it very fairly and thoroughly: Critical responses have ranged from a mild concern about the larger impact on rubrical observance of the Pope’s decision to outright condemnation of the Pope, as…
Light On Dark Water 