September 2013
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I really do want to like this pope. And I really do like many of the things he's said (I especially loved the remark that shepherds should smell like their sheep). But his admirers in the secular media are making it difficult. I know, they always distort things where the Church is concerned, and he…
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I went off on another trail, as is my tendency, and haven't finished this book yet. But at this point, about halfway through, I think it may be the best book I've ever read on the contemporary social-political situation. Maybe that's not saying a lot, since I haven't read many such books. Suffice to say…
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"Throw in a patch work face, a southern accent and some hogs and you got a villain that literally makes your skin crawl."
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Monday Music Somehow I never got around to posting this on Saturday, and by Sunday afternoon it seemed a bit late to call it "Weekend Music." It's a track from a recent ECM release which is my current enthusiasm. I've been taking advantages of the low prices at eMusic.com to explore some of ECM's back…
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Janet has asked me to post this request: Please pray for my daughter-in-law Meghan who fell from a rather high porch onto her head. She seems to be all right, except that she has two cracked vertebrae, and will need surgery tomorrow. Please pray for her health and also that this might help to draw…
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Although there is still some argument about it, many experts seem to believe that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system. In the absence of a marker out there with a sign saying "You are now leaving the sphere of Sol," there are subtle differences in the relative emptiness of space that distinguish…
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To assert seriously the superior authority of transcendent truth or to reject "inclusiveness"–to say, for example, that homosexuality or the cultural effects of immigration are a problem–is to be excluded from respectable public life, viewed as potentially violent, treated as a threat to social order, and subjected to social, vocational, and occasionally (especially outside the…
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I didn't say "support."
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Shakespeare in the original pronunciation. Completely fascinating.
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"Surprisingly, there is no contemporary record for the actual existence of someone called Arthur."
Light On Dark Water 