Religion
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Apropos the conversation with Daniel (on this post) about anti-Muslim feeling in the U.S., I wondered how many mosques there are in the state of Alabama, and I found some interesting stuff. Many people in this country would be quick to tell you that white southerners are the most racist xenophobic etc. in the country.…
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I don't believe in memes, in the sense that the term was meant when it was invented, so I'm not going to call this a meme. Theme is a perfectly good word for it, a conversational topic passed around in a sort of game, and Pentimento tagged me with this one: what are your three favorite prayers? 1)…
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Sympathetic words (more sympathetic than mine) for Anne Rice, from Kathryn Jean Lopez.
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I know she’s serious, and it’s a serious matter, but I couldn’t help snickering a bit at the way Anne Rice has publicly repudiated Christianity. It sounds so juvenile, like a teenage girl yelling “I just…just…HATE all of you!”, bursting into tears, running off into her room and slamming the door. I really don’t know…
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This review by Craig Burrell of a book about the liturgy is itself an excellent essay on the topic.
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Weekend Music [Mac’s much-abused conscience: Yes, Pittsburgh, and what right does someone from Alabama have to snicker at the juxtaposition of Pittsburgh and first-class liturgical music?] [Mac’s excuse-making faculty, not as far as I know specifically identified by theologians: I know, it’s just…you know, the image is all…like, industrial and stuff…] My daughter Clare is…
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. —Camus From Plato to Hegel and beyond, some of the greatest philosophers declared that what you think about death, and life beyond it, is the key to thinking seriously about everything else–and, indeed, that it provides one of…
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Sunday Night Journal — May 16, 2010 I sat down this afternoon to resume work on the next installment of the memoir, and had written a few paragraphs when my wife offered me some lunch, which of course I accepted. Then we decided to eat in front of the television, something we haven’t done very…
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“…a general principle, which comes before us again and again…that God’s Presence is not discerned at the time when it is upon us, but afterwards, when we look back upon what is gone and over.” —Newman
Light On Dark Water 