Sunday Night Journal 2011
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Sunday Night Journal — July 31, 2011 I picked up this little book at a used-book sale a few weeks ago and immediately began reading it, partly because it’s so short. I’ve had a copy of The Reed of God sitting around the house unread for years, and have encountered intriguing samples of Houselander’s work
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Sunday Night Journal — July 24, 2011 As almost anyone who is at all interested in the matter knows, the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae reaffirming the ancient Christian ban on artificial (barrier or chemical) methods of avoiding pregnancy came at the end of a decades-long struggle for their acceptance. The pope took
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Sunday Night Journal — July 17, 2011 I know Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory by reputation, but have never read it. When it was published in the 1970s, it was immediately considered an important book, and seems to have retained that status ever since, as I run across references to it from
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Sunday Night Journal — July 10, 2011 This is something I’ve been planning to mention for some months. It’s been quite a while now—I’m not sure I want to remind myself of just how long—since Dale Nelson sent me a copy of his excellent article on Victorian poet Coventry Patmore’s long poem The Angel In
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Sunday Night Journal — July 3, 2011 (I was going to write about something else today, but this is something I’ve been thinking about, and it’s appropriate for Independence Day, so I think I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way.) The term “culture war” in this country generally refers to the conflict
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Sunday Night Journal — June 26, 2011 On my way to work Friday morning, crossing Mobile Bay, I saw something I’d only seen once before, though I’ve made that crossing twice every workday since 1992: a hawk of some kind with a fish in its claws, flying away toward its nest, or wherever they go
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Sunday Night Journal — June 19, 2011 A few weeks ago I was having lunch with some relatives whom I don’t see very often. The conversation turned to politics, and as has been my habit for a good while now when people are discussing politics, I listened but didn’t speak. Eventually someone noticed this. “So
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Sunday Night Journal — June 12, 2011 I normally don't get involved in political or religious discussions on Facebook, because I'm "friends" with people who have strong views on all sides, and who needs more rancor in his life? I ventured into one a week or so ago, much against my better judgment, and then
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Sunday Night Journal — June 5, 2011 Ingmar Bergman: Interviews, edited by Raphael Shargel. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. It wasn’t until I started to write this review that I looked at the publication data of the book. Why was it published by the University Press of Mississippi instead of some bigger and more well-known
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Sunday Night Journal — May 15, 2011 Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Originally published by Capra Press, 1994; current edition Image Continuum, 2010. * One thing that annoys me about my writing is that it’s so self-centered. It’s not just that I write about myself a lot, it’s also that even
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