Sunday Night Journal
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Sunday Night Journal — April 25, 2004M There was a large rally for abortion rights in Washington today. A few days ago I happened across a list of celebrities who intended to participate, and I took time to read it because I try to avoid spending money on the work of artists who are militant…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 18, 2004 Certain anecdotal evidence, including particularly conversations with several of my children (ages sixteen to twenty-four), leads me to believe that Jews who have been almost hysterical in their insistence that The Passion of the Christ conveys and will foster anti-Semitism are fighting the wrong battle. My son John,…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 11, 2004 The phrase is my brother John’s description of Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ, and it’s the most apt I’ve heard. To dwell on the Passion on Easter Sunday may not seem appropriate, but that also is apt, I think, in this case, as I shall…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 4, 2004 Since my first reading, many years ago, of Perelandra, I’ve often reflected on one particular symbol from it. It comes to me unbidden when I attempt to examine my conscience and to discover what mental forces are at work in me to undo my (rather feeble) good intentions.…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 4, 2004 Since my first reading, many years ago, of Perelandra,I’ve often reflected on one particular symbol from it. It comes to me unbidden when I attempt to examine my conscience and to discover what mental forces are at work in me to undo my (rather feeble) good intentions. That…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 28, 2004 I have been listening to a recording of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra while driving home from work most weekday evenings. This is intended to be a piece of Lenten seriousness. If listening to this reading is not penitential it is certainly a source of spiritual renewal, and it…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 28, 2004 I have been listening to a recording of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra while driving home from work most weekday evenings. This is intended to be a piece of Lenten seriousness. If listening to this reading is not penitential it is certainly a source of spiritual renewal, and it…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 21, 2004 I am a lazy man who leads a busy but sedentary life. I have a desk job and usually work through lunch. I spend an hour and a half every day in the car, going to work and coming home. What little leisure I have I prefer to…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 14, 2004 Although I have pretty strong political convictions and opinions, I have not wanted to spend much time expressing them here. (If you want to classify my politics, I’m a conservative of more traditionalist than libertarian bent, and Russell Kirk’sTen Conservative Principles are more or less my own.) This…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 7, 2004 I believe it has been more than once remarked, memorably by C. S. Lewis, that Christianity encompasses equally the mysterious and the reasonable aspects of religion—what Lewis called the thick and the thin and I call Blood and Light. On the one hand dangerous incomprehensible powers with definite…
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