…I want to start a new career in astrokaleidoscopics. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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Or rather, after the rain at the beach. Here’s that other picture that I couldn’t find yesterday (click to enlarge). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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We went to the beach (the Gulf beach, not the bay) last Sunday, for the first time in a long time, even though we're only 45 minutes or so away. This is one time I wasn’t especially pleased to see rain. But at least I didn’t get the sunburn I was expecting. (Click the pictures…

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This is what a lot of conservatives will be doing on November 4. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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I found a copy of Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions in a local library and looked up the quote referred to in the Three Epiphanies post. I’m relieved to find that my memory wasn’t too far off: This leads to the last and most universal problem of our subject: Does our analysis…

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I've been tagged by Craig Burrell for this “meme” (more about the term in a moment). One of the rules is that you post the rules, so here ya go: Link the person(s) who tagged you Mention the rules on your blog Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking…

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Thanks to Rob G for linking to this beautiful video. I think it deserves a post of its own. Like Rob, I found it very moving. Don’t be in a hurry or distracted when you watch it. It’s a little over six minutes long. My next post may be from Iceland. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – One I’ve had this essay in mind for a while. It’s too long for a blog post, and I thought I would try to place it with some magazine, and perhaps I will do so later, but it occurred to me the other day that I could go ahead and…

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Here, finally, in the first two movements, is the Beethoven I love. I accept, on the testimony of people who understand the technical aspects of music, that the Third Symphony is a great achievement from that point of view, and that it does things that no one had done before. And as I said when…

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This is from one of the daily meditations in Magnificat: Man’s desires are, in some extraordinary way, the image of God’s desire…. Our desires can only be understood in the light of God’s desire…. We must not shut our hearts against desire, but learn how to desire rightly…. We cannot learn to love God by…

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