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Contrary to what I said a few days ago, although it's not fair to compare a blog comment to an essay–but Jeffery Mirus really covers it very fairly and thoroughly: Critical responses have ranged from a mild concern about the larger impact on rubrical observance of the Pope’s decision to outright condemnation of the Pope, as…
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Might the British government at long last create a Ministry of Silly Walks? Thought it's still a very long way off, this story certainly raises the hope that the, um, first step has been taken: Speaking earlier this week, the acting deputy general secretary of the [Association of Teachers and Lecturers], Martin Johnson, said: "There's…
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As most everybody knows (well, most everybody who would be reading this blog, anyway), Pope Francis stirred up some controversy in the Maundy Thursday service by including women, including a Muslim, in the group of people whose feet he washed. Some think it a liturgical outrage, some think that outrage is an outrage. For my…
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Florence is one of those girls who look on modern enlightened thought as a sort of personal buddy, and receive with an ill grace cracks at its expense. –Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning
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The four gospels give us different pictures of the readiness with which the followers of Jesus accepted the resurrection. Yesterday, hearing John's version, I was struck by how difficult it must have been for at least some of them to grasp what had occcurred. "They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and…
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Rejoice and sing now, all the round earth, bright with a glorious splendor, for darkness has been vanquished by our eternal King.
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Despite my intense desire to make caustic remarks about various current events, I won't be posting anything until at the earliest sometime late in the day Sunday. I'll look in here occasionally to get rid of any spam that makes it through (TypePad recently switched spam-fighting software and the new system seems to miss more),…
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The king was hale and vigorous and greatly feared by his enemies. He had a little cough, not much to notice or to inconvenience him. But his old physician recognized in it the distant rattle of death. The physician offered him the remedy, but the king would not accept it. "It has a bitter taste,"…
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You remember her, right? The author of Against Autonomy: Justifiying Coercive Paternalism? Here she is again, making her case in the New York Times apropos the almost-universally-scoffed-at ban on 64-ounce “sodas” (sorry, the term is still a little foreign to me). I continue to be astounded by her serene confidence that social science and government–armed…
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Remember the Objective Room from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, an environment designed to undermine or destroy a person's natural responses to disorienting or repellent things? This story made me think of it: as part of a university (!) classroom exercise students were told to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper…
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