• God is Being

    Instead of attempting to free ourselves from the things of the senses, or abstracting from them, we should try to probe deeper into them; not stopping at their external appearance, which changes, but seeking what is hidden deep in their substance; their being, in a word. For God is Being. And thus we shall find…

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  • Christmas is for Everybody

    Pianist Stephen Hough, in the Telegraph: I'm happy when I see people enjoying themselves at Christmas for no religious reason.  Me, too. Thanks to a Facebook friend for this link.

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  • …if the signals came back with comments.  Update: to save you the trouble of finding out from the comments: I fell for an out-of-season April Fool's joke. Bah. 

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  • Christopher Hitchens, RIP

    Sunday Night Journal — December 18, 2011 At least half the Christian and/or conservative bloggers and pundits will have something to say on the passing of Mr. Hitchens, and most of it will be somewhere between mildly sympathetic and adoring. This is a curious phenomenon, because he was not a conservative, and he was an…

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  • (Advent) Weekend Music Maddy Prior With The Carnival Band – A Tapestry Of Carols – 08 – The Angel Gabriel I heard this song used in an Advent context somewhere recently, and looked for it on YouTube, but didn't find it. So I'm trying something new: uploading my own copy. TypePad has an audio feature…

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  • From the SNJ Archives

    One of my many, many unfinished projects is the conversion to blog posts of all the Sunday Night Journal entries that were published in hand-crafted HTML before I started this blog in 2006. Here's July 11, 2004, on the subject of the intelligent design movement. Since I wrote that piece I've become considerably less hopeful that…

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  • Marmite Sighting

    Monday night my wife and I were watching one of the new Inspector Lewis mysteries (The Gift of Promise). There was a scene of a woman fixing breakfast, spreading something on a slice of toast. It was already past when I exclaimed "That's it!", hit rewind (or whatever it should be called now), and watched…

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  • Today of course is the feast day of Our Lady of Gaudalupe. I was too busy to post this earlier but as there are still two hours left in the day in my time zone, I'll do it now.  

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  • Idell

    Sunday Night Journal — December 11, 2011 It was about twenty years ago that I worked briefly with Idell. I was still pretty new in my job, and was not at all happy in it. In fact I was considering whether my decision to take the job would rank among the top five worst mistakes…

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  • From a 2004 tour:  

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