Posted in books, faith, miscellany, nature on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuart Kauffman writes about the shortcomings and ultimate failure of reductionism in science.
If no natural law suffices to describe the evolution of the biosphere, of technological evolution, of human history, what replaces it? In its place is a wondrous radical creativity without a supernatural Creator. Look out your window at the life teeming about you. [...]
Posted in faith on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Dr. Hutchens writes about the loss of faith at Mere Comments, the blog for Touchstone magazine, which I highly recommend to any and all.
At the base of the religion of mediocrity, I came to believe, was our church’s doctrine of “security” in which the admonition, found in numerous forms in the New Testament, to “be [...]
Posted in books, faith, family, homeschool on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I place a great deal of stock in precision in language. Words and how they are used, after all, are a direct manifestation of our thoughts. Once upon a time, I’d wanted to teach English, but a quarter in the College of Education cured me of that. I didn’t even finish it out, dropping the [...]
Posted in books, faith, family on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
We hope everyone had a good Easter. We certainly did - lots of visiting relatives, including cousins which bring the brood-count up to 8. The bunny came and left candy, all of us went to a very crowded Mass, then we came home and hunted eggs. We believe all of them have been found; time [...]
Posted in books, faith on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote the following poem, inspired both by a legend and an account of Plutarch. In them, the ancient gods of Greece swooned and died at the hour of the crucifixion. The pagan landscape, lost Arcadia, was left silent and empty at the hour “when One in Sion / Hung for love’s sake [...]
Posted in faith on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“I give you a new commandment.”
Today is Maundy Thursday, Holy Thursday according to my calendar.
The final days of Holy Week are upon us - on this night, our Lord instituted the Eucharist, prayed the High Priestly Prayer as found in John’s narrative and entered into the agony of the garden. This is the night [...]
Posted in faith on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m back home for a day and jetting out again tomorrow. I’ll be back tomorrow night, which is good, then home for awhile, which is even better. Since this is St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll post his Lorica (”Breastplate”), which dates to around 377 AD.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the [...]
Posted in faith, miscellany on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…has a peculiar sense of timing (the storyline begins here). I mean, really. The week before Holy Week? At least he can rest assured that no one is busy writing a fatwah against him.
Posted in books, faith on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, maybe a little too serious. Here’s the passage from C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves which I mentioned the other day.
But, it will be replied, [sex] is serious. Yes; quadruply so. First, theologically, because this is the body’s share in marriage which, by God’s choice, is the mystical image of the union between God and [...]
Posted in books, faith on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
…for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
- St. Augustine, Confessions, I
I just finished The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis. There’s alot of Lewis about these days - I’ve nearly completed his contribution to the Oxford History of English Literature, Poetry and Prose in the [...]
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