A couple of brags, and then we’ll get down to business. I had a short story, Exit and Return, cited for Honorable Mention by The New Millenium. It was also short-listed in the Fish Publishing short story contest for 2020. Another short story, The Train, is soon to be published at Fiction Attic Press. […]
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Resurgent Paganism
A review of Pagans & Christians in the City/Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, by Stephen D. Smith Stephen D. Smith is the author of several works concerning secularism and religious freedom, some of them from a Constitutional and legal perspective, as befits a law professor, as he is. In this book, […]
Read more...Postmodernism 101
In my ongoing effort to try to figure out why half the world has lost its collective mind, I read Postmodernism 101 by Heath White, and offer here a few thoughts about it. Very readable, first of all, which is not so for many tomes purportedly about postmodernism. I attribute the usual lack of […]
Read more...Power Struggle
I sit up and pay attention when Roger Scruton speaks. He recently considered the significance of the worldview evinced in books by Uval Noah Harari, who is a biological determinist in the same vein as Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins. Harari acknowledges the philosophical consequences of the humanist rejection of transcendent truth. He goes a step […]
Read more...Friendship
From time to time I’ve asked rhetorically whether there might be a link between the loss of faith and the rise of despair. For example, in a memoir I wrote: We sometimes say people “lose hope” and become despondent, perhaps to the point of despair or even suicide, but what does that phrase really mean? […]
Read more...Etiolated Language
I have written before about how language is debased such that Christian concepts are built into secularism in a confusing way. It is unfortunate not just because precision is lost. It is also unfortunate because it serves to obscure the naturalism endemic to modern secularism. The operating assumption you’re routinely expected to embrace is that […]
Read more...Agony and Hope
Agony and Hope Every so often a young-ish person wrings the hands in print about the difficulty of finding a marriageable mate in this culture. It’s a brave thing to do, really, because if done badly it can subject the writer to ridicule. In fact, done well it can subject the writer to ridicule, because […]
Read more...Thoughtcrime
Fairy Tales I commend to you a consideration of fairy tale and myth as bringers of truth, in an article by Kris Yee in the Imaginative Conservative, here. An excerpt: In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” J.R.R Tolkien defends a certain type of escape, posing the reader with the question: “Why should a man be scorned if, […]
Read more...Hound of Heaven
For some reason I was thinking of this phrase “hound of heaven,” and then on the radio a couple of days ago happened to hear it mentioned. I’ve heard it before as a metaphor for God in His pursuit of us, but didn’t know that it was explicitly the name of a poem, one written […]
Read more...The Serpent
A quote from Christ the Tiger, by Thomas Howard: Our situation is directly analogous to that of men in Death Row. We fill in the time somehow, but we shall not get out. The inevitable event makes the intervening activities look absurd. * * * We are all sitting in Death Row. One fine day the […]
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