Saturday, February 7, 2015

"are the beliefs themselves 'honest'"?

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“It is easy enough to be sincere on the surface, that is, to act honestly according to one’s beliefs; the question is, however, are the bel...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Sext, Wednesday, 1971

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God of mercy, this midday moment of rest is your welcome gift. Bless the work we have begun, make good its defects, and let us finish i...

"the problem with Milton's poetry" is that "it is 'more Miltonic than Christian'".

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     David Quint, in Inside Paradise lost:  reading the designs of Milton's epic (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2014), as...

"This well-supported investigation recovers a great deal of evidence that the church rejected the service of women, but only a few instances where women seem to have been leaders."

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     Amy L. B. Peeler on Women in pastoral ministry:  the story of Santa Praxede, Rome, by Mary M. Schaefer (Oxford:  Oxford University Pres...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

"'I am not supposed to catch Joe. It's Joe's task to catch me.'"

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     "The Flying Rodleighs are trapeze artists who perform in the German circus Simoneit-Barum. When the circus came to Freiburg two ye...

"Dura, perservera, tolera, porta dilationem, et tulisti crucem."

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"in this world of the Church, which completely follows Christ [(in hoc . . . mundo, hoc est Ecclesia, quae tota sequitur Christum, alte...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

"Dover Beach is not about to be submerged. But a tide has turned, and boats at anchor now point the other way."

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     Jonathan Clark on Roger Scruton's In the soul of the world (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2014), in "Books of t...