Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This coming Sunday I will begin featuring my devotional book, Month of Sundays. I've already posted the first devotional on happiness; the rest will follow in sequence. This post is a dedication and the introduction to the book. Dedication This work is associated with several "lasts" and yet another one is the object of this …
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School Sisters of Notre DameChoose Life (Mark MC 4 329) 1976? If you're looking for an album that epitomises the guitar strumming, non-percussional style of music that dominated Catholic Masses during the 1970's, it's hard to beat this album. On top of that, the School Sisters (from Mankato, MN) perform in the cavernous, reverberant acoustics …
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The setting of the novel The Ten Weeks was exactly forty years ago. This is the last of a series of excerpts from the novel, one for each week (except for Weeks Two and Three, which were combined). Click here for more information on the book, including the new e-book version. “There are many unpleasant …
After yesterday's boffo performance by James Clapper and Leon Panetta, conservatives are justifiably upset at our intelligence community. But there's nothing new about this, as this wrap on the CIA's (in particular) uninspiring performance in the Cold War, from Derek Leebaert’s The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory should remind …
Bill Muehlenberg is absolutely beside himself at the French Court of Cassation's (their plus ou moins equivalent of our SCOTUS) rejection of same sex civil marriage: But the real story here is about all those places which have not legalised it, and/or have fought against it. The media tends not to play up these stories. …
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The right is very pleased with British PM David Cameron's attack on multiculturalism: 'Multiculturalism has failed," said British Prime Minister David Cameron last weekend in Munich. If anybody thought they had read those words before, it is because they have. Many times. Last October German Chancellor Angela Merkel (sitting onstage with Mr. Cameron when he …
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Today a great deal of Roman Catholic "folk" music used in parishes tends towards the bland and trite. Much of the blame for this can be laid at OCP's feet, and that fact has been an impetus towards the restoration of more "traditional" music in Masses, an impetus that has come from the Holy See …
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The setting of the novel The Ten Weeks was exactly forty years ago. This is one of a series of excerpts from the novel, one for each week (except for Weeks Two and Three, which were combined). Click here for more information on the book, including the new e-book version. Coleman reviewed the police file …
The Epistle for the Fifth Sunday in Epiphany (which we don't always get to, but this year Easter is very late) is as follows: Therefore, as God’s People, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance; Bearing with one another, and, when there is any ground for complaint, …
Michelle Obama is catching heat for referring to Charlotte, NC's, great barbecue: In listing Charlotte's many virtues, Obama named southern charm, hospitality, diversity — "And of course, great barbecue." That was news to residents, who know that North Carolina's best barbecue lies farther afield. "We appreciate the compliments, and they're all spot-on until that last …
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Positive Infinity 