It's needed now: One thing that always struck me about this and so many other penitential rites in the Anglican liturgy (like this one) is that God always is ready to forgive and have us back. That's missing in many of the moral systems that are being imposed on us these days.
The Hidden Life of Jesus Until His Baptism
This section of the Elevations concentrates on Jesus’ growing up years, and specifically the one incident that is recorded in the Gospel: his visit to Jerusalem, his separation from his parents, his time in the Temple with the Jewish sages, and his reunion with his parents. The weeks are as follows: The hidden life of …
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My Canadian Sheeple Problem
Justin Trudeau's brutal suppression of the truckers' protest in Ottawa--and it upholding by the Canadian Parliament--has for me one silver lining. It's solved a long-running mystery concerning a long time commenter (troll, really) of this blog and then my Twitter account, one David Lloyd-Jones of Toronto. For four years, from 2013 to 2017, we went …
The liberal order is already dead — Unherd
In the summer of 1990, I stood where the wall had been and wondered at what had happened to Europe. I wasn’t alone: the rest of the city, the rest of…The liberal order is already dead
Those Un-Aspirational Americans
Or, as the New York Times magazine put it, anti-ambitional: But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. After the latest employment numbers were released in February (which seemed to show remarkable job growth and an unemployment rate of 4 percent), one B.L.S. economist took to his Substack to call it the “most complicated job …
Those Needy Pentecostals
One of the things I heard frequently as a NOM (Novus Ordo Missae, as opposed to a Trad or Rad Trad) Catholic was the phrase "your needy people." This was generally rolled out when same needy people were about to "come to the table" (which they really didn't.) And yet...somehow, the whole concept of "needy …
The Passage from Jerome that Landed @bethallisonbarr in a Mess
It's this one, from Jerome's Letter 108, his panegyric to Paula at the time of her death: Inflamed by their virtues she thought more and more each moment of forsaking her home. Disregarding her house, her children, her servants, her property, and in a word everything connected with the world, she was eager — alone …
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Back in the Day, They All Hated Science
Another one of those "inconvenient truths:" Embracing the science he hated until a year ago means that like a whole lot of partisan people, he only pretends to accept it because the issue is political. Writing in The Daily Beast, Louis Anslow reminds the public that just a few years ago Young released a whole …
The Left Pushes Back Against Vaccine Mandates
Yes, they do: As writers from the Left, we are disturbed by this turn of events. We don’t think there is anything progressive about the current move towards compelled — and in places mandatory — Covid vaccinations. These are discriminatory against minority communities, many of whom for historical reasons are suspicious of medicine and the …
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“Getting to Know You”: My Profile for UTC’s College of Engineering and Computer Science
It's not often that someone else does a write-up about me, but where I teach (at the University of Chattanooga's College of Engineering and Computer Science) they did a profile of me in their series "Getting to Know You." You can read it all here.
Positive Infinity 