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Beauty will save ... something

readerjohn wrote 3 months ago: Since my daughter-in-law is Russian, and most of my immediate family is now Orthodox, I tend to look … more →

Tags: Orthodoxy, Literature, Arts and Music, Evangelicalism, Worship, Faith Matters

Confessions

readerjohn wrote 4 months ago: My hope sometimes trumps my experience. I really don’t care for sports any more. When I was yo … more →

Tags: Literature, Sport, sexualia, Evangelicalism, Sundry flakes, Orthopathos, SSM, Same Sex Marriage, Wendell Berry

Friday, December 14, 2012

readerjohn wrote 5 months ago: Pushing hot buttons. The wax nose of 20th-century Protestantism. 1 Alan Jacobs notes a few examples … more →

Tags: Faith & Ideology, Journalism, Evangelicalism, Political Matters, Faith Matters, selection bias

Dancing about Architecture

readerjohn wrote 6 months ago: Empty Ritual, Pantomime, Liturgy. News that stays news. 1 Are “spiritual” and “men … more →

Tags: Worship, Faith Matters

Lord's Day October 21, 2012

readerjohn wrote 7 months ago: The Poet’s Craft. A Steady Place to Stand. History and Myth. Why Ayn Rand’s fiction suck … more →

Tags: Literature, History, Myth, Ayn Rand

Lord's Day, September 16, 2012

readerjohn wrote 8 months ago: When the solution’s a problem. Exploiting the valuable, defending the beloved. Need prophets k … more →

Tags: Scientism, Small Is Beautiful, Miscellany, creation care, Arts and Music, eulogy, Wendell Berry

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

readerjohn wrote 8 months ago: A Cautionary tale. Toxic Tea. An Expression of Faith. Machine versus Creature. 1 Say you’re an activ … more →

Tags: Small Is Beautiful, legalia, SSM, Machines, creatures

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

readerjohn wrote 8 months ago: America’s Unwritten Constitution. In Blackwater Woods. Life Is A Miracle, and so’s the b … more →

Tags: Secularism, Scientism, legalia, creation care, Political Matters, eulogy, Judaism

Friday, September 7, 2012

readerjohn wrote 8 months ago: Science and Mystery. The stench in the Ark. Organic (and local). L.A.P.D.: More than just random bru … more →

Tags: Orthodoxy, Scientism, Small Is Beautiful, Roman Catholicism, Faith Matters, Science

Saturday, August 25, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: Bob Ross as you’ve never seen him! Borrowed time. Cousin Larry’s Chinese Kidney. A remin … more →

Tags: Faith & Ideology, legalia, Religious Freedom, free speech, Arts and Music, Feminism, Worship

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: Richard Cory. The other “hard cases.” A brief refresher course on Julian Assange. The un … more →

Tags: Economía, Corporatism, state capitalism, Sport, sexualia, Life political issues, Abortion distortion factor, Political Matters, Banking

Monday, August 13, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: Phase-outs in the interregnum. Ray Ewry, Second Greatest Olympian Ever. New Agey hokum at the LCWR c … more →

Tags: Faith & Ideology, Literature, Sport, Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Feminism, Political Matters, aging, Civil Rights

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: Old Book Review by a Master. Truth in Political Reporting. Eternal Vigilance Alert. Faith in Faith? … more →

Tags: 9th Commandment Watch, Faith Matters, Humor, Journalism, Literature, Political Matters, Religious Freedom, baudelaire, Book of Mormon

Lord's Day, August 5, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: The Real Work, a poem by St. Wendell of Lane’s Landing. Freedom to say No, a quote from St. Fl … more →

Tags: Arts and Music, Flannery O'Connor, South, Wendell Berry

Friday August 3, 2012

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: Ideological Crossovers. Everything’s political, everything’s “culture wars.” … more →

Tags: Culture, Architecture, sexualia, Miscellany, Life political issues, Political Matters, Cultural Matters, Consumerism, Flannery O'Connor

Tuesday July 31, 2102

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: What’s a liberal arts education without poetry? Satan, in Paradise Lost. Is it schismatic not … more →

Tags: Economía, Faith & Ideology, Education, Small Is Beautiful, state capitalism, Christianity generally, Distributism, Architecture, Religious Freedom

Lord's Day, 7/29/12

readerjohn wrote 9 months ago: My heart is heavy with the weight of things of which I may not yet speak. Were I free to speak of th … more →

Tags: Cultural Matters, Prayer

Daily potpourri 7/20/12 - TGIF edition

readerjohn wrote 10 months ago: Nominalism, realism and faith. Artistic integrity. Civic integrity. Agrarian affectation. Gazing int … more →

Tags: Corporatism, Christianity generally, Literature, Religious Freedom, free speech, Political Matters, Cultural Matters, Faith Matters, Nominalism and Realism

The Nature of Fasting1 comment

Shagufta Ahmad wrote 10 months ago:   Have you not seen the stick of incense? Burn itself to ashes it must So others might receive … more →

Tags: Ramadan, Ramadan leaves incense tree annihilate self


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