May 2012
13 posts
“This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and...”
– Walker Percy (via mysteriousandmundane)
May 28th
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May 28th
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“[F]rom its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the...”
– For the Life of the World, Alexander Schmemann (via poeticfaith)
May 24th
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Poet Marjorie Manwaring 'On Looking At A Snapshot... →
neptune5: Wed. May 23, between 2 & 3 PM, on KUOW 94.9 FM.
May 22nd
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May 21st
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“I acknowledge that I have used four-letter words familiarly all my life, and...”
– Wallace Stegner on Profanity - Magazine - The Atlantic. In the forty-seven years since Stegner published this piece — the whole of which is not online anywhere, as far as I can tell, which is a shame, because it’s a brilliantly funny and insightful essay — the situation have gotten far worse....
May 18th
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May 18th
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Friday morning, when Anne and I found ourselves in... →
May 13th
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Interjection!: The real soul-mate →
garbandier: No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial. Too few are told that — even those brought up ‘in the Church’. Those outside seem seldom to have…
May 10th
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May 10th
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My review of The Avengers. →
May 4th
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“Slate: Have you seen the research connecting football to brain injury? Green:...”
– Why Tim Green thinks college football should not be banned. - Slate Magazine. Wow. It’s amazing what people can avoid knowing when they have an abiding interest in remaining ignorant about something. Mr. Green needs to take particular care not to read articles like this one. (via ayjay)
May 3rd
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“The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental...”
– Wendell Berry, “It All Turns On Affection”
May 3rd
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April 2012
12 posts
Apr 29th
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“Whichever [political philosophy] he adopts, your main task will be the same. Let...”
– -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 34-35. Wow. I guess it’s true, there’s nothing new under the sun. (via mysteriousandmundane)
Apr 29th
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“Let him who does not pray expect nothing whatsoever from God- neither salvation...”
– Fr. Matthew the Poor, Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way (via gmd)
Apr 29th
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“In approaching this problem as a lay Catholic in public life, I have found it...”
– Paul Ryan on the budget and Catholic teaching (via cdnowak)
Apr 27th
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“I also think that Christians need to feel comfortable being critical of the...”
– Ross Douthat (via ayjay)
Apr 18th
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“God condescended to argue with Job, but the last Darwinian will not condescend...”
– G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, 7/17/1920 (via gkchestertonquote)
Apr 18th
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Animated comic book cover GIFs - a... →
Apr 18th
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Apr 10th
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“Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy...”
– Benedict XVI (via settledthingsstrange)
Apr 8th
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“The human desire to occasionally, temporarily, replace the actual world with...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin on Google Goggles (via Brian Friesen)
Apr 7th
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Apr 2nd
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The Kid With a Bike - my review
My review of The Kid With a Bike has been posted at Image. Here’s an excerpt: More than one critic has called The Kid with a Bike “minor Dardennes.” Apparently Samantha seems too good, too forgiving. One calls her “the mom nobody in this world ever had,” and says her actions do not seem very “grounded in the realities of human interaction.” I’ve heard similar charges against two of my...
Apr 2nd
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March 2012
12 posts
Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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Mar 30th
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“Harris is blaming conservatives for doing simply what the space/time continuum...”
– Douglas Wilson, blogging through the latest Sam Harris book. (via sds)
Mar 30th
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“There is nothing glorious about any actual moment of suffering — when...”
– Fr. Richard Rohr
Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 21st
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“It’s that decision not to press charges that makes Stand Your Ground laws, which...”
– Why George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer, hasn’t been prosecuted. - Slate Magazine Fat. Chance. (via ayjay)
Mar 21st
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“The advent of Sarah Palin, however, seemed to usher in a genuine madness that...”
– Can “Good Faith” Still be Assumed? | First Things (via ayjay)
Mar 21st
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“When nothing matters but to realize their vision, writers and artists often tend...”
– Michael Dirda, from pages 28-29 of Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (via settledthingsstrange)
Mar 21st
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“[T]he greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant...”
– Josef Pieper, from Happiness and Contemplation (via settledthingsstrange)
Mar 21st
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“The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows...”
– G.K Chesterton  (via katamariroller)
Mar 13th
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February 2012
17 posts
“There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as...”
– Annie Dillard
Feb 27th
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“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the...”
– Henry Miller
Feb 27th
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“The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are...”
– Oscar Wilde
Feb 27th
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“I would have played piano and then [gotten] Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet up...”
– How Bret McKenzie would have staged his Oscar Performance of ‘Man or Muppet’ (via nprfreshair) That… would have been amazing. (via inappropriateapplause)
Feb 22nd
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“It turns out the Christian story is a good story in which to learn to fail. As...”
– Lauren Winner, Still (via recycledsoul)
Feb 21st
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“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay) This certainly reflects my own experience. When I first began to move to a true rejection of science/faith dualism (extraordinarily difficult to do, even with a reasonable education), I was frequently disturbed by the vastness and complexity of nature, by the...
Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 17th
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“I don’t know what I think of that. Because I think, actually, one of the things...”
– Ira Glass, in response to Kurt Braunohler’s comment, “I do have a theory now. I do have a theory about if I do get married in the future. What I think I would want to do is have an agreement that at the end of seven years, we have to get remarried in order for the marriage to continue. But at the...
Feb 17th
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Feb 14th
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“Q: So how do you see your faith and your art interacting, ideally? A: That...”
– Wayne Roosa, artist and art historian interviewed at First Things
Feb 11th
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“All God’s deeds are inexpressible. We can dishonor them all by speaking about...”
– Hendrikus Berkhof, Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, 9 (quoted here) (h/t)
Feb 11th
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Feb 8th
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