Hidden gems in rural towns in Mid-Missouri ... (plus a few shots of me in character) ?? Rich Fountain, MO. Frankenstein, MO. Cemetery, Frankenstein, MO Glass, Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, Starkenburg, MO ? Glass, Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, Starkenburg, MO Ashley Wilkes Col. Sanders O'Hara Rhett Butler Crepuscular [...]
This is a post from my own blog of a few days back. While I mirror many posts both there and here at the Ink Desk, I leave the more contentious ones at my own blog. Anything that's not about culture or the Faith, I don't share with the Ink Desk, nor posts that are potentially too [...]
Let's chase from every single parish Hell and sin and Holy Fear Let's make our architecture garish. Let's chase from every single parish God almighty. Then let's cherish Moods and feelings, vague, unclear - Let's chase from every single parish Hell and sin and Holy Fear.
Peter Kreeft has written the best article of his life, an article that recaps his entire body of work on the Faith, in a way. It is not only a must read, it is a must quote - though I'm tempted to quote the whole thing. One part will have to do. I've written lately on how [...]
The misunderstanding concerning my post on the Hegelian Mambo danced by both parties is that liberals can't imagine Romney as a liberal; or for that matter Obama as a conservative. So when I say Romney is the most liberal candidate the Republicans have ever nominated, my readers think I'm nuts. So let me explain. A better way [...]
My last two posts (both here and at my own blog), The Rape of Reason and Love and War , are connected. In the first, I point out the appalling hate-speech of an otherwise intelligent atheist reader of this blog, who asserts that God "raped a Jewish virgin", and who betrays his anti-Semitism by complaining that [...]
Joseph Pearce writes about the unity of love in this perceptive post , which rightly and gently critiques the great C. S. Lewis. Joseph does so by asserting the essential unity of Love, thereby echoing Pope Benedict, who wrote an entire encyclical on the unity of love, the unity even of Eros and Agape. And while I've written on [...]
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit - the one unforgivable sin. What is it? I suggest that blasphemy against the Spirit might be similar to God “hardening Pharaoh’s heart” – which was not so much God turning Pharaoh bad as God allowing Pharaoh to settle in the badness he had chosen. I think a man who makes [...]
A regular reader of my blog writes to me, disturbed by what he takes to be a disunity in Scripture. It seems to him that the God of the Old Testament is judgmental and wrathful, and that the God of the New Testament is merciful and forgiving - they are two Gods, not one. God the [...]
I wrote early this morning about an atheist commenter's use of the really cool phrase Invisible Sky-Man. That's such a poetic phrase, and it really hits the spot. It makes the believer pause for just a moment and say, "Wait a minute. My God is invisible and He does dwell in heaven, which is kind of [...]
