Technical difficulties

Not that this hasn’t been a good time to have a blog break (it has been a wonderful time to take a blog break, as it happens), but just so you know, the absence of posts has been due primarily to a computer-related problem, not anything more dire. I am writing this on someone else’s [...]

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Book note: I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

So, I was reading along in Ironies of Faith, continuing to be by turns enchanted and exasperated (not my cup of tea, literary criticism, but I really appreciate the lessons and commentary on Christian belief sprinkled throughout this book), when author Anthony Esolen began to discuss an Italian novel from the 1800s called I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed in [...]

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How honest is your kid’s history textbook?

If you have a child of school age, and they have a textbook that takes note of “The Mayflower Compact,” will you please compare the text presented there, to the original text? Leaving off the signatures, the original (courtesy The Avalon Project at Yale) reads: IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, [...]

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Three tidbits from a sermon

Yesterday, the pastor sprinkled the sermon with a goodly number of stories, three of which I’d like to share, because I think they’re good food for thought. Recalling things verbatim not being one of my strong suits, and me being in author/editor mode these days, these aren’t exactly what the pastor said, but I hope they’re close [...]

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Anonymous snowplower strikes again

I still haven’t figured out who our benefactor is who scrapes the snow from our sidewalk, but this morning, after I swept off the back deck and the van and was feeling the cold start to enter my bones, I headed to the front and found he or she had spared me the chilly bother [...]

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English muffins from scratch

In case you don’t know, it’s not all that hard to make English muffins from scratch. One of my biggest problems is that I never seem to remember between batches how low the burner should be set. The right temperature doesn’t seem high enough to cook bread, but it is. I scorched a few muffins [...]

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‘Best teachable grace moment’ contest

A heads-up for Christian mothers of little girls. Phil at Brandywine Books has info on a contest you might like to enter.

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Asking people to ask for handouts

Yesterday on local radio, the president of the Chamber of Commerce was being interviewed. She was urging people to apply for government aid. Some folks had put their heads together, you see, and thought that something like $500,000 by their estimation (aka guess, at a guess) would flow into this community if only everybody would go apply [...]

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Plowing snow, railroad style

You can slice your way through… hat tip: Kim Komando Then there are rotary plows…

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“Created Equal: How Christianity Shaped the West”

Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College: November 2008 Dinesh D’Souza Author, What’s So Great About Christianity DINESH D’SOUZA is the author of several best selling books, including Illiberal Education, The End of Racism, What’s So Great About America, and, most recently, What’s So Great About Christianity. A graduate of Dartmouth College, [...]

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