When healers are replaced with bureaucrats

… it can become ridiculously hard to get help.

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“The Tyranny of Tolerance”

From Ken Myers, writing at Touchstone: In June of 1941, C. S. Lewis preached a sermon that has come down to us as one of his most enduring essays: “The Weight of Glory.” Lewis’s sermon was a reflection on the nature of the rewards that await believers, and he began by making the following claim: “If [...]

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The collapse of solitude and community in our time

Anthony Esolen has a few wise and wonderful things to say about solitude, community, love, truth, and friendship, in “Solitude and Political Friendship” (Public Discourse, December 2, 2011). hat tip: James M. Kushiner, at Mere Comments

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Chapter 8, Not Exactly Dead (Christianity and superstition)

From Not Exactly Dead (MI5 1/2 Series, Book One), available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and through your favorite bricks and mortar store: 8 – FIVE IN THE MORNING, PART 1 He was glad the woman had called ahead. These days it was hard to be coherent before eleven in the morning without at least [...]

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The Founders’ Faith

Some American history, from Citizen Magazine (emphasis in original): …Today, there are some — mainly on the Left — who paint the Founders not as Christians but as Deists, believers in an impersonal creator who left his creations to fend for themselves. But while that description fits less than a handful of the Founders, to [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Updated)

1. Does anyone know which Bible translation(s) the American Founding Fathers were using? It’s my understanding that the Pilgrims used the Geneva Bible (which I’m reading on Kindle in a 1587 edition), but it occurs to me that (off the top of my head) I don’t know what the Founders were hauling with them to [...]

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A little art history (and why so much of it today is ugly)

From “Life Imitates Art: Redeeming Pop Culture” (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Commentary, September 22, 1999): …Up until the Enlightenment, art was seen as a way of expressing profound truths. Not necessarily literal truth; yet even symbols and metaphors reflect something true about reality—like portraying angels with wings or saints with halos. Beauty itself was seen as [...]

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What makes something right or wrong?

It matters what you base your ethics on.

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Reagan being honored in Europe

Statues are being unveiled and streets renamed.

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Ideals are all very well in their way, but…

…Yet even in the stress of work it is often sound policy for a man to halt for a moment and collect his thoughts. There must be some diagnosis of the problem before him, the end to which his work is directed, the conditions under which he labours. While it is useless to tell the [...]

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