Even the Devils Believe

I’ve harped on the dangers of scientism before on this blog — this is a perfect example. I don’t have access to the study itself, but the Boston Globe article is quite bad — it assumes that because diversity and low levels of civic engagement are correlated, the former must cause the latter, and [...]

My friend Dwight has a post up examining his reactions to a post over at Fr Jake’s place (that post is here). Dwight is specifically reacting to this passage in Jake’s post:
I have come to the point that I have to recognize that God’s ways are not my ways. I know that Christianity is the [...]

I’m back! Hope you’re having a blessed Feast of St Augustine!
The hiatus was great and very energizing, but I’m ready to get back to blogging. A month without saying much feels like a really long time…
There are lots of photos of what I’ve been up to during the past month [...]

One last quick post and then I’m back to radio silence through next weekend — I wanted to add a contribution to bls’ open-ended poetry carnival. This is a translation I did years ago, during college, of a little verse by Pushkin. My translation is actually the third (or more) in a chain, [...]

I’m taking a quick break from my break to blog a couple of items this evening. I’m mostly caught up on email and got a lot of housework done, so I feel justified.
Over my vacation, one of the few blog conversations I really jumped into was a post at Bp Christopher [...]