Author: readerjohn

I am a retired lawyer and an Orthodox Christian, living in a collapsing civilization, the modern West. There are things I'll miss when it's gone. There are others I won't. I tend to write about both.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

  1. Richard Cory.
  2. The other “hard cases.”
  3. A brief refresher course on Julian Assange.
  4. The unsung hero of the global economy.
  5. Division III rules the moral roost.
  6. Democrats and Civil Liberties.
  7. It makes perfect sense, so Romney will blow it off.

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Dormition

Today is the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. In Roman Catholicism, it’s her Assumption. I’ll spare you the intramural niceties.

For now, it’s enough to say that this Feast will make no sense, or will seem like “Mariolatry,” to anyone who thinks that God came to earth through Mary as water comes to our homes through pipes.