- Swimming lesson.
- Poetry recommendation.
- Making room for religion until it dies.
- Golden Rule of mixed-religion gatherings.
* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Category: Poetry
Tasty Tidbits 10/21/11
- Mormon Potpourri.
- Return of Distributism.
- What holds us together?
- Are Architects blind?!
- An aging poem.
- David Pogue belatedly discovers Dropbox.
- Cutting God down to size.
Calvinist Concessions galore – why not Orthodoxy?
I seldom comment critically on Reformed Christianity – Calvinism, my last waystation before Orthodoxy – but a very telling set of concessions from a Calvinist scholar leaves me wondering what thoughtful Calvinists think they stand to lose by
- giving up on restoring missing elements of balance to Calvinism and
- returning to the Church that never abandoned those elements.
Continue reading “Calvinist Concessions galore – why not Orthodoxy?”
Tasty Tidbits 10/10/11
- Trendier than Thou; less devout, too.
- Beauty makes a comeback?
- Nicholas Kristof is not just another limousine liberal.
- OWS gets its sea legs, at least a little.
- New blog discovery.
- Another poem touching on aging.
- How extensive is the state’s imperial reach.
- On writing.
Tasty Tidbits 10/7/11
- Cobblestone Conservative.
- George Will on Elizabeth Warren.
- Paraphernalia
- Chromosome wars.
- … but I know what I like.
- Maurice Sendak may be even more inconsistent than I am.
- Overheard.
- Happy birthday, JWR!
Tasty Tidbits 9/26/11
- Conscience and coercion.
- Out of sight, out of mind, part 1
- Out of sight, out of mind, part 2
- “Chamber of Commerce conservatism.”
- Happy birthday, Heidegger!
- Green goes goofy.
- Experience versus theory.
- Short and Sweet
Tasty Tidbits 9/23/11
- German Lutheran Ecumenism (and other contact sports).
- Party on!
- Adam & Eve.
- Nader 2012.
- What secrets am I not yet ready for?
- Devil in a box, horns through the roof tiles.
- Three-Legged Blues.
Tasty Tidbits 9/15/11
- Octomom Redux.
- Sex is optional.
- “Social issues” waning?
- Provoking culture war.
- Tom Howard anthology.
- Aggressively inarticulate.
- Time magazine, adult edition.
- An original poem.
Tasty Tidbits 8/10/11
- Should Christians stay the heck in the closet?
- Contraceptives I.
- Contraceptives II.
- Regulate the Messenger!
- What if “the one what brung ya” is too boring to dance with?
- Fake blessings, real blessings.
Tasty Tidbits 8/9/11
- Superfluity 95% deleted.
- Heckling the umpire.
- Flash Mob! (No video. No news coverage. Nothing to see here. Move along now.)
- A Republican Moderate?
- Bad anthropology, timely politics.
- John R.W. Stott again.
- A pattern poem.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 