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Special Chesterton Notice

G.K. Chesterton was born today, on May 29, and died on June 14. The Chesterton and Friends blog [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/] will be featuring a "literary calendar" of sorts during those days, using the sixteen-day window to do some interesting posting about his life and times.

The Prayer Tithe

It's been a good Memorial Day weekend so far. One of the best things: time to engage in idle reading. I've been able to go through books, some old and some new, and casually mull over passages. The mulling was broken up with demands and questions

Kneeling with the Patristics

After seeing yesterday's story in the LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kneel28may28,0,7235402.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines] about kneeling, I consulted Earthen Vessels [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898708370/thedailyeudem-20], a little book by Gabriel Bunge, O.S.B. subtitled

Kneeling in LA

The LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kneel28may28,0,7235402.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines] ran a story this morning about anti-kneeling zealots in southern California. If you're unacquainted with the story, you have to read it to believe it. Excerpts: > Kneeling "is

More EU Aggression

In case your day is going well, check out this story at The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/27/wpolder27.xml] about the European Union's plans to forcibly take land from a farming couple, so the EU can create more

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Something for Sunday Morning

> [P]eople praised him, and people rejected him, and people said Hosanna, and people crucified him. But Jesus held on to the truth. "Whatever happens, I am the beloved of God, and that is who I am." And that allows me to live in a world that

The Real Sex Ed

Two high schoolers were caught on cell phone video during an indiscreet classroom moment [http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17591065], and now the clip is going around the Internet. Authorities say the clip constitutes child pornography. I say Letterman is trying to call them.

Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch . . .

. . . they might mutate [http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19264909-5001022,00.html]: > The team comprising a geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer says the egg came first. > The first chicken developed differently to its avian predecessors. > Such mutations could only have occurred at

Blogging Jeremiad

The new issue of The American Conservative [http://www.amconmag.com/] arrived today, via computer subscription. One of the feature articles is by former blogger Diana Moon, who writes from the perspective of a member of BA: Blogger's Anonymous. She's a self-described blogging addict, who has