Why I am Now a Christian
Ayaan Hirsi Ali at UnHerd
Topic
Religion
A collection of 880 issues
Everlasting GKC for Advent
Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a rejoinder to Neil Young's smug "Southern Man. Likewise, GKC wrote The Everlasting Man as a rejoinder to H.G. Wells' Outline of History.
In both cases, the rejoinders won.
The Everlasting Man explains history as part
The Difference Between Superstition and Religion
Picture Books for Adults
This is a delightful piece from Public Books. I especially liked this observation about how medieval monks would read:
This form of reading, de Hamel says, is one reason why so many medieval manuscripts have richly decorated pages. The decorations “helped impress a page visually in the reader’s memory,
These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres
It's hard to admit this, but here goes:
Back in my twenties, I decided I wanted to be a mystic.
Such a thing is absurd: The goal is foiled by the goal. You might as well decide you want to be a poor man with money (one of
"He is Interested Only in the Individual Soul Whom He Places Before God"
Advocates from across the political field have claimed Christ for their side: Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Conservatives, Monarchists. They all can find something in Christ's life or his words to support their political vision. It isn't surprising, of course, since every doctrine, no matter how absurd, has
How to Think about the Cell Phone
Weapon of Self-Destruction or Tool of Self-Improvement:
The cell phone. Is it a great thing? A useful thing? An annoying thing? An addicting thing?
A ton of writers have condemned the cell phone on all sorts of grounds. They’re tired of rude talkers who use it in
The Nothing Desire
“The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus
Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most
On words and the Word
Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule
Voodoo and Zombies and the Absurdization of All Religions
Well, far out. Voodoo is back.
Actually, it never left.
Voodoo was originally a pagan African religion that got mixed with Catholicism in Haiti during Spanish and French colonial rule.
Since then, it has always been a religious force on the island and in 2003, it became an officially-recognized