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The Ideal Reader?

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January 06, 2011

Dogearring in the tumbril

On the Many Meanings of Encyclopedia

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December 07, 2010

A charming story re: Encyclopedia

Having the Label Arboricide

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November 09, 2010

Amusing anecdote about The Ditch High Priest

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Steven: Poetry, literature, art, music, spirituality--Catholic, Quaker, Sufi, Zen, Taoist, and anything else that tweaks my interest outside of most of the illusory political scene.

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A delightful year of reading, watching, and talking awaits us! - Here's the 2027 schedule for A Good Story is Hard to Find!
The Curt Jester

The Weekly Leo - The Weekly Leo XIV is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc., which I also cross-post on Jimmy Akin’s blog. This version of The Weekly...
Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor

Jesus as Job - I like the symbolism of Job as a type of Christ. He comes from the mysterious East (Uz, east of Israel). Ezekiel explicitly ties the Messiah and the divine...
Biblibio

Maria Turtschaninoff's feminist fantasies - I wrote about Maria Turtschaninoff's *Maresi* many years ago (almost a decade!), not long after I first read it. Like many books, my impression of *Mares...
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

Lahti - I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's revelatory B...
Fred's Place

Favorite novels read in 2017 - Listed in alphabetical order by author: Willa Cather: *Youth and the Bright Medusa* --cheating here, for this is a collection...
Happy Catholic Bookshelf

Night’s Bright Darkness – Review - Some years ago I hear an interview on Al Kresta’s show with Sally Read. She is a a British poet and former psychiatric nurse. The interview involved her co...

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