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Money, Power, Sex versus Subsistence

Tweet This PostBrief Note: So, I’m grading intro to lit papers. I don’t mind so much because the class is unusually good this semester and the books they chose are ones that interest me – as well as...

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On Maundy Thursday

Tweet This Post[ by Charles Cameron -- cross-posted from Zenpundit ] . It is the evening of another Maundy Thursday — in the western Christian tradition, the day on which Christ washed the feet of his...

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The Deposition

Tweet This Post[ by Charles Cameron -- devotional, Good Friday - cross-posted from Zenpundit ] .   The Word is     You could fold Christ up, once he’s dead and you’ve taken him down from the cross:...

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Art Thou Only a Stranger in Jerusalem?

Tweet This PostSupper at Emmaus (1642), Rembrandt van Rijn 13 Καὶ ἰδοὺ δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν ἦσαν πορευόμενοι ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ εἰς κώμην ἀπέχουσαν σταδίους ἑξήκοντα ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλήμ, ᾗ ὄνομα Ἐμμαοῦς. 14 καὶ...

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Between the warrior and the monk (ii): Fr Trevor Huddleston

Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- a warrior, a monk, and where that leaves me ] . In the first part of this post I introduced you to my father, Captain OG Cameron DSC, RN, the man who...

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Between the warrior and the monk (iii): poetry and sacrament

Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- a warrior, a monk, and (still to come, in a fourth and final post) where that leaves me ] . . How I have loved that handwriting! How I loved that man!...

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Not Morsi but Mahdi

Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- Egyptian presidency, Mahdist candidate, Center for Millennial Studies, Christ candidate ] . Source. . I ran across this reasonably remarkable web image...

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When It Was Natural for Parents to Bury Their Children

Tweet This PostHistory gives us breadth: people in action on a grand stage, consequential ideas with great if unforeseen consequences; the demographer’s statistics and tables distil huge movements...

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Musings on L’Affaire du Poulet Filet

Tweet This PostTaking it into my head to go to the local Chick-fil-A last Wednesday was another one of those odd things, like getting involved in the Tea party which happened because of a friend. In...

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Pussy Riot Dog Whistle

Tweet This PostOrthodoxy is not a religion that is widely understood in the West. So it’s actually the rare pundit that catches how offensive what this punk riot group was doing actually was. There’s...

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Pussy Riot Links

Tweet This PostIn case you’ve missed them, here are links, in chronological order, to several views of the ongoing controversy: TM Lutas Helen Szamuely, Post 1 (and also, and also) Charles Cameron,...

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The Pussy Riots Seen from Texas by an ROCOR Priest’s Wife

Tweet This PostGinny, a colleague of mine, invited me to read the posts related to Pussy Riot and contribute to the discussion from my perspective as a non-Russian, ROCOR priest’s wife. I’ve learned a...

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I’m More Awesome Than You CAN Imagine

Tweet This PostSorry I haven’t been blogging any during the last eight months but the truth is that I’ve been wrestling with a big decision that affects everyone and I didn’t quite know how to explain...

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RERUN–Sleeping with the Enemy

Tweet This Post(originally posted 2/26/10) Why has the western world shown such loss of will in defending itself from radical Islamic terrorism? Why, indeed, do substantial numbers of...

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The Christians’ Dirty Deal In Arabia

Tweet This PostChristians are being offered one more round of a longstanding dirty deal, this time in Bahrain. If only they will be loyal thugs, enforcers, secret policemen, and tax men, the royals...

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History Friday: Byzantine

Tweet This PostWe bumptious Americans are always being reminded by everyone from Henry James on, that things in Europe are old, historic, and ancient. We are told that some places are piled thick in...

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Election Shocker – McCain out polls Romney!!??

Tweet This PostAs  I was perusing the flotsam and jetsam sloshing around in the swamps after last night’s storm, I came across this surprising (shocking really) bit of information. Turnout was way...

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A Couple of Interesting Links

Tweet This PostOn-line content for a wide range of magazines, some of them dating back to the 1830s, also some books and videos. Via Rick Darby, who notes that Google Books also has an extensive...

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Gessler’s Hat

Tweet This PostIn the foundation-legend of the Swiss confederacy, Alberect Gessler was a cruel and tyrannical overlord installed by the Austrians, who installed his hat atop a pole in the public...

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The future of Islam or its absence.

Tweet This PostSpengler has a new column that points out the coming collapse of Islam as a demographic entity. I have thought for years that Iran, if the population ever succeeds in overthrowing the...

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