A friend pointed me to this article which is Professor Thomas Bertanneau’s depressing analysis of the “scholars” who are presently taking up space in our colleges and universities. I’ve seen this sort of thing firsthand but I’ve been hoping that what I was seeing was not widespread. Unfortunately, it appears that it is.
Here’s the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
A future of numbskulls
Posted in Education, can you spell imbecile on March 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy Birthday Flannery
Posted in Flannery O\'Connor on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Flannery O’Connor’s birthday and it just wouldn’t be right to allow it to pass without acknowledgment. Flannery is the queen of American writers.
She once said, “Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that [...]
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Posted in opera, singing like there's no tomorrow on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of our sons (Bray) is in the Young Artists program at the Seattle Opera and will be singing in the performance of Benjamin Britten’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for a couple of weeks (six performances at the Meydenbauer Theater), starting March 27.
Click here for a preview from the director Peter [...]
Paris and love
Posted in love, the movin pitchers on March 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Larry Lawlace mentioned this movie in a comment and it reminded me of how much I enjoyed it. It’s a collection of 18 short films directed by 18 different directors. The stories are based upon various locations in Paris. It’s been a while since I saw it and I can’t remember exactly which of the [...]
St. Patrick
Posted in St. Patrick on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We commemorate the life and work of Sucat (aka Patrick of Ireland). The life of Patrick (like so much else in the early centuries of the Church) is surrounded by mystery and legend. He was probably born in Dumbarton in England in the latter part of the 4th century, around 375-390 [...]
Harvard beats Yale 29-29
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
yeah, I do want to see this.
did you catch it? Tommy Lee Jones started on the offensive line for the ‘68 Harvard team . . . and roomed with Al Gore.
I gotta see this.
I believe in me
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories of who they are. They say, ‘I’m everything. I’m nothing. I believe in myself,’ “
Barry Kosmin, co-author of the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS).
Kosmin goes on to say that “Today, religion has become more like a fashion statement, not a deep [...]
Fasting for the world
Posted in fasting, lent on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you [...]
Happy birthday Mickey
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is the birthday of the amazing Michelangelo. His first major work of art was the Pietà, a marble statue of Mary holding the dead Jesus in her arms. Supposedly, after the statue had been put on display, he went to see it and heard a crowd of people praising its beauty. When someone [...]
The Christian imagination
Posted in Bucer Institute, imagination on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Each semester at the Bucer Institute we have a course we call “The Church and Culture” which is basically a catch-all for any topic we’d like to talk about. Our “Church and Culture” class for this semester was held this past Saturday on the topic of “The Christian Imagination” and it was outstanding. (Check out [...]
First Sunday in Lent
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is the first Sunday during Lent. We make this distinction because Sundays are not included in the season of Lent. They are never to be observed as fast days. Sunday, being the day of the resurrection, is always to be a day of feasting and celebration. Thus, Lent is never to be observed as [...]
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