Some hash found buried in the freezer

Podcast recommendation: The “NACOcast” podcast with Christopher Millard (RSS) is worth subscribing to. It’s somewhat long, but very insightful. I had never made the connection between Bernstein’s West Side Story and the Emporer concerto.
The Migne edition of the church fathers is a renowned older version of the church fathers in the languages. Because of age, [...]

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Like the last few bars of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll

T. S. Eliot:
“Esthetic sensibility must be extended into spiritual perception, and spiritual perception must be extended into esthetic sensibility and disciplined taste before we are qualified to pass judgment upon decadence or diabolism or nihilism in art.”
“There is an aspect in which we can see a religion as the whole way of life of a [...]

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From the Martin dinner table

As we were eating our Sunday dinner, my three-year-old asked me, “Does chicken come from turkeys?”

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The Public Reading of Scripture in the Early Church

In 1 Timothy 4:13, Paul explicitly tells Timothy to read the Scripture publically in the early church:
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
We see elsewhere that he did not want the reading limited to the Scriptures of the Old Testament, but those connected with the dispensation [...]

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A contrast worth considering

Fundamentalists should first skim this (exemplary, I think, of the state of things for “the movement”), and then, as a contrast (and as a way of “cooling off”), spend some time reading and thinking about the salient points in this.

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