Barbara Elliot, Damsels in Distress: a Cultural Anti-Depressant
Peter Lawler, Nature, Grace, and The Last Days of Disco
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Allan Wall's Latest
Memo From Middle America | The Richwine Ruckus—What Do We Know About Mexican Intelligence Anyway?
John Derbyshire Asks: Do We Need More Smart Foreigners?
Something from Mark in Mexico: "The Last Word On Mexico" --A Dangerously Insightful Essay On Mexican History
From Under The Rubble: Is The Rule Of Law Immoral (Part II)? More Bishops Weigh In
You can find some commentary on the Richwine controversy at Conservative Heritage Times or AmCon. I don't have the time to dig them up at the moment.
John Derbyshire Asks: Do We Need More Smart Foreigners?
Something from Mark in Mexico: "The Last Word On Mexico" --A Dangerously Insightful Essay On Mexican History
From Under The Rubble: Is The Rule Of Law Immoral (Part II)? More Bishops Weigh In
You can find some commentary on the Richwine controversy at Conservative Heritage Times or AmCon. I don't have the time to dig them up at the moment.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Jack Yee's Training Tips
His story was featured in Free at 50 - a fit 50-year-old Asian-American male, his is an inspirational story. Here is his guest post at MDA: Mental Toughness Training in the Primal World.
Chris Hedges's Call to Action
Chris Hedges: Rise up or Die
There was another video featuring some speaker against plutocracy but I can't find the link at the moment...
There was another video featuring some speaker against plutocracy but I can't find the link at the moment...
Patrick Deneen Reviews E.J. Dionne's Book
And criticizes left communitarianism:
Community or Leviathan?
Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent, E.J. Dionne, Bloomsbury USA, 336 pages
Community or Leviathan?
Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent, E.J. Dionne, Bloomsbury USA, 336 pages
Gokhale Method Institute Has a Blog Now
Here. My Quest for a "Just Right" Chair
Tried some sitting on my knees (calves) on Sunday; hadn't done that for a while, I should do it more often but I have few opportunities. to do so. In Japanese dojos one is not supposed to sit with the legs very wide apart, only enough for a man to be comfortable. But are there other cultures in which men sit with their legs far apart? Seiza is obviously more comfortable than kneeling ("Christian" style) on a hard surface.
seiza sitting
The meaning and value of sitting in seiza
Seiza flexibility exercises
Tried some sitting on my knees (calves) on Sunday; hadn't done that for a while, I should do it more often but I have few opportunities. to do so. In Japanese dojos one is not supposed to sit with the legs very wide apart, only enough for a man to be comfortable. But are there other cultures in which men sit with their legs far apart? Seiza is obviously more comfortable than kneeling ("Christian" style) on a hard surface.
seiza sitting
The meaning and value of sitting in seiza
Seiza flexibility exercises
Monday, May 20, 2013
Bill Kauffman on Copperhead
An interview by Gerald Russello (via FPR) - Copperheads, Community, and Those Who Have Lost
Ron Maxwell:
2nd South Carolina String Band
Ron Maxwell:
2nd South Carolina String Band
"Don't Say That. It's Not Nice."
Dr. Esolen:
Word of the Day: stupid
It’s hard not to like our only word that rhymes with Cupid, and actually ought to do so, so foolish are we when the bold boy shoots us with the arrows.
The brilliant and urbane and wicked Emperor Frederick II, ruling from his palaces in Sicily and Cosenza, was called, or had himself called Stupor Mundi. He didn’t mean, Stupidity of the World. He meant that his glory would strike the beholder dumb with wonder. It would, literally, stupefy the beholder; the stupor then, is active and passive in sense at once, referring to the world’s reaction and to Frederick’s causing it. Dante admired Frederick and put him in Hell with the materialist heretics. He admired a second cousin of Frederick a lot more – the man who really ought to have been called the Wonder of the World, then and still now: Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Over the course of the centuries, the word stupor lost its sense of marvel, and, retaining its sense of speechlessness, slud over to kinda mean being reely dum. That sense, though, always was lurking in the wings, waiting to take over. The Latin suffix –idus almost always refers to something at least faintly unpleasant or feeble or ugly. The pejorative nuances survive in English: putrid, pallid, horrid, flaccid, lurid, viscid, acid, acrid, stolid, rabid, torrid, humid, tumid, vapid, timid, rancid, fetid, torpid. Some are neutral: solid. A few are words of praise: lucid, valid.
When I was young, our English textbooks advised us to pronounce the vowel in stupid as a diphthong, just as in Cupid: styoopid. But in northeastern Pennsylvania, that diphthong in such words has all but disappeared if it follows any consonant other than c, f, m, p. So we said stoopid; and the university in North Carolina is Dook, and the lies paraded on television are called the noos, and you listen to toons at the dance hall. It may have been stoopid, but so it was.
Preserving Liberty
Inescapable liberalism? Rescuing liberty from individualism and the State by Patrick Deneen
We have to attend to our States because of how sovereignty is currently understood and claimed, but even some of them are too big.
Defenders of a true human liberty need at once to "get bigger" and "get smaller." Rather than embrace the false universalism of "globalism," a true universality - under God - shows us the infinite narrowness of "globalization" and points us to the true nature of transcendence. And the only appropriate way to live in and through this transcendent is in the loci of the particular, those places which do not aspire to dim the light of the eternal City.
We need rather to attend to our States and localities, our communities and neighbourhoods, our families and our Church, making them viable alternatives and counterpoints to the monopolization of individual and State in our time, and thus to relearn the ancient virtue of self-government, and true liberty itself.
We have to attend to our States because of how sovereignty is currently understood and claimed, but even some of them are too big.
Pentecost: Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Pope Francis' Homily at Pentecost Mass
Pope at Pentecost: Newness, harmony and mission
Pope Francis: 'Be Open to the Newness of the Holy Spirit'
Pope's Pentecost Mass: The Holy Spirit drives our mission, promotes unity in the Church
Pentecost Vigil with the Lay Ecclesial Movements
Pope Francis to Catholic Lay Movements: Get out of your comfort zone
Neocatechumenal Way Initiators Meet with Pope Francis
Pontiff Calls Movements and Communities Part of the Riches of the Church
On the Catholic Charismatic Renewal:
CWR: The Charismatic Renewal and the Catholic Church (via Insight Scoop)
Pope to Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Tell Them I Love Them Very Much
Archbishop Rino Fisichella Relays Pontiffs Message to Participants at Rimini Meeting
Pope at Pentecost: Newness, harmony and mission
Pope Francis: 'Be Open to the Newness of the Holy Spirit'
Pope's Pentecost Mass: The Holy Spirit drives our mission, promotes unity in the Church
Pentecost Vigil with the Lay Ecclesial Movements
Pope Francis to Catholic Lay Movements: Get out of your comfort zone
Neocatechumenal Way Initiators Meet with Pope Francis
Pontiff Calls Movements and Communities Part of the Riches of the Church
On the Catholic Charismatic Renewal:
CWR: The Charismatic Renewal and the Catholic Church (via Insight Scoop)
Pope to Catholic Charismatic Renewal: Tell Them I Love Them Very Much
Archbishop Rino Fisichella Relays Pontiffs Message to Participants at Rimini Meeting
Jesuits on the Rise
Vatican Insider: Jesuit superior, Nicolas, appointed head of religious orders
The “black pope” has been placed in charge of the International Union of Superiors General for the next three years
GIACOMO GALEAZZI
The “black pope” has been placed in charge of the International Union of Superiors General for the next three years
GIACOMO GALEAZZI
Chiesa: On the Case of Shanghai, a Letter from Cardinal Zen
The bishop emeritus of Hong Kong corrects and clarifies some passages of the last article from www.chiesa on China. The difficult relationship between official and underground bishops. The disputes in the Vatican curia. The unknowns of the new pontificate
The bishop emeritus of Hong Kong corrects and clarifies some passages of the last article from www.chiesa on China. The difficult relationship between official and underground bishops. The disputes in the Vatican curia. The unknowns of the new pontificate
What Is the Place of the Monastery?
The Distributist Review: The Gospel of Hospitality by Dale Ahlquist (who visits Clear Creek and Casa Juan Diego)
This may be historically accurate for the spread of growth of monasticism in Western Europe, but if the monastery is to the center, has something gone wrong with the local Church (and the cathedral community)? Monasteries should be places of evangelical witness, but for it to replace the local Church (and its communities) as the center of a Christian community seems less than ideal.
In medieval times, the monasteries were the center of culture. Wherever a monastery was built a town grew up around it. The monks provided the focus of faith, which always has practical implications that are seen in art, craftsmanship, education, and simple economic stability. Interestingly enough, Catholic families have already started to settle around the edge of Clear Creek Monastery. This is where they want to raise their children. It is the medieval model working perfectly, a place done right, right from the start. Chesterton predicted: “Whenever monks come back, marriages will come back.”
The monastery must be the center, not a satellite, in a thriving Catholic community. The Houston Catholic Worker house also does things right, but in a place where everything has gone wrong, because it went wrong almost from the start. The Zwicks are dealing with one soul at a time in a place where people are cold statistics. Their hospitality cannot solve the large problems that plague huge cities, but it can treat each of the problems that show up at their door each day. Their source of strength and love is their faith. Each house has a chapel. Jesus is always present, both in the souls of the poor and in the Blessed Sacrament.
This may be historically accurate for the spread of growth of monasticism in Western Europe, but if the monastery is to the center, has something gone wrong with the local Church (and the cathedral community)? Monasteries should be places of evangelical witness, but for it to replace the local Church (and its communities) as the center of a Christian community seems less than ideal.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
"Keep Dreaming, Sister"
Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission - video
I'm no expert on the Spanish Civil War - did the Communists have a strong presence in Catalonia? She speaks like a Protestant, sola scriptura, when discussing the papacy and holy orders.
I'm no expert on the Spanish Civil War - did the Communists have a strong presence in Catalonia? She speaks like a Protestant, sola scriptura, when discussing the papacy and holy orders.
Flipping between channels, ACM Tim McGraw special on CBS and the Billboard Music Awards on ABC. Haven't missed much by ignoring mainstream Uhmerican music. Lady A exemplifies the pop and rock transformation of mainstream country. M. Louise Ciccone showed up to receive an award, dressed as her usual scandalous self. Taylor Swift wears too much make-up, and on the Tim McGraw show she was sexing it up unnecessarily for "Highway Don't Care." She's overcompensating or something...
"Uhmerica, F- Yeah!"
But a nice appearance by the main singer of A-Ha at the end of "Feel This Moment."
"Uhmerica, F- Yeah!"
But a nice appearance by the main singer of A-Ha at the end of "Feel This Moment."
Syriac Christianity in China
From the Oxus to China (via Eastern Christian Books)
I attended the Chaldean-rite Liturgy celebrated at St. Albert's Priory yesterday - the singing was beautiful. I don't know how much of it was in Aramaic (all? part?), but its "Easterness" didn't bother me. I would like to learn more about the Western and Eastern Syriac rites.
I attended the Chaldean-rite Liturgy celebrated at St. Albert's Priory yesterday - the singing was beautiful. I don't know how much of it was in Aramaic (all? part?), but its "Easterness" didn't bother me. I would like to learn more about the Western and Eastern Syriac rites.
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