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I was studying Colossians with Middle Daughter the other day. Got to the part where Paul warns his readers about people who will beguile the...

There is so much good Easter music. If I may venture to give advice, I would suggest that you sing to celebrate Easter. Even if you can'...

A joyous feast of Our Lord's glorious resurrection to my readers. I've been thinking a lot about the resurrection lately, what with ...

A couple of weeks ago Youngest Daughter said, "I want you to sing to me." So I sat down with her and broke out the standard repert...

This morning we sang "O Sacred Head." I always have a bit of trouble wrapping my mind around verse 2: Thy beauty, long-desirèd, h...

I meant to write something here about hymns and songs but don't have time. But I have a new post on What's Wrong with the World tha...

I'll be posting briefly about this on What's Wrong with the World in the next couple of days, too. Meanwhile, I'm very pleased t...

Attention all you readers with some mathematical flair or knowledge. Or even without. (I don't have a whole lot of that myself and enjoy...

Okay, now, just for fun. I was...rather young in 1971 when the Three Dog Night's rendition of "Joy to the World" topped the ch...

I had heard only faint rumblings about a professor denied tenure at DePaul last summer/fall. I paid little attention and hadn't wittingl...

(Gee, I almost found myself saying "issues" in the post header. Don't you hate the new use of "issue" to mean "...

For those of you who don't know of him, Mark Pickup is a Canadian blogger with multiple sclerosis who has been writing about life issue...

My hordes of readers will notice the blog's new look. And just in case anyone doesn't get the allusion, it is to Zippy Catholic'...

Luke 18:1 says, "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." Thus begins the p...

Nothing. Whatsoever. Here is an Australian professor who is such an environmentalist wacko freak (see, it's my personal blog, so I don...

And the rockets just go on falling on Sderot. The kassams fall there day after day. Today it looks like an eight-year-old boy may have lost...

...that make me unsure that I should be called a "traditionalist conservative." Just when I think I'm the traddest of the trad...

We haven't had a hymn around here for a while. I happened to pick this one to play as part of my organ prelude on Sunday morning --...

...in the last couple of days, with content--specifically, a hymn post. Instead I have become embroiled in a probably futile on-line shoppin...