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A happy July 4 to all my readers. America needs God's blessing now, more than ever, with those at her helm who are out to destroy her. H...

Continuing to blog a bit here about the concert in Shipshewana from (now) two weeks ago. (The beatings will continue until morale improves. ...

A week and a day ago we were privileged to go to Shipshewana, IN, to a concert by Ernie Haase/Signature Sound and the Collingsworth Family. ...

One of the greatest collects in the Prayer Book or in the English language: O God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom not...

(This is a post that I thought I already wrote. I was surprised upon googling my own blog to find that it didn't already exist. Apparent...

Please see my Father's Day post if you have not already seen it over at What's Wrong With the World. (Aside: It really seems like i...

Okay, this is for fun. Periodically one discusses with anti-capitalists the problems of progress and the way that change puts people out of ...

My assiduous readers will remember this detailed post of mine in which I discussed the repeated claim that if you like your current insuran...

I am not Catholic, but a recent conversation elsewhere has brought back to my mind the fact that the USCCB has implied that a means for pres...

O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; Mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal...

Update: Bummer. Big-time bummer. Alerted by reader Doug Downing, I checked today and discovered that the music has all disappeared. The site...

An old friend, C. B., from whom I haven't heard in a while, used to tell me that the Catholic view is that it's an obligation to get...

Wow. Well, in keeping with my use of this personal blog as a sort of safety valve for all manner of things I can't sound off about elsew...

I am grateful for the coverage at Auster's View from the Right of issues related to Israel, most recently, of course, the pro-Hamas flot...

The latest issue of the on-line journal The Christendom Review is here . Editor Bill Luse has an introduction on the subject of gratitude w...

Courtesy of Eldest Daughter, a song and a video for Memorial Day, here . Embedding is disabled; it's "What Did He Die For," by...

This was part of one of the readings for Trinity Sunday yesterday: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were f...

Eldest Daughter showed me this video the other day, and I was much intrigued by the tune. I hadn't known that tune to "Praise My So...

Today is Ascension Sunday, meaning it is the Sunday in the octave of the feast of the Ascension. The Ascension is one of my favorite liturgi...

I put up a post about not being cranky in our conservatism in the course of which I included a Gaither Homecoming version of "Amazing ...