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From the last post to this--from the sublime to the ridiculous. But, when inspired... I've once or twice been asked why I say that envir...

Friends who read this blog know that personal reasons have kept me out of the blogosphere for a little while. I'm slowly trying to get t...

My generous husband bought me a new Gospel music CD the other evening at Cracker Barrel--a bunch of hymns hand-picked by Bill Gaither. It co...

Another wonderful collect, apparently (according to Blunt) an original composition by John Cosin , Bishop of Durham at the Restoration. O GO...

Just thought of this poem today and wanted to post it. (This does not mean that I am ill. The line "I tune my instrument at the door...

I suppose it's a bit boring to talk about double standards, but this happens to be on my mind. Why is it, do you suppose, that one virtu...

It has been exactly twenty years since I was in graduate school getting a degree in English Literature. The state of the discipline was depr...

In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth: And remember--they tried to get him to take out that historic line, but ...

A book I sometimes talk about but am hesitant to recommend is Richard Adams's The Girl in the Swing. I hesitate to recommend it because...

My readers know that one purpose of this blog is making unexpected parallels between Anglican liturgy and Baptist or other low-Protestant so...

This post is for my fellow conservatives. It's something for you to know, and possibly to say (though without any hope of convincing) wh...

To commentators: I've noticed recently that a number of you have been reposting your comments by breaking them up into two or more parts...

Here is an exceedingly interesting talk by Esteemed Husband, given in New Orleans last Sunday, on undesigned coincidences in the Gospels. T...

Recently my attention has been drawn to the controversy over whether or not God is in time. Always having been a convinced Boethian on this ...

If you hang around this site, you'll soon learn that it's an odd and varied place. Probability theory and gospel music, lions and ti...

It's been brought to my attention that an atheist styling himself some sort of probability expert has been going about implying that Ti...

There is a really useful round-up at View from the Right on mainstream "conservatives" and the homosexualization of the military ...

Wesley J. Smith has been doing a great job of coming up with global warmist predictions that haven't come true. The other day he put a l...

Here's a hymn I haven't sung in a long time: "Give of Your Best to the Master" The first verse refers to Jesus as "da...

They all were looking for a king To slay their foes and lift them high. Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry. O Son of...