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Since I fretted here about the dearth of information on the investigation of the Fogel family massacre in Israel, I thought it only fair to...

Hah! Some of you may recall the "ancient manuscript" discovered and published here from the Worship! Iconium Ministerial Peace So...

Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our soul...

I regularly read (and link in the sidebar) an Israeli blog called Israel Matzav. The blogger, Carl in Jerusalem, is an Orthodox Jew who appa...

Bill Luse points out that March 18 was the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Terri Schiavo's lengthy murder by dehydration. He is ki...

The murders of the Fogel family in Israel do not exactly reflect glory on the U.S. A report from World Net Daily claims that two arrests ha...

Here's a good article on the horrible slaughter of most of an Israeli family, the Fogel family, by Palestinian Arabs. Best quotation (em...

Today's Gospel reading was the temptation of Jesus. I've often mused a bit about the temptation in which the Devil offers Jesus all ...

Here we go again. I hope I'm not the only one who gets sick of liberals (and paleoconservatives) who roll their eyes and tell the rest o...

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...