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A blessed Holy Week to Extra Thoughts readers. Assist us mercifully with thy help, O Lord God of our salvation; that we may enter with joy u...

I am a Protestant, as I have repeatedly said. So in a sense I haven't got much of a right to get involved in the present kerfuffle conce...

Lawrence Auster has had some good posts recently on the contraception mandate. Like any sensible person, Auster is in something like shock ...

Here is a passage from the Brothers of Gwynedd quartet, by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter): In the quiet courts of the Cistercian house of Dor...

There are at least three different ways to approach Lent. More, really, if one considers different degrees of each, but this will do for sta...

As a fair number of people know who don't happen to live in my own town (because people who live in my own town never know what I'm ...

Okay, this is pretty wild and creepy, and I have little more profound than that to say about it. Public schools now have official Lunch Ins...

Herewith , an example of why I read View from the Right: Partner means, or used to mean, two people engaged together in some shared enterpri...

In the course of studying messianic prophecy, I recently came upon 2 Samuel 7:14. It's alluded to as a prophecy of Jesus Christ in Hebre...

A reader has attempted to post an entirely off-topic question in a recent post. The question concerns probability theory and the resurrectio...

This is a follow-up to the previous post. Subsequent to writing that post, I did more research on the British anti-semite whose book was lau...

I very recently learned about a little brouhaha that's been going on for a while when someone sent me a link to this article . It's ...

I owe a certain debt to Cyrus the Persian. I made his acquaintance fairly early, for he lived between the pages of a children's magazine...

I don't suppose I really screamed. What had happened was that I had fallen asleep at last and drifted into nightmare. I was imprisoned i...

"Not for me the Hound of Heaven, but the never-ceasing silent appeal of Tabernacle, and the sense of starving hunger." J.R.R. To...

"Men choose one side or the other, making the best choice that they can with the knowledge that they have. Yet they know little and the...

I've been neglecting this blog recently and realize it. Call it laziness. Call it Christmas rush. Call it busyness home schooling. Proba...

A couple of years ago I put up a post about this hymn and its new incarnation by blind singer Ken Medema. At that time it was not available...

It is not the fact that young lovers have no desire to swear on the Book. They are always at it. It is not the fact that every young love is...

While the east coast is having snow, we're having cold, crisp autumn. Here was my post two years ago on autumn, travel, and coming hom...