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I have to say that the new Blogger behind-the-scenes look isn't just overly appealing, but I suppose I'll get used to it. More urgen...

There is an attitude I'm running into occasionally among men, even young men who have not had anything terrible done to them, and I thin...

"I am a burden to you. I should go away. Please, admit it. I am a burden to you." "I will not admit such a thing." ...

If you think America's criminal justice system is blind when the issue of race is involved (ahem) and when defense against attack is inv...

Herewith, Edmund Spenser's Happy Easter sonnet to Elizabeth, to whom he was to be married. Amoretti 68: Most glorious Lord of life, that...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; Mercifu...

We sang "O Sacred Head" on Palm Sunday in church, with all the verses. In this post several years ago I meditated a bit on this o...

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...