Extra Thoughts

My title is taken from the prayer of consecration in the Book of Common Prayer. The context goes like this: And here we offer and present...

This is a quotation that I thought I had posted on this blog years ago. Since I apparently didn't (according to Google), and since I jus...

If you search this site for posts on the Ascension, you will find quite a few. It's a holy day that I rarely miss at least mentioning, e...

This talk of "meeting" is, no doubt, anthropomorphic; as if God and I could be face to face, like two fellow-creatures, when in r...

In the course of my discussion with Ed Feser, below, and also in the course of re-reading this old thread from What's Wrong With the Wor...

As my vast readership already knows, I've been researching the issue of God and time lately, coming down squarely on the Boethian side a...

This year, my esteemed blog colleague Sage McLaughlin has written the Easter post at What's Wrong With the World. Having written a fai...

I have a long Good Friday post up at What's Wrong With the World. If you want to read a post of mine for Good Friday, please do go and r...

After a discussion on Facebook (c'mon, guys, put these great comments  here  and give my poor little personal blog a bit o' traffic)...

This post is a spin-off, to use an old TV metaphor, of a paper I have been working on, hopefully to appear in The Christendom Review . I fou...

I have become convinced of late that there is one major driver for social media and many other uses of the Internet: Loneliness. That isn...

As regular readers know, I occasionally find that, when my own wellsprings of inspiration are at low ebb, the sci-fi writer and blogger John...