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• Episcopal Presiding Bishops Statement on Ugandan Situation

  
  Bearcastle Blog — Authority: 123
  We recently mentioned the deplorable attempt by factions in Uganda to pass a bill that would impose unconscionable punishment on gay and lesbian people. We also mentioned, all too briefly, how the fires of homophobia are being fanned by American anti-gay forces: some radical evangelical clergy and related elements of ...
  3 days ago

• Commonplace book #25

  
  Executive Pagan — Authority: 116
  We’ve been scribbled in the margins / Of a story that is patently absurd. - Nick Cave
  4 days ago

• On Some Words from the Abbot of Clairvaux

  
  Flos Carmeli — Authority: 113
  From a Sermon by St. Bernard, Abbot Because this coming [the second of three] lies between the other two, it is like a road on which we travel from the first coming to the last. In the first Christ was our redemption; in the last, he will appear as our life; in this middle coming he is our rest and consolation. . . ...
  6 days ago

• Moyers on Obamas Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Bearcastle Blog — Authority: 123
  Sometimes I say Im a Bill Moyers groupie, but Im thinking that might not be quite accurate. "Groupie" suggests that I idolize Mr. Moyers and laud whatever comes out of his mouth because I am enamored of his celebrity. However, thats not really the case. I listen to Bill Moyers and hear a great deal of wisdom worth ...
  6 days ago

• Blurb-o-Rama: Claudia Rankine on Sky Lounge

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 119
  Blurb-o-Rama : blurbs that make me laugh, or cry, or something… Claudia Rankine blurbs Mark Bibbins’ book of poems Sky Lounge : Imagine Vladimir and Estragon have slipped into our century and become so thoroughly distracted by piped music that Godot is the one who waits. This is the world Mark Bibbins has ...
  1 week ago

• Good Advice from William James

  
  Flos Carmeli — Authority: 113
  "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand ...
  1 week ago

• A Blurb by David Kirby

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 119
  via a friend on a mailing list comes this blub by David Kirby for The Ecstacy of Capitulation , a book of poems (unknown to me) by Daniel Borzutzky : “After I first read Daniel Borzutzky’s poems in magazines, I became a hellhound on his trail, pursuing him over the oceans (he was in Turkey at the time) until ...
  3 weeks ago

• Making Idols

  
  Flos Carmeli — Authority: 113
  Ive found myself reading a lot of Timothy Keller recently, and if the books I have read so far are any indication, it is entirely like that I shall be reading more in the near future. from Counterfeit Gods Timothy Keller Why did we completely lose sight of what is right? The Bibles answer is that the human heart ...
  3 weeks ago

• Commonplace book #24

  
  Executive Pagan — Authority: 116
  Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain at the gate; “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods…” - Thomas Macaulay, from Lays of Ancient Rome
  4 weeks ago

• On the Wealth of Poetry (David Kirby)

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 119
  As seen on Ed Byrne’s Assemblage : "Look, a poem either sends you a bill or writes you a check. You can use up too much of your intellectual and emotional capital, not to mention your good will, and come away feeling had. Or you can pat your billfold and say, ‘Hey, this baby just got a little fatter.’ "When ...
  4 weeks ago

• Novel Philosophy

  
  CM, Children and Lots of Grace — Authority: 119
  What we do not perceive is, that philosophy as found written in books of philosophy to-day has become more or less academic; she no longer "cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of men." She has become an affair of the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Calling

  
  CM, Children and Lots of Grace — Authority: 119
  "If much hangs and turns upon the choice of the work we are to do and the field where we are to do it, it must not be forgotten how much also depends on the time when it is undertaken, the way in which it is performed, and the associates in the labour. In all these matters the true workman will wait for the Masters ...
  5 weeks ago

• on Art and the Sun-Like Eyes of Man (Heinrich Blücher)

  
  Cosmopoetica — Authority: 119
  [ photo by Aube Insanite ] “The eyes of man are sun-like, because art comes and makes them more sun-like. Art is so mighty because it changes our perception of the world. It is almost as mighty as philosophy and not nearly so harmful, because it does not ask anything of us. Art makes no request except one – to ...
  5 weeks ago

• White bird

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 548
  Not particularly original or astute of me, but every time I see a white bird soaring in the air, I think of Margaret Widdemers poignant poem. I pause to watch, and to grant my own moment of silence to the heartaches of life, the sometimes bitter journey, and the joy at the end: Pain has been, and grief enough, and ...
  6 weeks ago

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