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I forgot to link to this on Friday, but the Irish Times published my letter on the Ryan report.
Your Correspondent, Knows all the cool lingo, stuff like “fleece it out,” “going mach 5,” “dinkin’ flicka.

Tim Keller, in a sermon on Luke 15, quotes C.S. Lewis from the Weight of Glory on how we remember the beautiful things past in our lives:
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came [...]

We often besmirch our own discipline of theology by referencing that anarchic question, “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” It’s our own code language for saying, “Sometimes theology loses track of itself”. And the wider world is happy to join in this chorus if we get too abstract.
Dorothy Sayers [...]

The Decemberists are one of the greatest bands around. Even if they do sound like The White Stripes went to a Renaissance Faire.

Your Correspondent, Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow

There is a common argument against the existence of God from the misuse of Darwin that says that since an amateur gardener can marshall the kind of variations that produce speciation to muster a greener kind of apple, God must not exist.
Some people would look at the exact same set of observations and [...]

Ro Hession, better known as Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, is one of the finest songwriters worked in Ireland. His second album, the Herring and the Brine was recently listed as one of the best fifty albums of the last ten years by Cluas.
I work up this morning to the great news that the excellently named [...]

My cosmologist friend and I worked it on the back of an envelope after the movie. He used to work in CERN. A gram of antimatter is about enough energy to boil 10,000,000 kettles. Not blow up Rome.
Speaking of blowing up Rome, this is movie is based on a set of ideas so idiotic, [...]

For fundamentalists, Zizek says:
religious statements and scientific statements belong to the same modality of positive knowledge… the occurence of the term “science” in the very name of some of the fundamentalist sects (Christian Science, Scientology) is not an obscene joke, but signals this reduction of belief to positive knowledge.
And as Terry Eagleton points out, [...]

Seeing as people seem very interested in the connections (or lack thereof) between Mithraism and Christianity, I thought I’d write some more, based on Bentley Hart’s reading of the religious terrain of the declining Roman empire. There is a real dearth of actual raw material about this Persian cult that became successful in Rome in [...]

I go to Ireland’s pontifical university. Beautiful place. Come visit some day; I’ll take you on a tour.
On the way to the library yesterday I walked past two old priests. One says to the other, “Bad week for the church”. “Aye”, says the second, with a nod.
They still don’t get it. Every week [...]