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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Sun, Storm and Solitude
Addicted as I am to alliteration, the title of Karl Keating's new book was an attraction, but more attractive was the prospect of reading about his hike along the Cammino di San Benedetto--one of [...]
Dreher and Martin: Two Prophets for Today
There is a silly notion that a prophet is someone, like Madame Sosostris-the famous clairvoyant, who has supernatural powers to foretell the future. This has come down to us, no doubt, from generations of [...]
The Lumbering Beast from the East
I will tell you a vision I once had. I hesitate to call it a vision because it makes me sound like some sort of Marian mystic. Probably better to call it a "mental [...]
The Price of Free Sex
There is a rush of books out at the moment decrying the decadence and disintegration of our modern Western culture. Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society is an objective look at the root causes and [...]
Mysterious Humans from Long Ago
I was fascinated to read this article about the study of fossilized footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park. A small woman—or perhaps an adolescent boy—walks quickly across a landscape where giant beasts [...]
Quarr Abbey and the Isle of Wight
I was a curate (parochial vicar) in the Church of England in the late 80s when an older priest introduced me to the Isle of Wight. The island is a beautiful, little known corner [...]
