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This blog used to be hosted at Patheos, but I created my own site because I wanted to get away from the increased commercialism. I also wanted to return to the more personal and relational style that I first had when blogging. As the readership increased at Patheos we lost the personal contact. I had to close the comments box because there were simply too many comments to moderate and extremists were using my combox as their soapbox.
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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Democracy and Dictatorship
Over on Facebook yesterday I posted an observation that in times of insecurity, social unrest, economic uncertainty and moral decline, people turn to nationalism to give a sense of security, belonging and confidence. Nationalism [...]
It’s All the Fault of Vatican 2 !!
...or maybe not. In Mass Exodus -Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II English sociologist Stephen Bullivant takes an objective and fact based look at the decline of Catholic commitment over the last [...]
Pope Francis Backs Gay Weddings?
A headline in one of the tabloids trumpeted that Pope Francis Blessed Gay Weddings. Typical. They grab an inch of rumor and take a mile of headline. The rumor is the result of a [...]
Abortion and Catholic Joe Biden
Yes, I know you think President Trump is obnoxious, immoral, creepy, vulgar and an embarrassment. Worse than that, you fear he is corrupt, venal, conniving and crooked. You don't like his playboy history, his [...]
Help Me Stand on My Head
Can you help me stand on my head? The name of the blog comes from G.K.Chesterton's observation that "Most often a scene is more clearly seen when it is seen upside down." That quip [...]
Remembering Tom Howard
Tom Howard's Chance or the Dance was one of the influences that affirmed the decision I had already taken to leave Evangelicalism and head down the road first to Canterbury then to Rome. I read the [...]
