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ER HOST IS Not alone in not-understanding the Calendar Schism. I agree with Fr Victor (memory eternal!) who said to me “such a division should never have happened”. But I don’t know what end or solution he intended by that statement: I think he only lamented thereby the sorrowful division in Christ’s body. For most [...]

NCREASINGLY I find myself sensitive to cultural ideas about the South, about Rural folks (north or south) and about Urban and Yankee assumptions of superiority – most often made by folks who have only seen The Dukes of Hazzard (and not even the TV show) or some Nascar shows in the comfort of their frozen [...]

NDREW Sullivan took me down an unexpected course of cultural criticism today. In his first post, The Tao Of Guitar Hero he points us to an article by Rob Horning: For the cost of an Xbox and the Guitar Hero game, you can get yourself a pretty good guitar. I can’t help but feel that [...]

CONFESS I’ve been debating the whole Tibet thing. We’re supposed to light a candle in the window for Tibet and ignore the Olympics. Not having a TV, that last bit is easy for me. But Candles? I mean, face it: prior to the invasion of Tibet by China and the overthrow of the Absolute Divine-Right [...]

EDNESDAY We were discussing the use of images of Jesus – and the races depicted thereon. I realised two things: 1) the Renaissance cultures that produced the all-white Jesus never really expected to run into any other culture. 2) Traditional icons of Jesus (not the cartoony ones done in the last 40 years or so [...]