Earlier I mentioned seeing the all-male a cappella group Chanticleer perform at the Met. The most interesting piece they performed was John Tavener’s “Village Wedding.” Tavener describes the piece as follows: Village Wedding is a series of musical and verbal images, describing a . . . . Continue Reading »
An opinion piece at the Buffalo News today starts off : It appears that, in the incoming Obama administration, it will be hard to tell the difference between the people making energy policy and the people making environmental policy. With a lede like that, I was sure the article would . . . . Continue Reading »
When one reaches a certain age there is an inclination to reminisce about how much nicer, better, or easier things were forty or fifty years ago. For most of us our youth was a special time, not so much materially, more so in a spiritual sense. As children we are less spiritually inhibited, more . . . . Continue Reading »
Sally Thomas has a lovely performance of the Herefordshire Carol by an impressive English chorister. Below is Ralph Vaughn Williams’ setting as sung by the King’s College Choir. The carol is a meditation on how the Incarnation undoes the effects of the Fall, a fitting subject on which . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a story about love. It is also a story about community. And, for some, it will be perceived as a story about taking the reverence for life beyond reasonable limits.A child became profoundly disabled in a terrible mishap and now, having suffered a catastrophic brain injury, requires full-time . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s impossible to ignore all the signposts of the Christmas season—wherever you go the sights and sounds are unambiguously evocative of the holiday season. Still, sometimes as powerful as the familiar Christmas imagery is the impulse to secularize the holiday—to pull . . . . Continue Reading »
I have an extended piece in the Weekly Standard on the Montana judge declaring it a “fundamental right” do “die with dignity”—e.g. to poison oneself with prescribed drugs—which as I noted in an earlier SHS posting about this, may be the only time that an advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette and I decided to go on a date and, against our better judgment, went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. We expected some enviro-propaganda, but I must say it was even more extreme than I expected. I wrote about it over at the First Things blog:Earth pushes the mantra of . . . . Continue Reading »
My wife and I decided to go see The Day the Earth Stood Still , which, based on reviews, we expected to be radically green. But it is much more than that. Earth pushes the mantra of deepest ecology: Humans are the literal enemy of Earth, which, the script strongly implies, is a living entity. At . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written several times about Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, who was once accused criminally of trying to hasten a patient’s death with drugs after he didn’t die when his respirator was removed prior to a planned organ procurement. Dr. Roozrokh had no business even being in the operating . . . . Continue Reading »
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