The Drive-By Truckers released their fourth studio album in June, 2003—but it seems more fitting to take Memorial Day as its tenth anniversary. It is, after all, the modern successor to the Decoration Day from which the album and title track draw their names. The songs, frontman Patterson Hood . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS FINALLY HERE (Link fixed, thanks Sara) . . . . Continue Reading »
On this Memorial Day it’s worth returning to David Mills’ thoughts on the difficulty and necessity of feeling proper gratitude for the sacrifices made by others: I know that from their sacrifices and losses I and those I love gained much (and much we take for granted), but I find it . . . . Continue Reading »
A cheering story: The Atheist Orthodoxy That Drove Me to Faith . “Faith is something my generation is meant to be casting aside, not taking up,” writes Megan Hodder, writing in the English weekly The Catholic Herald . I was raised without any religion and was eight . . . . Continue Reading »
While drinking my third cup of coffee, and reading all this talk of heroin and Charlie Parker, I got to thinking of James Baldwin’s beautiful short story “Sonny’s Blues” (1958). Around the same time that certain Beats were extolling the subconscious primitive impulses of . . . . Continue Reading »
Mistakenly thinking the great Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen had written a book on Catholicism and wanting to give it as an example of Protestant apologetics in yesterday’s item , I googled the subject and found that he didn’t, but he did say this in his book Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the comments to Kate’s heroin post below, Peter says that heroin was a drug of productivity for Charlie Parker. Well, to rule that out, or, to say it is the truth, would require one to be able to look pretty far into Parker’s soul, and most particularly, into his musical genius. One . . . . Continue Reading »
A reader of the “Catholic Sense” column I write for the Pittsburgh Catholic and a few other diocesan newspapers writes: I believe we Catholics could do much better at defending our faith. Would you recommend books on Basic Christian apologetics (CS Lewis type of apologetics) and . . . . Continue Reading »
While everyone is quite rightly outraged by the abuses of the IRS in singling out conservative group for audits, intrusive inquiries, and endless delays on approval of their tax-exempt status, it has occurred to me that there is one simple solution to the problem that would not require nearly as . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding to a recent piece by Anne Hendershott on the decision of Cardinal Sean O’Malley not to attend the commencement at Boston College because Irish prime minister (and abortion-rights advocate) Enda Kenny was selected for an honorary degree and address to the graduates, a letter-writer . . . . Continue Reading »
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