John West’s book, The Magicians Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside… Read More C.S. Lewis and Evolution
“Frequent Visits Without Engagement: Your audience is likely part of X’s “lurker” demographic—i.e., users who consume content but rarely interact. Studies suggest that 90% of social media users are lurkers, 9% engage occasionally, and only 1% are heavy contributors (often called the 90-9-1 rule). Your frequent visitors fall into this 90%, consuming your content without… Read More 90% Lurkers on Social Media
A Quick Way to Be Throttled: Regularly say and publish facts and opinions contrary to popular opinions. “Social media throttling refers to the practice where platforms limit the visibility of a user’s posts, making it less likely for their content to be seen by others. This can occur due to increased competition for attention, resulting… Read More A Quick Way to Be Throttled or Ostracized
“One of the primary reasons people put dogs in baby carriages is the strong emotional bond between humans and animals. Pet owners often view their dogs as part of the family, and treating them like human children is an extension of this affection. The use of baby carriages for dogs allows owners to include their… Read More Sad World. Dogs in Baby Carriages.
President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Democratic climate policies after scientists moved away from one of the most extreme global warming scenarios previously used in United Nations-backed climate modeling. “GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that… Read More Trump rips Democrats after UN climate committee drops extreme projections
David Suchet’s most beautiful recital below. The Seven Penitential Psalms are united by themes of repentance, confession, and pleas for mercy. They express sorrow for sin and a longing for reconciliation with God. As sinners trying to do penance for our sins it is a good thing to meditate on them daily. David Suchet profoundly… Read More The Seven Penitential Psalms
What does it mean and add up to? “There comes a point in a man’s life when the world starts spinning even if he hasn’t touched a drop — not from whiskey, but from years piling up heavier than they used to. Laughter gets slower, bones get louder, and everything hurts except the blues. “I… Read More Time Out: Ain’t Drunk, Just Old.
Unborn Child (the song in question) is the sixth studio album by American music duo Seals and Crofts, released on February 8, 1974 by Warner Bros. Records. It features two singles, “Unborn Child” and “The King of Nothing”, which reached number 66 and number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 respectively. The title track reached… Read More How a 4 Minute Minute Song Destroyed Seals and Crofts Career
🚨 “President Donald Trump has posted a video on how 20 CIA and FBI agents just dropped a political bomb on Barack Hussein ll Obama, confirming that he and former CIA Director Brennan orchestrated a political coup against a candidate and then a sitting president and doctored evidence. Allegedly shows how “Russiagate” was born.” See… Read More 20 CIA Agents Claim Obama and Former CIA Head Orchestrated Coup
2022. Even if it may have caused more problems than it solved, Vatican II for the future Pope was in no small part about reintegrating loose and undisciplined elements of immutable Catholic doctrine with Christological and Eucharistic teaching. George Weigel writes, “In the years immediately after the Council, Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI),… Read More Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on Reasons for Vatican II
It cannot be seriously doubted in our time that since the Second Vatican Council not a little of what has been called “Catholic ecumenism” has in fact gone off the Church’s traditional dogmatic rails. But for all that the principle cannot be doubted. It was doubtless the seemingly radical abruptness of the Church’s turnaround regarding… Read More Traditional Catholic Ecumenism
Mollie Hemingway, author of “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution,” explains how that push reshaped the conservative legal movement and helped elevate Justice Samuel Alito as a defining voice on the bench. From behind-the-scenes tensions to major dissents, this conversation uncovers why Alito’s influence is only growing.
Tucker v. Tucker. Rich Lowry recently criticized Tucker Carlson for being “disingenuous” in his discussions about Donald Trump, Israel, Antichrist, World War II, particularly for not objecting to claims made on his program that suggested the West should have allied with Hitler against Stalin. Lowry described Carlson’s acceptance of such ideas as a form of… Read More Rich Lowry: Tucker Carlson is “Disingenuous”.
Discovering Bach in my 7th decade, alas. Don’t foolishly wait as I did. He is a true intersection of all music and genuine ecumenism. Andras Schiff insists that Bach’s Christic divine intention cannot ever be schorn from his work. Schiff too learned some things late. He says for instance that he only became “crazy about… Read More Bach and the “Divine Connection Which Cannot be Betrayed.” Andras Schiff.
Hello Heartless Tin Man! Brainless Scarecrow here. 🛢️🛢️🛢️I want to ask your heartlessness about The Beatles song I Want to Hold Your Hand. In the interval(s) between the opening guitars and the vocals there seems to be another type of rhythmic sound. No? I hear, and have long heard, a different type of instrument or… Read More Time Out. Tin Man and The Beatles’ “Secret Sauce”.
Updated. Shooting at the President of the United States or his cabinet should imo be a capital offense. The crime should be carefully investigated, the perpetrator, when caught, should be charged, questioned thoroughly, offered a Big Mac, given a speedy trial, then, if found guilty, taken out to a courtyard, offered a comfortable hood, and… Read More Opinion
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“I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale,” Trump wrote. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.” +++ ~~~ Two years to go Political Philosophy: Senator John… Read More Trump Watching Hateful Kimmel.
Great fun composing with our grandniece Molly today.
Originally published on August 8. Israel today is showing that an horrific war begun will be horrifically won or lost, as with most wars in history. The lesson? Don’t even think of starting such a war unless you are prepared to finish it. For Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart or anyone else to feign moral indignation only shows… Read More Hamas and Iran. Get Real.
High Security Research Projects. The FBI is investigating the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists who had ties to sensitive government projects, following online speculation about potential connections among these cases. This investigation includes coordination with various federal agencies to determine if there are any links between the incidents. NBC News Scientific American… Read More FBI Investigating Disappearing Scientists
Updated 10/6. By JACOB SIVAK | Published: MARCH 10, 2022| Jerusalem Report | (JPOST) The renowned American author and masterful satirist Samuel Clemens, also known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an abolitionist, a supporter of women’s rights and a supporter of Jewish emancipation. His attitude toward Jews is evident in his earliest book, The Innocents Abroad… Read More Was Mark Twain’s depiction of Israel in the 1800s accurate?
“…as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs…”. Roman 11: 28 “This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: ‘If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of… Read More He lived, loved and walked there. He wept over Jerusalem. He was scourged, died and Rose again there.
The Communist Manifesto discusses the idea of abolishing the family, arguing that the traditional family structure supports capitalism and patriarchy, making individuals dependent and alienated. Marx and Engels suggest that the family, as it exists in bourgeois society, is a product of historical conditions and can change as society evolves. October 11, 2022 | Maria Keffler. GospelCoalition.com… Read More How to Respond If Your Child ‘Comes Out’
Updated. Candace Owens has reportedly hired a Jewish lawyer in the Macron case. We’ll see if the report holds. “The MAGA movement is experiencing internal conflicts, with factions like those led by Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing Donald Trump’s policies, particularly his handling of the Iran war. These divisions highlight growing tensions within… Read More The Crackpots
“When war broke out in September 1939, Pound began a letter-writing campaign to the politicians he had petitioned months earlier.[296] On 18 June 1940, after the fall of France, he wrote to Senator Burton K. Wheeler: “I have read a regulation that only those foreigners are to be admitted to the U.S. who are deemed… Read More Robert Frost and Ezra Pound
Return to the beginning. Notes: This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ third talk of the third radio series called ‘What Christians Believe’. This became Chapter 3 of Book 2, in the book called ‘Mere Christianity’. One need not accept Lewis’ notion of a “mere’ Christianity to appreciate the insights which are sketched here and… Read More The Shocking Alternative by C.S. Lewis.
Vijay Kumar Verma. Life…is a strange kind of journey. Not loud.Not always clear.But deeply, quietly… real. Some days,it wraps you in sunlight—like everything finally makes sense. And some days…it casts a shadow over your soul,and you’re left searching for piecesyou didn’t even know you lost. We walk…and walk…and somewhere along the way,we lose ourselves. Only… Read More The Strange Journey
…and women are being raped. See the protest here
Angels of light. “The pounding power of Ringo’s drums. The driving pulse of Paul’s bass. The scorching John Lennon vocal. The gritty guitars of George and John. All of that raw energy comes roaring through in this new mono-to-stereo remix of one of The Beatles’ most powerful early performances. This version of “Money (That’s What… Read More That’s What Promoters Want. And to hell with the cultural and moral impact.
I’m Brennan. I’m an alcoholic. How I got there, why I left there, why I went back, is the story of my life. But it is not the whole story. I’m Brennan. I’m a Catholic. How I got there, why I left there, why I went back, is also the story of my life. But… Read More He lost everything but God’s love
“Everything which comes to pass has been foreseen by God from all eternity, and has been willed or at least permitted by Him“. ”Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Prov. 19:21) Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange “Nothing comes to pass either in the material or in the spiritual… Read More Garrigou-Lagrange: Everything Which Comes to Pass is Foreseen…
[Photo: Religious Art in Film. Franco Zefferilli’s Jesus of Nazareth.] The Easter cards we see in ordinary stores give little hint of the shock of the disciples at seeing the empty tomb and beholding the risen Christ. And certainly not of the terrible trauma and ignominy which Our Lord had just gone through: the betrayal,… Read More Christ’s Victory Over Death and Postmodern Despair
Glen Scrivener reacts to Dominic Sandbrook’s recent comments on LBC regarding Tom Holland’s views on Islam. They concern a line Holland said on the Triggernometry podcast. See Sandbrook and Holland here. Scrivener highlighted Holland’s approach to examining the origins of Islam, emphasizing the importance of historical context in understanding the religion. Contrasting Reception: The reception… Read More Historians Clash Over Islam
Back to the Gospel. I’m aware of what some might criticize as his own form of soft theological and political Leftism, but Bono is certainly correct to this extent: Yahweh. U2 “Take these shoes-Click clacking down some dead end street-Take these shoes-And make them fit-Take this shirt-Polyester white trash made in nowhere-Take this shirt-And make… Read More Crazy political zealotry, Far Left and Right.
“Flagrant public executions of protesters by the thousands by the Iranian regime in January moved residents to cheer on the initial days of attacks by U.S. and Israeli forces as Operation Epic Fury began on Feb. 28.” — More U.S. Bishops Call for Confronting Antisemitism Recognizing our bond with the Jewish people as brothers and… Read More Few Care For Terror State Iran, Many Hate Jews Viscerally.
The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice because they do not love.” —Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
One need not be rooting for Vladimir Putin (I certainly don’t) to see the corruption game going on in Ukraine with no interference from the European Union. Here Alastair Campbell, the self-styled “Leftist Internationalist” stands corrected after being schooled by Ukrainian activists about Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Tom Donald is the founder and principal of the London Contemporary School of Piano. A composer, and educator who has revolutionized piano education through his emphasis on chords, improvisation, and real-world experience. A passionate advocate for adult amateur musicians, he helps students tap into their inner genius and achieve musical transformations. Donald has taught over… Read More Can random chords actually make music? If so, how?
If I were in our son’s condition, paralyzed since 2006 and subject to recurring pneumonias and even more grave infections and invasive procedures, I have often thought how depressed I would be. As anyone who knows him would tell you, the light in Jeremy’s eyes, seen here below, may be a little brighter than usual,… Read More Jeremy and Massachusetts
