Avoiding the Snob Option

“At the end of the day, refined hedonism just creates snobs. Sure, they don’t find their pleasures in carousing, snorting cocaine, chasing skirts, and whatnot, but rather in taking a stroll through a miniature Japanese garden on a pleasant summer evening, in order to contemplate geometric proofs and chess moves of a higher order. And they are insufferable.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39

Content Cluster Muster [06-01-23]

Some of you have noticed how incomplete this Cluster was. This was a function of a cancelled flight from Heathrow back to the States. Originally, I was going to finish this when we got back from our Israel trip, but alas. We got back a day later, and the Content Cluster much shorter. Ah, well. …

Elijah Went Up in a Whirlwind. We Landed in a Whirlwind.

Sea of Galilee from our hotel room . . . We landed in Tel Aviv in the morning, prepared to see what countless pilgrims before us have seen. There are many things to see, of course. Tel Aviv is right next to old Joppa, where Peter saw the vision of the unclean animals in the …