“I am not talking about genuine allergies. Everybody should know what those are. You serve your guest ground up peanuts in that Thai dish you’ve been wanting to try out, and forty-five minutes later he looks like the Michelin tire boy, and the dinner party concludes late that evening in the ER. That’s an allergy, …
If Letters Were Bullets . . .
Refried Revoice: No post in particular: In your most recent Plodcast you talked about Revoice and mentioned the idea of Eros (facing each other) and Friendship (side by side). I was reminded of That Hideous Strength: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are …
A New Webinar from Rachel
Deep Potluck Doctrine
“The central pastoral issue of the New Testament was a dietary one—whether Jews and Gentiles could eat together. And if the apostle Paul fought so long and hard on this one—to keep the body of Christ from being divided this way—when the issue really was created by the laws of the Old Testament, how much …
Growing Corn on an Asteroid
Introduction: Let us accept for a moment the supposition—which I do not actually accept, by the way—that the Revoice organizers meant well. Let us assume honest misunderstandings all around. That is still no reason to let the misunderstandings stand, or to let them go unaddressed. This is because at some point, when confusion is in …
A Three-Pound Tarantula
Introduction: After I posted The Creed of a Happy Warrior, I was contacted by a friend who was concerned about the murkiness of one of the paragraphs. Although he didn’t put it this way, being a gentleman as he is, in the place of pellucid argumentation that made one think of high mountain lakes, he …
And the Thicker the Better
“In these our postmodern times, the relativists in the Church want to mix the Apostles’ Creed up with about five gallons of paint thinner. But we must learn to take our Creed thick” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 155).
Because Writing *Is* a High and Lonely Destiny
Not to Mention the Fork
“Saying grace with a full and sincere heart sanctifies the whole smorgasbord, even it is the kind you find in a cheap restaurant, and even if there is enough MSG in the pans there to make your spoon taste pretty good” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 153).
Creed of a Happy Warrior
Introduction: A friend recently asked me for my thoughts on what it means to be a happy warrior. His take was that I was one, and wanted my views on what goes into it. I thought the assessment was fair enough, but I had not really put the question to myself in those terms, and …