A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Links

  • Avdat

    I’m very happy to find out that friend of this blog Marvin Lindsay, formerly of Ivy Bush fame, has returned to the world of blogging! Marvin also recently published a really good op-ed in his local paper on Christians in politics. Read more

  • Links of note

    Steven Riddle at Flos Carmeli is discussing Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Cons, here, here, and here. Camassia on Christians and political protest, here and here. In the American Conservative symposium on “right and left” that I mentioned recently, onservative writer Heather Mac Donald took issue with the allegedly widespread assumption that one has to be religious Read more

  • Follow-up on creation, natural evil, etc.

    Just wanted to call your attention to some of the excellent comments on these two posts. I haven’t had time to respond to all of them, but I’m really glad to get comments of such caliber here. (Of course, the post on booze has generated more comments than either of them.) Also, see this discussion Read more

  • Warblogging at FT

    The First Things blog has come alive over the last day or so with posts from several contributors beyond the usual entries from Richard John Neuhas and Jody Bottum. Currently there’s a lively debate about the current war(s) going on with Ross Douthat taking what I would call a sober just war perspective, Frederica Mathewes-Green Read more

  • Medieval Irish psalter found in a bog!

    Uncovered by a construction worker, apparently dating from between 800-1000 A.D. Story here. Read more