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Blogging will be light for the rest of the week. My wife is having surgery tomorrow; it’s a fairly standard procedure and we don’t anticipate any problems, but she’ll be staying at the hospital for at least one night. Prayers and good vibes would be appreciated. Read more

Conservatives used to have field days mocking political correctness – the urge to scrutinize every cultural product for anything that might conceivably offend the sensibilities of some aggrieved group. But more recently conservatives have adopted their own versions of p.c. This can take the form of bewailing alleged discrimination against conservatives in the media or Read more

Derek the Ænglican of Haligweorc writes on the “plain sense” of scripture, with more to come. “As with much else in modern life, hippies spoiled the fun for the rest of us”: Millinerd writes from Mount Athos in Greece! (here and here) Theo Hobson, whose work we’ve discussed here before, says that liberal Anglo-Catholicism is Read more

Thanks to the Minuteman Library Network, I was able to get my hands on a copy of Bill Kauffman’s new book Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals. A sequel of sorts to his earlier work America First!, Look Homeward America is not so much a sustained political argument but a series of profiles Read more

I just finished Stephen Finlan’s book Problems with Atonement, a radical critique of traditional accounts of how the cross of Jesus saves us. I mean “radical” in the strict sense; Finlan, rather than trying to provide an atonement theory acceptable to moderns (or postmoderns), seeks to pull it up by the roots. In Finlan’s account, Read more

The election of Katharine Jefferts Schori as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church continues to reverberate. Taken not only as a ratification of women priests and bishops, but as a ratification of the election of V. Gene Robinson, an openly non-celibate gay man, to the episcopacy, the election of Bishop Schori seems to have pushed Read more

Superman Returns. An enjoyable couple hours of escapism. I agree with some critics that it crosses the line in places between paying homage to the Christopher Reeve/Richard Donner films and slavishly imitating them (right down to lifting dialogue and certain iconic scenes). Brandon Routh is eerily reminiscient of Christopher Reeve. Kate Bosworth is pretty forgettable Read more

We went back to the Church of the Advent yesterday. Here is the sermon the rector preached. I thought it was a good one. Read more

I’ve been reading Thomas P. Rausch’s introduction to Christology called Who Is Jesus? and enjoying it quite a bit. One of the points he emphasizes is the importance of keeping the historical Jesus in view when doing Christology. Any Christology worth its salt has to be connected to and rooted in the person of Jesus Read more

So says this guy. I do have to say that the Supremes’ ruling from the other day is one of the more heartening political events of recent memory. P.S. Duke University law prof Walter Dellinger calls it “the most important decision on presidential power and the rule of law ever. Ever.” Read more