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Hitchens, Stegner, Mortality, and Moderns.

28-Nov-12

can you buy Ivermectin over the counter Sickness very much getting the better of me in the days following Thanksgiving, I spent three days indoors and very nearly all the time in bed. Having a great number of books at my disposal, being in the family house, for whatever inscrutable reason I read Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality on Friday, and Wallace Stegner’s Crossing […]

Bertrand Russell’s Atheist Essays.

14-Sep-11

http://midequalitygroup.co.uk/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2028-10-05 There is a fine little collection of essays about atheism by Bertrand Russell, entitled Why I Am Not A Christian, which I read on subway rides about the city the past week.  It is light reading, and his mature essays are in a lucid style which offers no difficulties (some of his earlier essays, such […]

The Feast of the Conversion of Paul.

25-Jan-11

The wisdom of the old churchmen is shown by this most unusual feast, the Feast of the Conversion of the holy Paul.  It is the only conversion thus enshrined as a feast of the universal church, though many of the saints had conversions of importance.  But Paul’s conversion has a clarity of insight to it […]