Bewar There exists a memoir entitled Of Farming and Classics, which to judge from the title seemed like something I might find relevant. I wrote a review of it for the University Bookman.
Tag Archives: Augustine
Farming and Classics.
01-Jan-13An unusually bad essay crossed my computer screen the other day, by Peter Kreeft, who is apparently a kind of figure in Conservative Catholic circles. To give a sense of what sort of person he is, supposedly he was asked whether a Catholic could be a liberal, and he said it was “a very challenging […]
I am Starting to Hate This.
06-Jul-11There are a great number of things I love about the Catskills – a friend was just enthusing to me that she could see the constellation Delphinus from my cabin, and I know that you cannot see Delphinus from everywhere in this wasteful age. I love listening to the animals at night and the storms […]
I’ve been impressed recently by the intelligence, articulateness, and unapologetically rakish character of Christopher Hitchens, and curiosity about and respect for the man prompted me to take a look at the fashionable atheist books of the day, beginning with his God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. As is always the case with modern […]
The Feast of the Conversion of Paul.
25-Jan-11The 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 […]
Saint Augustine and Religious Empiricism.
20-Mar-13http://civilwarbummer.com/general-shermans-brothers-or-all-in-the-family/charles-ewing/ There was a little bit of Facebook hullabaloo over this Tuesday’s march against gay marriage in D.C., which is being promoted by Catholic bishops. As usual, the bishops going out of their way to prevent non-Catholics from getting things like hospital visitation rights is a good indicator of the general fact that if you want […]