The View From Mars Hill, II: Christian Friendship
Now, “brother” and “friend” are or at least used to be rather exclusive terms. They did not refer to just anyone, much less everyone.
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The View from Mars Hill: Love and Hate in the Cities of Man, Part 1 (of 3)
This is the text of a talk presented at a conference, in Waterford, Wisconsin, attended by mostly Lutheran pastors plus a sprinkling of heretics and one papist, arranged by my friend Pastor David Ramirez.
Additional Summer School 2023 Readings, Updated 06/17
David Hume’s essay on The Original Contract has been added. Passages Added from Plato and Aristotle. In addition to the assigned readings, the following passages and fragments will be referred to. More will be added in the coming days. P
Rereading a Classic
Some decades ago the psychologist Mortimer Adler produced one of his many cultural “how-to” books with the preposterous title, How to Read a Book. If only Adler had first considered the question of how to write a book, he might never have indulged his vanity to the point of telling people they were only permitted to read the way that Mortimer Adler reads.
News from Somewhere
The “somewhere” is Nafpaktos (which the Venetians, when they acquired the town, renamed Lepanto) on the Corinthian Gulf.
Magdalen Nabb II: Death of an Englishman
While we are waiting for people to acquire and peruse The Marshall’s Own Case, we can talk briefly about the series. The first novel is as good a way to begin as anything .
Magdalen Nabb
A few days ago, in the discussion of the Nashville school shootings, I suggested that if people wan’t to gain a more serious understanding of the transgender world, they might not do better than to read the seventh of Magdalen Nabb’s detective mysteries set in Florence (not South Carolina).
“ALL WE ASK IS TO BE LET ALONE”
The cost of living continues to rise as we of the working class awake to “another day, another dollar,” knowing full well we must do so in order to support ourselves, our families, and the growing number of unemployed who rely on us for their “benefits.”
Cobra-chickens, Roadkill, and Ingredients
It is not surprising that where Canada geese are protected, they defile golf courses, beaches, and attack cyclists in parks. One of my coworkers from Ottawa refers to them as cobra-chickens. Low flying slow heavy geese do however save my pride at the end of a lackluster deer hunting season.
