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The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
The Wilsonian Empire
The empire of our good friend Clyde Wilson is spreading. Not only does it encompass Shotwell Publishing but it now includes Reckonin, a Southern political website developed by his daughter, which just put up a revised and expanded version of my off-the-cuff piece, “What is To Be Done?”
Poems of the Week: Light Verse and Doggerel
“The Profane Ballad of Ecclesiastical Reform”
There’s only way with recalcitrant clerks,
Saith experience under the sun:
“The Profane Ballad of Ecclesiastical Reform”
There’s only way with recalcitrant clerks,
Saith experience under the sun:
Born out of Due Time, By Ched P. Rayson, Chapter VII
“Listen, professor. You and me are not exactly two peas in a pod–more like an English pea and a Swede—you’d probably call it a rutabaga—but I size you up from the first. You don’t belong here, and I don’t mean just in Nadir. You waste your time reading, but in some way you belong more to my world than to the world (pointing to the dead television screen) that’s on that thing. I know you’ll take care of yourself. Some of these guys do not mean you nothing good.”
Crazy Town
In Fear, the latest spasm of gossip and fear-mongering by the infamous (among people of sense and decency) Bob Woodward, the gullible American public is given a portrait of the Trump White House as a cross between Bedlam and the palace of Caligula. Trump supporters are outraged.
How Did Ex-CIA Czar John Brennan Get Into The Company?
I laughed when I read ex-CIA Czar John Brennan’s gripe that taking away his security clearance was “part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics.” I once had a security clearance. Although not as high as his, it was pretty high, Top Secret-Special Intelligence. When I was training to be a Russian linguist and radio intercept operator, 1978-89, the FBI talked to everybody in my background, asking such questions as: Did you ever vote for the Communist Party-USA? They talked to my next door neighbor, and receive a glowing report. “He’s been...
The Road from Damascus, Part I, By Charles C. Yost
From the beginning, the goal that Dr. Fleming and I envisioned for this series was self-knowledge through discovery of the Christians from whom we have come to be alienated by schism. Let us try to understand, then, how it was that brethren and disciples of Jesus Christ became strangers to one another.
Looking for Mr. Jefferson, Conclusion
I have always thought that Jefferson’s advocacy of the separation of church and state was in part inspired by his distaste for the political power of the Yankee clergy. Remember, the famous letter about “the wall of separation” was addressed to a group of Baptists in Connecticut, who were independent of that State’s established Puritan church. One can still find die-hard Calvinists who denounce Jefferson as an atheist. For some reason they never mention that John Adams became a Unitarian. Through the 19th century Jefferson remained a very popular symbol among the people and occasionally among writers, but New...
Poems of the Week: Two by Frost
A Lutheran pastor from Texas suggested the two poems by Frost. The first makes a wonderful pair to Clyde Wilson’s piece on Jefferson
A Lutheran pastor from Texas suggested the two poems by Frost. The first makes a wonderful pair to Clyde Wilson’s piece on Jefferson
Take Five: The Scandalous Pope
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences [that is, scandals, stumbling blocks] will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
