Homeric epic poems were not originally written but preserved by a tradition of oral composition that made these stories easier to recite (and remember). To appreciate the brilliant technique, it is useful to understand dactylic hexameter, which is used throughout the Iliad, as well as how the various “homeric” texts came down into the texts we know today as the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Casadessus, Buddha, Cioran, W.C. Fields, Charles Baudelaire (PS, the final “s” in fleur de lis is pronounced!)
A year ago I attended Midnight Mass at St. Michael’s Abbey of the Norbertine order in Silverado out here in Orange County. It began with a procession with candles, then continued with the beautiful liturgy going back many hundreds of years.
Almost a lifetime ago now, it seems, I hosted a St. David’s Day meal at my home. It was a quiet Sunday afternoon, and the member of our company preparing the main dishes was Welsh herself, so we not only ate well but authentically.
What manly China has largely succeeded at, however, is not so much the quelling of the plague as pulling the wool over Western eyes with regard to the quelling of the plague. Last week China claimed that 3,333 people had died of the virus.
My question is about your thoughts on what Tim Keller has described as the Catechism of Secularism. These beliefs have so completely dominated our culture that they are like the air we breathe.
God has ordained civil government as an institution of justice in our present world. He also instituted the church as a ministry of grace. The two were meant to compliment and support each other but, in our fallen world, there are times (increasingly in the United States) when they come into conflict and, ultimately, collide with each other.
