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Archive for July, 2008

Science fiction and midwestern regionalism?: Bill Kauffman on Ray Bradbury. I haven’t read Bradbury for a long time but what I remember fits with what Kauffman says: that he uses sci-fi and fantasy to make some very earthy points.
Ross Douthat on the American heresy. Douthat is Catholic and a bit of a prodigy in that [...]

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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – Three
–Maclin Horton

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Diamonds

I have not been writing much here these last several months, as I have been distracted by diamonds.
Baseball diamonds, that is.
This year I had four children on four different teams. The baseball experience varied widely among them, from the comedy of errors in 5 year old Maria’s tee ball games to the quite sophisticated and [...]

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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – Two
–Maclin Horton

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WALL-E

I haven’t been posting or commenting much because I have just gotten through a Little League season with four children on four different teams. It has been baseball every night except Sunday or rainy days.
I will post about the season, and baseball in general, soon.
In the meantime, just a short note about the film WALL-E, [...]

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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – One
–Maclin Horton

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has issued a statement denying that he ever recommended “dual communion” between Eastern Catholics and the Orthodox Church. This raises the obvious question of what exactly he said that was so misconstrued (or mistranslated). No transcript exists, apparently.
And one wonders why it took so long to correct the misunderstanding.
Regarding dual communion, the [...]

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Gone To A Better Place
—Maclin Horton

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Cries and Whispers
—Maclin Horton

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