After I wrote my recent essay, Tortured Reasoning, I sent copies via email to several friends I thought might be interested in it. A vigorous and eventually testy debate ensued. No, not about torture; these are my friends, after all. Rather, it was about the term “conservative”, both its definition and whether someone who claims [...]
Archive for May, 2009
DC, Vegas, and the New Jerusalem
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | 40 Comments »
A Fish Out In No Man’s Land
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Last summer I taught my fifth iconography class at the Romanian Catholic cathedral in Canton. Every year yields a harvest of fine first icons, varying widely according to the natural ability and experience of the student. But while each of them has been worthy of the Church’s blessing and of private veneration, every year I [...]
