My first icon is still in progress (and has been on hold for far too long), but I tend to think it's a bit better than anything you'll see from Rupnik...

She is a stereotype wrapped in a caricature and covered with silly sauce. This is typical of today's ideological technocratic mediocrity: try to create panic about a vague and questionable potential crisis while ignoring (and, ironically, adding to) the ongoing and very real

This third album by The Smile—consisting of 2/5ths of Radiohead (Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood) and drummer Tom Skinner—came out a year ago. It's probably my favorite of the three, although each is excellent. No surprise, the lyrics are full of angst and despair and all that

Yes, the enthusiasm! And the photo captures it: the synodal joy, the processed wonder, the inclusive ecstasy! In comparison, the Day of Pentecost in the Upper Room looked like a wake at a Jesuit retirement community!

From an excellent @cworldreport essay by @MatthewBecklo: What exactly were these proto-Gnostics “dreaming” about? Jude, interestingly enough, doesn’t examine and dismantle their beliefs in the manner of Irenaeus’s Against Heresies a hundred years later (as important as this kind

True and important. Which is why my office/library/study is in a perpetual state of, um, use.

Whenever I'm at the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, I think: "This is what Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Smyth, and all the rest worked so hard to save, preserve, uphold, and share!" Not.

What is it with Dems and pumpkins?

DeJohnette's discography is staggering in both quantity and quality. Remarkable musician. His trio albums with Keith Jarrett and Gary Peacock are among my favorites. But there is so much. Revisiting some of them today. R.I.P.

I'm not cranky, I'm angry. I'm not beautiful, I'm handsome. I'm not cynical, I'm realistic. I'm not unwashed, I'm unkempt. I'm not mean, I'm sarcastic. I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector. I'm not ignoring you, I'm self-caring. I'm not cold; I lost my key to the house.

After two days of heavy rain and a long stretch of high winds, the sun steps back into the spotlight. Or, is the spotlight.

Prayer is one of those mysterious actions that everyone knows about—how many people can honestly say they’ve never uttered a prayer?—but is strangely elusive when it comes to being defined. There are so many aspects of prayer, both external and internal, that the heart of prayer

As usual, @ThomasReeseSJ laments that orthodox priests refuse to capitulate to the dominant culture, especially re: sexual morality. And, of course, he never mentions fidelity to Christ, dogma/doctrine, the deposit of faith, etc. His golden calf consists of condoms,

GK described 2025 in 1908: "To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania. ... It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if

"She knew. I didn't." This man is not a "Dad". He's a brainwashed, semi-cognizant fool. I suspect his other half wears the cultural pants, butters the emotional bread, and tells him what to feel (as he clearly isn't interested in thinking).

Meanwhile, @TinaKotek, @RonWyden, @RepDexterOR and Co. insult and mock—like petty children—anyone who points out the actual state of Portland and places in Oregon. They've had DECADES to address this and many other problems, but they have only made things much worse. Their

Huh. That's still a thing? Never have. Never will.

More from @cworldreport on the violence, destruction, and persecution in Nigeria. We posted this late yesterday:

A Democrat in Oregon is someone who demands more taxes, money, and regulation to control unproven, future events, while refusing to acknowledge and address the obvious crises of social decay, political corruption, cultural collapse, educational failure, technocratic ineptness,

"Run! It's a fascist fruit!"

Meanwhile, in the front yard, just outside my office door...