A Quiet Normal Life Vox 2008-01-03T11:47:19Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c225252fb1f219/ New but not different. Martin Mess tag:vox.com,2008-01-03:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398ce5d0a0005 2008-01-03T11:47:19Z 2008-01-03T11:47:19Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The other day I received my CD-ROM from New Advent: The Summa, the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Church Fathers, and other odds and ends of ecclesiastic writings. I browsed over to the article on Luther this morning, which was extensive if not bala...

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]]> The Goodbye tag:vox.com,2008-01-01:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cdce000005 2008-01-01T21:57:03Z 2008-01-01T21:57:03Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Goodbye Holidailies

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]]> Hogmanay tag:vox.com,2007-12-31:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cd68ff0001 2007-12-31T23:34:35Z 2007-12-31T23:34:35Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Holidailies

Things I Discovered This Year: Speaking of Faith; Dead Like Me; the GIMP; Scrabulous; Miro. Things I Rediscovered This Year: 3 Fast, 3 Furious;Taoism; King Crimson; Powell & Pressburger; Joan Miro. Best Development in the World of Entertainment: ...

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]]> The Book I Read tag:vox.com,2007-12-30:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cd2f120005 2007-12-30T22:45:50Z 2007-12-30T22:45:50Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Holidailies

When I was a child I was surrounded by books. My father was a reader, and my mother was a reader, and my brother was a reader, and my brother was a reader. Books about Shaw and Russell and Buber and Tillich. Novels by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and Maz...

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]]> The Pause That Refreshes tag:vox.com,2007-12-29:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398ccda5b0004 2007-12-29T23:20:48Z 2007-12-29T23:20:48Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Holidailies

It is one of the comic tragedies of the human condition in the 21st century that we enthusiastically embrace habits while vigorously eschewing disciplines. I came up with that platitude while walking in the woods this afternoon, and thought it mi...

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]]> Big Steve tag:vox.com,2007-12-28:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc95a30005 2007-12-28T23:25:10Z 2007-12-28T23:25:10Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Steve Worowski Holidailies

When I first started doing the Rummage, almost ten years ago, Steve wasn't around. They talked about him: big guy, ran the record department, he was off in South America or somewhere, teaching or something. A few sales later he showed up, and he ...

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]]> The Delicate Prey tag:vox.com,2007-12-27:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cc43090004 2007-12-27T23:43:32Z 2007-12-27T23:43:32Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Pakistan is very far away. It's far enough away that I have no particular right to comment on events there, express meaningless sympathy for its people, analyze the impact of those events either within that nation or in the context of world polit...

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]]> The Long Christmas Dinner tag:vox.com,2007-12-26:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cbf9f40003 2007-12-26T21:52:24Z 2007-12-26T21:52:24Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Holidailies

A glass of champagne is probably the cure for just about anything. It sure made me feel a lot better yesterday. I was exhausted from working twelve hours on Christmas Eve, and by early afternoon the was an intermittent pain in my head and an unpl...

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]]> Two or Three Things I Know About Her tag:vox.com,2007-12-24:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cb59070003 2007-12-24T18:45:44Z 2007-12-24T18:45:44Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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I do not imagine her as a child. Instead I think of her as a bit older, and still unmarried, still parthenos, because she was crippled, deformed, blind, or grotesque. Taught by her condition to be resigned, disciplined, obedient; and also assured...

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]]> Mignonne tag:vox.com,2007-12-23:asset-6a00c225252fb1f21900e398cb12040004 2007-12-23T23:56:24Z 2007-12-23T23:56:24Z chrysostom http://chrysostom.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Holidailies

I would have thought that I had never heard of either Pierre de Ronsard, nor of this poem, Mignonne..., but this can't be true. I have read the book at least twice before, and must have seen the references to it. In fact, I remember very clearly ...

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