Light on Dark Water

The Sunday Night Journal

Written on Sunday, generally published by Monday night, sometimes Tuesday, hardly ever as late as Wednesday. See Journal Archive for entries earlier than those listed below.

And I’m going to clean this page up Real Soon Now.

October 12: Those Mysterious Atheists

October 5: The First Beautiful Thing I Ever Saw

September 28: Hope First

September 21: My Election Prediction

September 14: Ave Maris Stella

September 7: Arguing Conservatism

August 31: Tapeworms and Hurricanes

August 24: Taking A Chance On Love

August 17: A Crack in Everything

August 10: A Few More Notes on Ayn Rand

August 3: Ayn Rand, Crank

July 27: Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion - Three

July 20: Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion - Two

July 13: Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion - One

July 6: Gone To A Better Place

June 29: Cries and Whispers

June 22: Guilty Non-Pleasures

June 15: Standing in Line at the Sinners’ Hospital

June 8: To Know and To Love

June 1: Love. Love. Love.

May 25: A Sudden Case of Liturgical Indifference

May 18: Love and Prayer

May 11: Graduation Day

May 4: Wisdom from Nonsense?

April 27: Men, Women, Sex, and Reality

April 20: Apes With Violins

April 13: Sin, Memory, and Purgatory

April 6: Daniel Dennett: Wrong About God, Wrong About Man

March 30: The Sword

March 23: Believe It Or Not

March 16: Death of a Cat

March 9: Severed Children

March 2: On Not Being an Ex-Protestant

February 24: Desire and Expectation

February 17: Newman’s Dream of Gerontius

February 10: Love Not in Vain: The Open Secret

February 3: The Terrible Severance

January 27: Ingenting: The Death Spasm of Christian Civilization

January 20: We Got To Live Together: A Note on MLK Day

January 13: Anti-Clintonism: A Description of the Symptoms

January 6: Singing With the Choir

December 30: The Secret History of the Sunday Night Journal

December 23: The Shepherd's Complaint

December 16: Movie Roundup, End of Year Edition

December 9: Klaatu the Genocidal Peacenik

December 2: The Dark Door Thrown Open

November 25: My Head Hurts

November 18: Women, Music, and Modernity

November 11: Inappropriate Use of the Word “Inappropriate”

November 4: Fear of Beauty

October 28: Ain't It Grand?

October 21: An Extraordinary Logic: Wild Strawberries

October 14: Complaining of the People

October 7: Cart and Horse and Caritas

September 30: Goodbye to Politics and Culture Wars

September 23: Nature's Indifference?

September 16: Five Books Everyone Should Read

September 9: Prepared to Love

September 2: A Few More Notes on the Question of Doubt

August 26: Such Beauty Can't Disappear

August 19: Pop Music for the Desert Island

August 12: What Keats Didn't Say (and May Not Have Known)

August 5: The Sixty-Forty Ratio

July 29: Provisional Last Word on Harry Potter

July 22: A Vignette

July 15: Idiot Winds

July 8: An Uneasy Fourth

July 1: Reveries of a Mostly Retired Smoker

June 24: Some Anniversaries

June 17: Hey, Bishop, Leave Those Texts Alone

June 10: Movie Roundup, Continued

June 3: Movie Roundup

May 27: A Speculation on Pentecost

May 20: That Longing Which the Aeroplane Cheats

May 13: A Permanent Culture War?

May 6: A Few Notes on The Sirens of Titan

April 30: Homeless Conservatives: Making it Official?

April 22: American Exceptionalism and the Culture War

April 15: Pacifism in the War of Words

April 8: Discovering Traherne (3): On the Cross

April 1: Pontius Pilate and the Infinitely Thin Line

March 25: Discovering Traherne (2)

March 18: Som Great Thing: Discovering Traherne

March 11: Nap Time

March 5: A Glimpse of Moral Common Sense

February 25: Chicken, Egg, Spirit

February 18: Atheistic Evolution: The Plausible Myth

February 11: Joseph Pearce’s Small Is Still Beautiful

February 4: The Liberal Conservative (4)

January 28: Mr. Martin, From The Other Side

January 21: Is Wagner Bad For You?

January 14: A Couple of Miscellaneous But Not Entirely Unrelated Items

January 7: The Liberal Conservative (3)

December 31: Losing the Christmas War

December 24: Merry Christmas

December 17: The Liberal Conservative (2)

December 10: The Liberal Conservative (1a)

December 3: The Liberal Conservative (1)

November 26: Christ the King?

November 19: Hefner and Marilyn

November 12: Funky Town

November 5: Wingless Chickens: Judging the Baby Boomers

October 29: Scary Stuff