Logismoi

An expression in the Prologue of St Benedict’s Rule struck me as interesting today. I had looked for my usual reading copy—Abbot Justi...

My friend, the infamous dissident blogger known as ‘ the Ochlophobist ’, posted the following comment on Facebook a few weeks ago: ‘I...

This was an article I wrote for our school newsletter, Remarkable Providences . I have corrected a passage which got seriously distorted...

In yesterday’s post on St Scholastica ( here ), I linked to a letter ( here ) that I had reposted from the blog of the RC priest, Mark Kirby...

A quick glance at this blog should be enough to demonstrate that I’m not big on the modern age. I certainly try not to idealise the past, b...

In his characteristically Williamsian history of the Church, The Descent of the Dove , Charles Williams observes: Egypt had yielded another ...

At the monthly meeting of our local C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society last night, one of the works we discussed was Lewis’s short lyric, ‘Th...

Today, 11 November on the Church’s calendar, we celebrate the memory of St Martin of Tours (316-397), according to Orthodox America ‘the fi...

If one follows the Church’s calendar, the appointed reading from St Benedict’s Rule for today ( RB 6), concludes with the following statem...

Judging by the fruits of a Google search, the last sentence of Alisdair MacIntyre’s already classic work on moral philosophy, After Virtue ,...