Monthly Archives: September 2019

J’accuse

Posted on Wednesday, 25 September, 2019 by

“J’Accuse…!” was an open letter published on 13th January 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore by the writer Émile Zola. His issue was what came to be known in France as L’Affaire Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a Jewish artillery captain in the … Continue reading →

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Science and Faith, a Warning

Posted on Saturday, 21 September, 2019 by

I have been haunted all day by the article Darwinism Is Dead, Now What? Towards A Rational Spirituality. We seem to have a compare-and-contrast exercise between materialistic atheism – Dawkins style – and the kinds of Christianity we sometimes encounter … Continue reading →

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“The old Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church”

Posted on Wednesday, 18 September, 2019 by

My attention was drawn to Fr Hunwicke’s article The Anglican Patrimony. I find most of what this priest writes as irrelevant to my life as mine would be to him, but there is something here that provokes me to comment. … Continue reading →

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“Catholicism made me Protestant”

Posted on Thursday, 12 September, 2019 by

I would like to draw your attention to an article that has appeared in First Things. I had better not reproduce it for copyright reasons, but there is no paywall. Catholicism made me Protestant. Read it there. I should attempt … Continue reading →

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Hiraeth

Posted on Thursday, 12 September, 2019 by

I don’t speak Welsh, but I came across the word Hiraeth as I was doing my daily scan of Facebook. The posting gave a definition of this word: Homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which … Continue reading →

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