What’s going on at other First Things blogs:
The Anchoress : What’s the deal with saints in glass coffins?
Spengler : “The Persians invented chess. What opponent’s move would Ayatollah Khameini anticipate? ”
Secondhand Smoke : Wesley Smith wonders if the dependent elderly are persona non grata in the UK.
Postmodern Conservative : Peter Lawler has some positive, postmodern, and conservative comments on Walt Whitman.
Icons & Curiosities : Sally Thomas shares her summer reading list.
The Revival of Patristics
On May 25, 1990, the renowned patristics scholar Charles Kannengiesser, S.J., delivered a lecture at the annual…
The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics
Last autumn, I spent a few days at my family’s coastal country house in northwestern Spain. The…
The trouble with blogging …
The trouble with blogging, RJN, is narrative structure. Or maybe voice. Or maybe diction. Or maybe syntax.…