Postcards from Palookaville

The Miserable Middle Aged Git Rebellion against virtual friendings, updates of the `I'm sitting at home updating my Facebook' level of stimulation, and all-round timewasting grows. Check out the following Newsweek article just brought to my attention by Allen Mickle here . And a revolution needs...

Readers interested in seeing the Alan Bennett sermon actually preached, with full-throttle Anglican intonation, will find a link here . I trust it will be a blessing to many.

Readers interested in seeing the Alan Bennett sermon actually preached, with full-throttle Anglican intonation, will find a link here . I trust it will be a blessing to many.

While it's a few months old (and, who knows? God might have changed his mind in the interim if we follow the path of the professor. We wouldn't want to impose the passing values of November 2008 imperialistically on the biblical text now, would we?) but here's a link to an account of a talk on...

While it's a few months old (and, who knows? God might have changed his mind in the interim if we follow the path of the professor. We wouldn't want to impose the passing values of November 2008 imperialistically on the biblical text now, would we?) but here's a link to an account of a talk on...

The economy is apparently hitting the Playboy pornographic empire, at least according to an article in December in Business Week . The magazine which was famously described as being good for women, providing that women knew what they were good for, is struggling, but before you crack open the...

The economy is apparently hitting the Playboy pornographic empire, at least according to an article in December in Business Week . The magazine which was famously described as being good for women, providing that women knew what they were good for, is struggling, but before you crack open the...

Yesterday afternoon, I came across a little book which, to be honest, I had forgotten I owned: The Justification of God by P T Forsyth, a series of lectures on the theodicy delivered in 1916 at the height of the First World War. It is vintage PTF, packed full of insight and quotable passages. Here...

Yesterday afternoon, I came across a little book which, to be honest, I had forgotten I owned: The Justification of God by P T Forsyth, a series of lectures on the theodicy delivered in 1916 at the height of the First World War. It is vintage PTF, packed full of insight and quotable passages. Here...

David Robertson, of the Free Church of Scotland, brought this article to my attention this morning. Very much of the Roger Scruton `comfort from a false belief is not necessarily false comfort' variety, but still a fascinating read: here