Archive for November, 2007

Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete on Christmas

November 30th, 2007

My mom and I had the great pleasure of hearing Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, author of God at the Ritz, and Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image journal, in Portland on Wednesday evening at an event hosted by the Communion and Liberation movement. They were discussing the issue of Beauty — the sometimes forgotten sister of Truth [...]

“Wounded by Beauty”

November 25th, 2007

Having already had the pleasure of hearing Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete speak–Msgr. Albacete, by the way, is the Godspy spiritual adviser–here’s an event in Portland, Oregon that we are very much hoping to attend:
Wounded By Beauty
Sponsored by: Communion & Liberation
Date: Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Billy Frank Jr Conference [...]

New Author Portraits!

November 19th, 2007

We’ve just added three new Christian author portraits to our Cafe Press page: John Keats, Joseph Conrad, and Oscar Wilde! You can have their familiar faces printed on t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, aprons, mousepads, journals, postcards, and (my personal favorite) a beer stein.
Might make a good Christmas present for the family bibliophile. Of course, if [...]

Micky G as Double D…?

November 7th, 2007

Up until the last disappointing installment, Clan Murphy has been pretty staunch Harry Potter supporters. The movie versions have been entertaining but uneven, and not least because of the woeful, woeful miscasting of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore. The guy can be fantastic (check out his good ol’ boy Big Tobacco CEO in The Insider), but [...]

The Intolerance of the New Atheists

November 4th, 2007

“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization” — that’s the thesis of an insightful and eloquent essay by Theodore Dalrymple, a physician and non-believer. He politely takes the “New Atheists” (Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, et. al) to task for their shrill militancy, “bad temper,” and general lack of civility or common decency [...]