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New Media New Ideas

Watch out for some new stuff coming up this Fall. In October my weekly half hour radio show More Christianity will premier on Catholic radio in South Carolina and across some of the stations nationwide with Ave Maria Radio. I’ll also be starting a weekly e-newsletter called FaithWorks–this will be a short, punchy piece of writing each [...]

Who Are You to Judge???

Whenever I stir up the pot by writing about those who say they are ‘spiritual but not religious’ the combox fills up with the indignant comments from people who never actually address the points I make, but instead they stomp around in a self righteous air of high dudgeon defending themselves with sentimental arguments which [...]

What Ho Jeeves!

I have had a little vacation in the damp lands and had a very wonderful time. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. But getting back to the USA and getting back to the rough and tumble of blogging and being a parish priest and a husband and father and getting [...]

Noonan on Fluke

Peggy Noonan on Fluke What a fabulously confident and ingenuous-seeming political narcissist Ms. Fluke is. She really does think—and her party apparently thinks—that in a spending crisis with trillions in debt and many in need, in a nation in existential doubt as to its standing and purpose, in a time when parents struggle to buy [...]

Tale of Two Nations

After witnessing the Democratic and Republican conventions, and watching the polls for Romney and Obama it seems increasingly clear to me that our country is fundamentally divided. The polls have the two candidates running neck and neck. It seems that exactly half the citizens are in favor of one and the other half of the [...]

Literary Converts and Connections

I’m sorry not to have been blogging much from the damp lands, but with a combination of spotty internet connections, time spent visiting with family and friends, and time just relaxing, I have not been able to blog as much as I would like. One of the maddening things about England is the traffic, the [...]

Oxford

Here in England a most terrible catastrophe….the laptop wouldn’t connect to the internet…but finally in Oxford we were able to get connected. We recovered from jet lag on the Isle of Wight visiting friends and old haunts. I returned to visit the two parish churches where I was an Anglican vicar and was not surprised [...]

This is a Hard Saying

When some polls reveal that 45% of American Catholics don’t believe in transubstantiation, and prefer to believe that the bread and wine are symbols of Christ’s body and blood, we do well to remember this anecdote re-told in one of Flannery O’Connor’s letters: I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends [...]

What I Love About England

On the eve of my first visit back to England after my return to South Carolina, here, from the SOMH archives is what I love about England: Walking the South Downs Way with a black labrador. The Long Man of Wilmington. Visiting castles. Fawlty Towers. The North Cornwall Coastal path. Sausages. Mustard. Sticky Toffee Pudding. [...]

England Again

Mrs Longenecker and I are off to the damp lands for a week or so.  There is a family wedding, so we’ll be jumping on a plane in Charlotte on Monday for a quick trip. We’ll be based in Oxford for a few days next week, and I’ll be celebrating Mass for my old friend [...]