The American longing for a Great Awakening
I’ve been calling for a Great Awakening for a while now, and it may have started in Kentucky.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been calling for a Great Awakening for a while now, and it may have started in Kentucky.
Continue readingCelebration of the Epiphany Today, the 6th of January, is the traditional day for the celebration of the Epiphany. In many places, such as the Vatican itself, the Epiphany is still celebrated today. In the U.S. since 1970, the Epiphany is celebrated on the first Sunday after 1 January. That
Continue readingWishing You and Yours a Happy End to the Christmas Season on 12th Night Today, 5 January, is the 12th and final day of the 12 Days of Christmas. Historically, tonight is also the Eve of the Epiphany. Note that in the U.S., since 1970, the celebration of the Epiphany
Continue readingOn the 11th Day of Christmas, the Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton On certain days of the year, including on the 11th day of Christmas, the Vatican allows the various dioceses to choose their own topic of worship for that day. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has
Continue readingOn the 10th Day of Christmas, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus Sit nomen Dómini benedíctum Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sæculum Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore – Psalm 113:2 The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, also
Continue readingOn the 9th Day of Christmas, a Feast in honor of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen Today is celebrated the Feasts of two Saints, Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen. Both lived in the 4th century in what is today Turkey. Both are “Doctors of the Church,” people
Continue readingNew Year’s Day 2023 Anno Domini & on this, the 8th Day of Christmas, the Solemnity of Mary, and in days gone by, the Feast of the Circumcision and the Feast of Fools Welcome to the 1st day of the Year 2023 and the 8th Day of Christmas. In modern
Continue readingWhy do we celebrate the New Year on January 1 when, for most of recorded history, we held the New Year to start in March? What role did the Catholic and Anglican celebrations of Christmas play in the creation of our modern New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec. 31? Answers
Continue readingWe have just had three “Originalist” Supreme Court opinions released within the space of a week, all of which are of great importance in their own right, and taken together, mark a seismic shift towards a return to the Constitution of our Founders that I never expected to see in
Continue readingDennis Prager explains why, although Passover is a Jewish celebration, it nevertheless has important (and very positive) worldwide meaning: Happy Passover! Image: A man reciting a blessing over a cup of wine at a Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland (cropped). Yad Vashem collection.
Continue readingIt’s time (again) to call out the kerfuffle over a man joining a women’s swim team and the usual leftist ignorance about what ended slavery. When I prepare my illustrated edition, I usually have a category of memes that I save on my computer as “stupid leftists.” Sometimes, though, I
Continue readingEvery year, I publish a variation of my Passover post, with the latest enemy of freedom starring as Pharaoh. This year, Biden is Pharaoh. For roughly 3,500 years, Jews have been telling and retelling the story of Passover — which is also the story of the world’s first revolt against
Continue readingMy Australian friend “Nodrog,” has been thinking about God’s role in a civilized world and, especially in America. Here’s what he has to say. The predicament of the US at the moment seems to be the best argument for a belief in God yet presented. I’ve gone right up to
Continue readingThese are a few things that struck me as interesting during my wanderings through the internet today. If the Times like a historical book, bet against it. I’ve always liked a good historical novel. A knowledgeable author with a good imagination can make the past come alive. Indeed, it was reading
Continue readingAn article about suicide suggested that religious faith matters to our ability to ride out unhappiness, rather than yielding to the impulse of the grave. Last week, the Free Beacon ran a very sad article about the fact that American suicide rates keep increasing: Every year since the turn of
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