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Updated my About page. Got more theoretical than it should I suppose. Is mostly a primer for a theory on Monarchy. It is at least a first stab at a justification for Christian Reaction. Hope you enjoy, William   I didn’t bother reading the previous About page before discarding, as I am sure it was … More About page update

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 KJV There is an important feature of any cohering society that we only grazed in our first piece on Tradition. Telos is a much besmirched concept in Modern and PoMo thought. Though in a recent conversation with a … More Tradition, appendix 1: Promisedlandism

Below is an update of my About page. I noticed people were coming to it and cringed at what they might be finding there. My thinking has changed somewhat over the two plus years I have been writing here. +++  ++   +   ++  +++   After more than two years at this blog, I have … More About update

Trad life is so plump and refreshing This is a meditation on Tradition. It will meander. Traditions are often formed through wandering. So deep in a community’s past are the cultural decisions that generated a given tradition that they are forgotten as history. What remains is the social habit, practice, belief, or craft. This goes … More Tradition p1

  Have been busy putting together yet another project. This one is a bigger deal for me than some of the others. I have been producing visual art since childhood, but fairly intently for the last 30 years. I have finally put up and archive/ store for my work. The site includes a blog where … More What is art

I have been in a dark mood over the last number of weeks. The elation of the Trump victory has run its natural course to disappointment. Not just regular disappointment but a deep sense of discouragement at an unexpected hero’s promise and failure to deliver. For though I resisted believing rationally, at some level I bought into … More Black pill blues

Gave a short lecture at my church on the work I have been doing on the Beatitudes over the past few years. The talk was received with some enthusiasm so I am posting it to my Teleolojic podcast. Some sound issues, but it gets better a few minutes in.

Blessed Good Friday to you all. My intention to finish the Lenten series will go unfulfilled. Been stuck on the third Beatitude. The first one that denotes growth. Hmm. Well I will keep at it. Probably a bit ambitious thinking I could crank those stories out with the time I have. So I am posting … More Good Friday

This is the second installment of our Lenten spiritual odyssey based on the Beatitudes. Here is the start: The Blessed; 1 emptiness And here is the revised version of last year’s Lenten study on this beatitude: Discipline of the Beatitudes pt. 3 Sorrow ++++           +++     ++       + … More The Blessed: 2 lacrimosa