Month: July 2006

• Dorothy Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning

  That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of opinion is wholly favorable. Bishops air their opinions about economics; biologists, about metaphysics; inorganic chemists, about theology; the most irrelevant…

• The Liturgy of Fathers

  God walked in Eden in the cool of the day. A Father ventures into the son’s world to enjoy his son’s work from that day.  The father, now resting from his own work, the garden,  loves to see how his son’s work adds to it.  The son lives inside his father’s work, while adding his…

• The World Behind The Bush

  In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.   But Adam created the world,  when he crept behind the bush to hide from God.  This was the first moment when a mortal chose a place where God is not, and created that place in the instant of so choosing it  — the diabolical…

• Purgation Visits In The Night

  Are you weary yet? I am. Then rest. I don’t know how to rest. Then die. I don’t know how to die. Just love your friends. I have no friends. Then you’re not weary yet.