Category Archives: God

And the Angel Raphael explains to him the whole puzzling business: Time may come, when Men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare; And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Was Satan the father of file-sharing? Listen to his own words on apple-sharing. Then decide. ‘O fruit divine, Sweet of thyself, but much more sweet thus cropt, Forbidd’n here, it seems, as onely fit For Gods, yet able to make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been rereading Dorothy Sayers’ translation of Dante, which is astonishingly good in a style of virtuosity that could not now be more old-fashioned. Her efforts to reproduce the rhyme scheme of the original, as well as much of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was interviewing a prominent Catholic intellectual, shall we say, for my programme on the next Pope, and he explained the attitude to contraception so beautifully that I must slice this out of the transcript. You really have to admire … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The missing testament is in stock again. Continue reading →

In 1561, a man named John Veron published a book called the Frutefull Treatise of Predestination and Providence … against the Swynysche Gruntings of the Atheystes and Epicures of Oure Time. Not much hope of finding tht on Amazon, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Things my friend the vicar would say if he had only thought of them: “You cannot wave your unread bible and scare me. I know its larger story and I will tear you a new biblical asshole.” From the rather … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the minor wonders of the Empire is that a rich man in America can not only muy more things than the richest men of the past could dream of; he can buy servants that were once the prerogative … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just a throwaway link from tnh but this is a lovely piece of work, and shows what libraries can do on the web if they are so inclined. It makes a good illustrated primer to one thesis in Dr Longley’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A Miracle, is what Pat Robertson told his audience to pray for, after the Supreme Court legalised liberal sex: “One justice is 83-years-old, another has cancer and another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to … Continue reading → Continue reading →