"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Scott Weeman lead a webinar at Ave Maria Press as part of the launch of his new book, Twelve Steps and the Sacraments: A Catholic journey through Recovery:
He was also recently on Catholic Answers Live and you can listen to that interview here.
This weekend, our San Diego C.S. Lewis reading group will be meeting to discuss Chapter 4 of “The Four Loves”, which is the chapter which speaks about “Friendship”. In preparation for this, I watched the following cracking lecture from Dr. Louis Markos. It certainly gave me a lot to think about, including the question: “Should I go to events more often wearing a tux?”
Together with a couple of guys from the Council of Man, I’m reading through the Bible this year. We’ve just finished reading through the genealogies of Genesis.
The last time I read through Genesis, I found it really helpful to visualize the genealogies. So, if anyone else out there is reading through the Bible this year, hopefully you’ll find this helpful:
Since we’re now finally coming to the end of the Christmas season…
Hand on heart, there are some parts of the whole chastity movement which I find really annoying. For me, the chief offender here is “the modesty talk”. Now, to be clear, I have heard some excellent talks on modesty. However, I’ve also sat and listened to many which I thought were asinine, prudish and made me roll my eyes until I felt dizzy.
This week I came across this video by Emily Wilson where she expresses similar frustrations. She too gets irritated when the primary reason given for girls dressing modestly is to not lead men to lustful thoughts. She thinks that the primary reason for dressing modestly lies somewhere else…
Emily gets it. Emily dresses classily. Be like Emily.
Given that we’ve just celebrated Christmas and the New Year is just around the corner, it seems a fitting time to post this video from Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’ stepson, who gave this sermon at Liberty University back in 2011…