Some days ago it was brought to my attention that a link on this site was broken. The link was broken because my essays on Eastern Orthodoxy had disappeared from the internet. Sorting out the problem turned into a week’s worth of work. I couldn't just restore the link, I had to reformat the essays …
Continue reading Good Fences (and their absence) and Good Neighbors
The previous six essays form a six piece monograph. Since everything comes up in reverse order, you may see the last one first. This is just a note that you might want to go back to the introductory post that introduces the six essays. It can be found here. Happy reading.
This morning I was asked why I haven’t written something condemning white supremacy in the United States and saying something about the Charlottesville march, the General Lee statue, etc. There’s a very good reason for it, imho, but before I get to that I will say that I find the state of affairs to be …
I’ve been attending St. Thomas Episcopal Church for a while. (Yes, I’m Orthodox, there’s a story, but that’s between me and my confessor and not for thee general public, so don’t ask.) Pretty consistently after the sermons (by Fr Jay Denne), I think, “That’s not how I would have approached the text.” In nearly every …
Been thinking and writing over the last couple of weeks. The result is four new essays on salvation which I'll post over the next few days. A couple of them might seem a little odd outside the context of the set, but the four of them together were too long for a single essay. Thanks …
Thanks to my brother, T.K., the old Just Another Jim address now points toward the WordPress site where this blog is hosted. So, for those of you who haven't gotten around to updating your link to this site, you get a reprieve. Both addresses work. Thanks T.K.!
Sometimes I mistake myself for a humorist. A good humorist can be acerbic without being small-minded. (Don't forget that before "mean" meant "hurtful" or "offensive," it meant "small-minded.") My humor too often is small-minded and thus unintentionally veers off in the direction of mean-spiritedness. Here's my own means-spiritedness measuring stick: Would I be embarrassed to meet a …
I have edited the previous post (about the new header photos). Since it's inconvenient and time consuming to continually hit the "refresh" button on the browser just to look at the header photos, I turned the previous post into a gallery post with all twelve photos included.
First there was a Costa cruise ship that ran aground while the captain was evidently flirting with a blond lady. Yesterday there was a fire in a Costa cruise ship engine room, leaving the ship helpless in pirate waters north of the Seychelles. So before all the cruise ships sink to the bottom of the …
Changing header photographs is a real pain with WordPress. I still haven't found a great solution, but I did decide to switch themes. The new theme loads a random header photograph each time a page is brought up. One can also click on the picture to change it. What's missing is the text to explain …
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